Esse trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar Materiais Didáticos (MDs) de ensino de Português Brasileiro como Língua Estrangeira (PBLE) no que se refere à forma como pontos-chave da gramática do Português Brasileiro Contemporâneo ...

This thesis explores the process of gentrification in the United States’ most populous city, and particularly in its largest borough, Brooklyn. This process has brought about a change to the socio-economic composition of ...

Med et forfatterskap som rommer over tyve verker utgjør Christiansen en betydningsfull stemme i samtidslitteraturen. Denne analysen er den første lengre akademiske analysen av Rune Christiansens forfatterskap. Med inspirasjon ...

This thesis explores modalities of time in Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays (1970) and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011). It examines how temporality is thematised in story ...

Eventyrsjangeren har lenge blitt forbundet med enkle plott rensket for skurrende elementer og med konservative budskap som har en moralsk oppdragende funksjon. De fleste oppfatter dessuten eventyret som utelukkende ...

Iver Neumann begynte sin akademiske karriere som Russland-forsker, og selv om han senere har utvidet sitt repertoar av studieområder kraftig har han hele tiden beholdt også en interesse for Russland, både landets historie ...

The story is an explicit motif in Ali Smith’s Hotel World (2001) and How to Be Both (2014), two novels that experiment with the possibilities of narrative voice and explore how the act of storytelling restores the characters’ ...

This study will discuss history as essentially a narrative practice. Through omission and selection, the narratives of history can shape what, and who, is considered real. This study is concerned with investigating the ...

Homme polymorphe et plasticien, Raymond Queneau fut le co-fondateur de l’Oulipo. Notre objet d’étude, les Cent mille milliards de poèmes (1961), marque l’aube de l’ère oulipienne et constitue un ouvrage poétique combinatoire ...

La presente tesis analiza las representaciones literarias de la tierra y de la mujer, y los vínculos que afloran entre ellas al calor de la lucha por el territorio, en textos poéticos de las escritoras chilenas Gabriela ...

Denne masteroppgaven analyserer konkurrerende diskurser om polsk identitet i Lov og rettferdighets partiets (PiS) politiske prosjekt. Oppgaven retter søkelys på innflytelsen som hovedaktørenes idéer, virkelighetsoppfatninger ...

This thesis sets out to examine women’s organizing in contemporary Russia in the context of ambivalent state policies regarding women’s issues and civil society. With Putin’s return to power after a wave of protests in ...

Hvordan engasjerer litteraturen seg i verden gjennom språket? Dette spørsmålet går som en rød tråd gjennom denne masteren som undersøker Jean-Paul Sartre og Roland Barthes tanker om litteratur. I 1948 ga Sartre ut Qu’est-ce ...

This thesis explores the conditions that constitute and uphold the power hierarchy between the sexes, as emphasized by the two novels The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Power by Naomi Alderman. Both belonging ...

Denne oppgaven er en undersøkelse av sjangre og grenseposisjoner i Anne Carsons Autobiography of Red. Verket tar utgangspunkt i den arkaiske poeten Stesikhoros’ Geryoneis, en gjenfortelling av myten om monsteret Geryon. ...

This thesis will analyse how three different literary texts contribute in the discussion of ‘honour’ killings, and how they challenge cultural values and traditions in honour and shame based communities. The literary texts ...

Sammendrag Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i en lesning av romanen Les -Faux-monnayeurs og Journal des Faux-monnayeurs som følger romanen . I denne romanen har André Gide har skrevet om selvbedrag på det personlige plan, og om ...

Denne masteroppgaven har som hensikt å gi en overordnet oversikt over tolkning i Norge. Jeg fokuserer på praktiske og teoretiske aspekter satt inn i en sosiopolitisk sammenheng, som jeg tenker at belyser forskjellen mellom ...

This article seeks to identify the phonetic correspondence(s) of the digraph <cg> in Old English (OE) and Middle English (ME), assessing a range of sources: the etyma in early Germanic (Gmc) languages, the ...

Among the words that describe initial or final parts of events, words describing finishing stand out in a number of ways: in a language like English, there is a transitive verb which is singularly flexible regarding the ...

The majority of corpus studies of pragmatic phenomena deal with the functions of predefined forms. Moving in the opposite direction—searching for functions in order to identify the forms that can realize them—is impossible ...

The genitive in languages like Czech, German, Japanese or Latin is notoriously multiply ambiguous. Some senses (partitive, possessive, relational, objective) are more or less well-studied, but one, in particular, is ...

This chapter compares frequent four-word lexical bundles in a learner corpus (VESPA) and a native speaker corpus (BAWE), both representing novice academic writing. The frequencies and dispersion of bundles in the two corpora ...

According to Ernest Gellner’s celebrated definition, nationalism is a political principle that holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent. Based on this definition, Alexander Motyl has declared that ...

If literature is an archive of cognitive constellations, then readers can revisit these experiences from different periods and ages. How familiar, however, does a reader have to be with a particular historical context in ...

