This paper studies the Royal Society's public rhetoric of science by analysing Brian Cox, whose rise to science prominence corresponded with his period as a Royal Society University Research Fellow from 2005 to 2013. The ...

This article is a case study that investigates how the exploration of new material technologies in poetry intertwines with the aesthetic principles of Tina Escaja’s poetic production. It also aims to develop how this ...

Lawrence Venuti introduserte begrepene “hjemliggjøring” og “fremmedgjøring” for å skille mellom to hovedtyper av oversettelsesstrategier. Mens “fremmedgjøring” innebærer en anerkjennelse av kildespråket og kildekulturens ...

With his Reverse Perspective (1919) the Armeno-Russian theologian and mathematician Pavel Florensky denounced the monocular, ‘cyclopean’ vision otherwise seen as the main principle in Renaissance painting. Florensky connected ...

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 ...

«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 ...

This paper explores the degree of congruence between two closely related languages – English and Norwegian – in a case study of the two stance frames it BE * that and det VÆRE * at. It is first established that the open ...

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Counter to common views of art and science as distinct entities, and of modernism as a-historical, this study explores how innovations within mathematics and geometry motivated a re-activation of the medieval Orthodox icon ...

Hjalmar Falk og Alf Torp la med sin bok Etymologisk ordbog over det norske og det danske sprog (FT) 1903–06 grunnlaget for den etymolo­giske utforskningen av den eldste delen av det norske ordforrådet. Dette arbeidet ble ...

This special issue presents a “crossover” between two strands of contemporary narrative theory: a second-generation cognitive approach that foregrounds the linkage of stories, mind, and the human body; and an unnatural ...

The present article develops a feminist approach to cognitive narratology on the basis of recent work in embodied cognition. Cognitive narratology does not traditionally consider gender perspectives, for a variety of ...

Cognitive and unnatural approaches to literature take very different stances on the issue of fictionality. While cognitive approaches consider everyday nonfictional and literary fictional narratives to highlight their ...

Monika Fludernik’s Toward a Natural Narratology (1996) develops a detailed historical account of how the textual structures of experientiality identified in the theoretical framework have developed in English fiction since ...

This article is a short synopsis of parts of my monograph, Alvestad (2016), about the Uppsala manuscript, O. nova 546, of Muḥammed Hevāʾī Üskūfī Bosnevī´s literary work Maḳbūl-i ʿārif [Dear to the Wise] from 1631. Thus, ...

Le présent article portera sur l’acquisition du pronom clitique « en » en français langue étrangère/seconde (L2). Ce pronom clitique, qui manifeste une complexité syntaxique considérable, pose nombre de problèmes pour les ...

Det finnes en lang rekke estetiske verk av svært ulik karakter med beskrivelser og fremstillinger av tuberkulose, som var svært utbredt i Europa på 1800-tallet og frem til medisinen oppdaget årsakene og kunne tilby ...

Det følgende er et utdrag fra kapittelet "Kreft – eller spredningens logikk" i boken Sykdom som litteratur (Bondevik/Stene-Johansen 2011). Det er ett av bokens 13 kapitler som tar for seg hver sin medisinske diagnose og ...

This chapter discusses metacognitive cross-linguistic awareness in language learning with a focus on Norwegian advanced learners of English. It is argued that even rather proficient language learners can benefit from ...

This article deals with the approach to the dative case in Kajkavian and Štokavian grammars from 1604 to 1859. We concentrate on seventeen grammars, primarily focusing on their presentation of the meaning of the dative ...

This paper presents a model for combining contrastive analysis and interlanguage analysis. It can be seen as an extension of Granger’s (1996) Integrated Contrastive Model, but it explicitly requires a bidirectional parallel ...

This paper examines the Russian migration and citizenship regime as encountered by forced migrants from Ukraine who fled to Russia during the period of 2014–2016. Based on legal and other official documents, media articles, ...

Denne teksten ser på hvilken betydning Macrons personlighet og politiske stil har hatt for fransk diplomati og for internasjonal politikk det siste året, med hovedvekt for relasjonen med Donald Trump. Hva slags resultater ...

This article explores how migrants were visually presented during the so-called migration crisis in southeast Europe in the fall of 2015. It considers photographs from two public broadcasters’ news portals: Slovenia's ...

Artikkelen er en todelt undersøkelse av hvordan vi kan forstå apostrofiske dikt som ritualistiske. Den første delen tar for seg avgjørende forskjeller mellom Jonathan Cullers apostrofekapittel fra 1981 og hans nye arbeid ...

How are emotions are expressed in Italian and in Norwegian? What are the reasons that cause people to consider Italian a more emotive language compared to the Germanic languages? To answer these questions, two translations ...

The present study uses the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus to investigate the frequency and use of indefinite noun phrases as subjects in English and Norwegian. Since subjects in both languages tend to appear clause-initially, ...

Culture is often transmitted in a text through lexemes termed realia words. These words are used to denominate culturally specific objects, but because they are culturally oriented they are very difficult to translate: ...