This article examines the genealogy of Scandinavian influence in France since the early 2000s and the shift in mentalities that has taken place over the last fifteen years or so regarding transparency. The analysis focuses ...

This paper presents an on-going project, PANTERA, which deals with the Portuguese-Norwegian language pair. The PANTERA project aims a) to identify all translations ever published between the two languages Portuguese and ...

Innskriften på Straumsbrynet er spesiell på den måten at den står på en så pass uvanlig gjenstand som et bryne. Blant annet av denne grunn har forskerne stort sett gått ut fra at det måtte bestå en nær sam men heng mellom ...

This paper discusses glyphs of the 2-shaped or “round” allograph of the grapheme <r> with a tag protruding from the lower part of the stem, asking whether their distribution in a corpus of some 600 late Middle English ...

This chapter explores the use of metaphors in the column “Let’s Safeguard Serbian” in the Serbian newspaper Politika in 2015. In this column, adherents of the standard language ideology offered advice about spelling, ...

Reading fiction for pleasure is robustly correlated with improved cognitive attainment and other benefits. It is also in decline among young people in developed nations, in part because of competition from moving image ...

Denne oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i følgende påstander: (1) Mummibøkenes virkelighetsnivåer er tuftet på idyll og psykologisk realisme, og mens idyllen styrer de tidlige bøkenes virkelighetsfremstilling, preges de senere ...

This article examines the staging of children as consumers in the first Danish children’s magazine Ungdommens Ven (1770). By investigating texts that portray children and their use of pocket money, with an emphasis on texts ...

This article establishes a connection between the novel, as a cultural artefact which encourages the exploration of inner perceptions, literary reading, and recent research into interoception in cognitive psychology. ...

This article traces the diachronic development from the Proto Norse demonstrative hinn via the Old Icelandic definite article(s) to the Modern Icelandic article system. This demonstrative gave rise to two distinct article ...

The etymology of the Old Norse noun mór m. ‘sandy plain etc.’ has not as yet been satisfactorily clarified. This is primarily due to its formally ambiguous structure, so that the correct Proto Scandinavian form has so far ...

This essay considers the significance of images of ruins in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Joe Sacco’s works on Palestine. I discuss how these comics artists position the built environment in ruins as witnesses to human ...

This article, a revised version of Tore Rem’s keynote lecture at the XIVth International Ibsen Conference in Skien on 5–8 September 2018, draws on pp. 140–174 in Narve Fulsås and Tore Rem, Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making ...

The question of what literature is for—if there is a purpose—is not new. Since the beginning of literary theory as a field of study, the debate has been long and complex and is still ongoing. This article offers a reflection ...

The aim of the study is to show the role of the Italian expression devo dire in different contexts of use. The analysis is based on the approach elaborated in the studies of scholars belonging to the group of the French ...

In spring 2009, three initiatives were taken in Moscow to control public presentation of Russian history: two bills were prepared for the Duma that would criminalize ‘the rehabilitation of Nazism’ and shortly afterwards ...

«Uten kanon slutter vi å tenke.» Dette leser vi i innledningen til Harold Blooms The Western Canon.1 Det setter tonen for Blooms budskap og minner meg om Arne Næss’ retoriske spørsmål: «Gjør det vondt å tenke?» Bloom ville ...

Å lese Hamlet er å gå fra høydepunkt til høydepunkt: monologen To be, or not to be: that is the question (akt III, scene 1); fortellingen om Ofelias død: There is a willow grows aslant a brook (IV, 7); talen til hodeskallen: ...

A Doll’s House [Et Dukkehjem, 1879] is Henrik Ibsen’s best known and most widely performed play. In Spain, it was Ibsen’s first translated play, in 1892, and it has been translated, published, staged and rewritten multiple ...

Our main objective in this paper is to show how linguistic properties can be transferred from one system to another. Consequences of transfer are evaluated, both positive and negative, for the acquisition of possessives ...

Abstract This thesis looks at how shame is depicted in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. In doing so, it looks both at how David, the main character in the novel, experiences his own shame in the moment, and how shame can ...

This thesis explores how and why literary representation of genderqueer narratives are important through an in-depth analysis of the young adult novel Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin, published in 2016. The thesis ...

This thesis investigates the position of biological parents within the system of child welfare in Russia today. Based on semi-structured interviews and document analysis I examine the relation between vulnerable families ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker hvordan narrativ litteratur, og etter hvert spesielt den realistiske romanen, kom til å spille en stor rolle i konstruksjonen av en felles evangelikalsk identitet for amerikanske konservative ...

Diese Masterarbeit befasst sich mit den Merkmalen des Populismus in der Kommunikation der Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) im Bundestagswahlkampf 2017. Seit der Gründung der AfD im Jahr 2013 ist die ideologische Ausrichtung ...

El objetivo principal de esta tesis reside en estudiar, a la luz de la inflexion decolonial, tanto la identidad del narrador como la de los personajes centrales en las obras Peregrinos de Aztlán de Miguel Méndez y ...

En esta tesis se ha investigado el papel del vocabulario en la enseñanza-aprendizaje de ELE (español como lengua extranjera) en Noruega en el nivel II del bachillerato (videregående skole). Mediante un estudio mixto que ...

Walter Benjamin uses the figure das bucklichte Männlein in four texts, three of which are central to his thinking on and about history, memory, remembrance and messianism. This article argues that this figure, the “hunchbacked ...

The Verb-second (V2) phenomenon is one of the central issues of modern linguistic theory. This volume examines V2 from a micro-perspective, comparing various languages and periods. At the heart of the work presented here ...

«Yo, señor Arnaldo, soy hecho como esto que se llama lugar, que es donde todas las cosas caben, y no hay ninguna fuera del lugar, y en mí le tienen todas las que son desgraciadas». Así se define Periandro antes de relatar ...

In this thesis I use Carl Jung’s analytical psychology to examine three stories by H.P. Lovecraft. In my discussion of The Call of Cthulhu, I suggest that the figure of Cthulhu be read as a symbol of the objective shadow. ...

Demonstratives are referring expressions that exist in all languages. English and Norwegian are no exceptions to this rule. Their demonstrative systems are similar in both form and meaning. Perhaps due to their similarities, ...

Montréal est la ville québécoise la plus influencée par l'immigration et par une minorité anglophone importante et constitue donc un point de départ intéressant pour les études sur la question de l'identité au Québec. Dans ...

This article looks into what structures are used to report longer sequences of speech in German, English and Norwegian online press media. In German the subjunctive is used to signal speech report, and so there is a wider ...

La presente ricerca si propone di mettere a confronto due autrici, assumendo come presupposto la comunanza di genere (sono entrambe scrittrici donne), sulla base del quale si ritiene che l’interpretazione della loro vita ...

Mass Incarceration: Punitive Laws that Challenge Equal Rights and Opportunities for all explores Americans’ attitudes toward punishment. In order to say something about Americans’ attitudes toward punishment, the U.S. ...

I dagens læreplan (LK06), og i desto større grad i den kommende læreplanen fra 2020 (Fagfornyelsen), fremheves viktigheten av kommunikasjon i fremmedspråkfaget. Dette understøttes av kompetansemålene i læreplanen, deriblant ...

En esta tesina se documentan y sistematizan algunas problemáticas detectadas en la traducción al noruego de dos cuentos argentinos de horror escritos por Mariana Enríquez: “El chico sucio” (“Den møkkete gutten”) y “Tela ...

2 Abstracto Esta tesis estudia la representación histórico-narrativa y las relaciones de colonialidad y decolonialidad en la novela Historia de Mayta (1984) de Mario Vargas Llosa. Con tal propósito en el primer capítulo ...

This Master´s Thesis explores selected policies implemented by Sadiq Khan that is based on material from his manifesto prior to the candidate election to become Mayor of London in 2016. A distinct observation prior to the ...

The main goal of this thesis is to show the advantage of further discussion on nostalgia in relation to retellings of fairy tales. I claim that employing Svetlana Boym’s distinction between reflective and restorative ...

«Denne bog er skrevet af kvinder til kvinder, fordi det er nødvendigt, at vi selv kender vores krop» (K. Vinder, 1975). Slik er ambisjonen formulert i klassikeren Kvinde kend din krop fra 1975, den første i en rekke ...

This article examines the visual representation of refugees on the Croatian public broadcaster’s (HRT) online portal during the so-called European refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016. A content analysis of 887 images is linked ...

El enfoque de esta tesina es la producción escrita de alumnos noruegos de español del nivel II en el bachillerato (videregående skole). Dentro del marco del Análisis de Errores (rama dentro de la Lingüística Aplicada) se ...

En el presente trabajo se explorará cuál es el futuro del uso de la lengua castellana en Bolivia después de 9 años desde que se iniciara el proyecto de Estado Plurinacional de la mano de Evo Morales. Para tal fin, se ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker brevvekslingen mellom Sigrid Undset og den amerikanske middelalderforskeren Hope Emily Allen. De skrev til hverandre fra 1941 til 1949, og mesteparten av brevene ble til mens Undset var i eksil i ...

Данная работа посвящена анализу словотворчества в свете реализации принципа языковой игры в поэтических текстах 1985 – 2017 гг. Д. Л. Быкова. Общая характеристика идиостиля поэта осуществляется на примере анализа «Второй ...

This thesis investigates the climate of media discourse immediately following the Brexit referendum of 2016. More specifically, it does this by examining in detail four editorial articles published by The Guardian and the ...

Sammendrag I moderne fransk krever konstruksjonen av en standard negativ setning både et pre- og et postverbalt negasjonselement. I gammelfransk holdt det derimot med det preverbale elementet ne. Dette kunne forsterkes med ...

The English country house is at once a historical reality, an ideal and a trope in literature. Modern novels which incorporate the country house must navigate through the extensive power dynamics that permeate them. This ...