Negli ultimi decenni gli studi contrastivi continuano ad espandere il loro dominio segnando così l’inizio di una nuova fase: dall’analisi dei fenomeni grammaticali – prevalente negli studi del secolo scorso – l’interesse ...

This study describes Italian idiomatic expressions with musical lexis compared to Norwegian idioms from the same semantic field. Lexical and semantic criteria are used for the analysis. The corpus created for this purpose ...

This study compares the political discourses of Silvio Berlusconi and Jens Stoltenberg. These two politicians represent different political ideologies and belong to two different countries—and, hence, to different cultures. ...

This study investigates the influence of L1 language-specific patterns on the acquisition of L2 structures. The lack of certain grammatical categories is often compensated for at another level of linguistic structure. This ...

This article introduces the case of right-wing terrorism and violence in Putin’s Russia into the purview of terrorism studies. The article explores the modus operandi of Russian right-wing militants by analyzing a new ...

The Arctic is an imagined space as much as a geographical place; our ideas and understanding of the region are based both in the fictional and the factual. Aritha van Herk’s Places Far From Ellesmere (1990) combines multiple ...

Inspired by Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller's intervention in Reading Literature across Continents, this essay discusses the narrative ethics of two narratives: Olga Horak's first-person narrative from the Holocaust and ...

Cette étude examine le rapport entre connaissances explicites de grammaire et usage de ces connaissances dans la production écrite libre chez 40 lycéens norvégiens apprenants du français L3. Les questions de recherche ...

Based on the analysis of the case study of the Zitzer Spiritual Republic, an antiwar movement in the ethnically dominantly Hungarian village Trešnjevac/Oromhegyes that took place in 1992, the article aims at reflecting on ...

In 2016 the author Kjartan Fløgstad criticized the Norwegian reception to the novel The End of Eddy by the French author Édouard Louis, sparking a debate that would culminate in a stand-off between Louis and Fløgstad in ...

This study outlines and tests a method for comparing the use of functional categories consisting of high-frequency 3-grams in original and translated texts. The 3-grams are extracted from a corpus of contemporary English ...

L’objectif de ce travail est d’étudier l’acquisition du système possessif en français comme L2. Sur la base d’une description comparative des systèmes possessifs en français et en norvégien, nous nous sommes limité ...

This chapter discusses the interplay between translation and writing in the work of poets who also translate poetry. First, I present the Scandinavian term gjendiktning for the creative rewriting of poetry. I then discuss ...

The ways in which the French author and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) has been portrayed in Norwegian print media have undergone significant changes since she was first introduced to the Norwegian reading ...

Con gran frecuencia, los estudiantes de español como lengua extranjera encuentran dificultades de comprensión lectora en textos literarios debido a la riqueza de vocabulario y sus expresiones idiomáticas, así como por la ...

We argue against the dominant view in the literature that concepts (understood as the standing meanings of general terms) are modulated in lexical modulation. We also argue against the alternative view that ‘grab bags’ of ...

This article addresses the nature of the interaction between translators and copy-editors in the process preceding the publication of literary translations in Norway. The copy-editing of translations is here understood as ...

In the feld of History of Literature the possibility of developing fctitious avatars in social networks allows anyone to play with canonical authors’ identity, biographical data and textual works. Such virtual identities ...

The topic of this paper is Old English and Old Norwegian noun phrases containing two attributive adjectives. An overview of the frequency of various word order constellations will be given, before we zoom in on one of them, ...

This chapter examines three recent Norwegian debates on translation sparked off by translation reviews, in which the various agents involved in producing translated texts were granted unusual visibility. The case reflects ...

This chapter addresses realizations of impoliteness in written discourse thematizing language and identity in Croatian and Montenegrin media (online and print newspapers, and internet forums) from 2010 to 2011. The main ...

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According to recent developments in predictive processing and Bayesian cognition, our thinking is fantastic: we grasp the world through predictive, probabilistic models that we compare against the feedback from the actual ...

Multistability refers to those moments in a narrative when readers are made aware of two mutually exclusive possibilities, conceived as an analogy to the visual illusion of the duck-rabbit, which can be seen either as a ...

Interpreters in the public sector in Norway interpret in a variety of institutional encounters, and the interpreters evaluate the majority of these encounters as polite. However, some encounters are evaluated as impolite, ...

Do we have any means of predicting or evaluating how technological developments could contribute to a good society before they become part of everyday life? This paper turns to history for a potential answer by seeing the ...

Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (Et dukkehjem. Skuespil i tre akter, 1879) owes its world wide reputation to the last scene, where Nora leaves her husband and children. A little less known is the German, alternative ending ...

How often do incidents of antisemitic violence occur in contemporary Europe, and what trends are showing? How exposed are Jewish populations in different countries? Who commits these crimes? We need to answer such questions ...

Humans and other thinking beings can represent the world. My cat knows which cupboard her food is in: she has a mental representation of that state of affairs. Given that I believe that she knows where her food is, I have ...

The present paper presents the contrastive background and the basic objectives of a cross-linguistic research project (POSS) that takes an L2-oriented perspective on possessives in English, Norwegian, German, French and ...

The rise of environmental studies is an acknowledgment that the surround plays a larger and more fundamental role in human history than previously understood. Nonetheless the meaning of ‘environment’ and of its representations ...

This paper describes and reflects on endeavours to develop, design and assess an educational intervention to improve the academic English reading proficiency of first-year university students in Ghana. The study, conducted ...

The present paper presents the contrastive background and the basic objectives of a cross-linguistic research project (POSS) that takes an L2-oriented perspective on possessives in English, Norwegian, German, French and ...

The American Midwest is an area that stretches over huge distances. Yet it seems that the Norwegian language in this whole area has some similarities, particularly at the lexical level. Comparisons of three types of ...

This article addresses identity construction through social symbolic meanings conveyed in discussions about scripts, primarily Cyrillic, in Croatian public discourse. We focus on discussions in various Croatian online ...

Lists of wonders have circulated for millennia. Over and over, such inventories of spectacular man made constructions have been rewritten, re-edited and reimagi-ned. Both the wonders and the lists of wonders, preferably ...

This study compares the semantic networks of the verbal prefix u- in two South Slavic languages, Bulgarian (blg.) and Croatian (cro.), in a cognitive linguistics framework using two databases of prefixed verbs drawn from ...

This article investigates the representation of migration and migrants in Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters’ online portals during the “migrant crisis” in 2015/2016. The study shows that there are similarities in ...

In Bech (2001a, 2001b), I took issue with the oft-repeated claim that Old English conjunct main clauses are commonly verb-final, and disproved it. However, the myth persists. In the meantime, the York–Toronto–Helsinki ...

This chapter presents the findings of a study of how the implied author’s voice in the first Norwegian translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s “Introduction” in Le deuxième sexe (1949) from 1970 differs from the implied author’s ...

The State Program for Voluntary Resettlement of Compatriots Abroad was launched in 2006/2007 as a strategy to attract new citizens who were already fluent in Russian and accustomed to Russian culture, in a situation of ...

The present paper reports on two empirical studies concerning the acquisition of possessive systems by L2 learners of Norwegian and German respectively. The first study investigates comprehension and production in written ...

This article examines how the idea of the nation-state is articulated in political and social discourse. In particular, it explores how the national community and the state are positioned vis-a`-vis each other in discourse ...

This is an accepted version of a chapter in the book Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature, eds. Liisa Steinby and Aino Mäkikalli. © 2017 Amsterdam University Press

The present paper reports on the results of two translation experiments conducted with eye tracking and keylogging. Norwegian and Danish professional and student translators have each translated a small English news text ...

Based on an analysis of interviews (eighteen in total) conducted in Italy and Norway, this article explores how identity is (re)constructed in a new host society. It especially focuses on how the informants (‘fortunate ...

In Dickey (2000), the most comprehensive comparative account of aspect use in Slavic to date, ten Slavic languages are considered based on seven parameters of use, but two important verb forms are not accounted for: the ...

In this book we have let six key words – Ecology, Imaginary, Invisibility, Palimpsest, Sovereignty and Waiting – steer parallel but interconnected paths through the field of border aesthetics. The time has come to pull ...

The aim of this article is two-folded. First, I wish to situate Baudelaire in the midst of 19th-century media, bring attention to the way he explored the new media of his day, and suggest that he developed his own media ...

This paper applies quantitative methods in palaeography. It develops tree-structured regression models of the palaeographical variation found in a synchronic corpus of texts written in orthographically less standardised ...

The study explores the potential of quantitative methods to shed light on how texts originally written in English (EO) and texts translated into English (ET) from Norwegian cluster in terms of functional classes. The object ...

Focusing on Seamus Heaney’s three poems on the Tollund Man, this article considers how Seamus Heaney’s poetic responses to the Danish bog bodies and the Jutland landscapes he first encountered in P. V. Glob’s The Bog People ...

National symbols never leave one indifferent: they either appeal or repeal. It is therefore very important to know how symbols appeal to people and to whom, by whom and under what circumstances they appeal. This special ...

Good voice quality and good diction are often contradictory. This basically concerns vowels. In classical singing, vowels are often modified in their quality from speech, to make the voice function better as a musical ...

Vyvyan Evans’ The Language Myth argues that Chomsky’s program of Universal Grammar (UG) is “completely wrong,” and it has attracted much recent discussion, some of it laudatory. We set out what we take to be its many serious ...

This paper highlights the value of a bidirectional translation corpus in contrastive studies in an investigation of the cross-linguistic relationship between two cognates in English and Norwegian: bring and bringe. Although ...

Der portugiserne har sin fado og grekerne sine gråtekoner, har vi i dagens Norge få sorgritualer ut over selve begravelsesritualet. Det er som om krav om effektivitet og å være velfungerende, initiativrik og fleksibel ...

Drawing on diachronic data from the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), this paper starts by testing the initial hypothesis that the resultative ADJ enough that construction is on the increase. One complicating ...