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 ...

After the publication of Villa triste (1975), several of Patrick Modiano's novels contain a storyline that is similar to the main plot of this novel: a man—often the story's narrator, who is also the male protagonist—recollects ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article draws on Espen Aarseth’s concepts of cybertext (1997) and ludo-narratives (2012), on rhetorical narrative theory and on Miguel Sicart’s (2013) conception of the ethics of computer games, in a discussion of ...

Scholars from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Spain and Sweden study the experiences of Norwegian migrants in Latin America between the Wars of Independence and World War II.

This article investigates the current generation of Penguin Ibsen editions, translated by Una Ellis-Fermor and Peter Watts and dating back to the 1950s and ‘60s. It sketches the development of Penguin’s publishing profile, ...

What is the discursive genealogy of an ecological approach to the Arctic? Building on distinctions suggested by Francis Spufford and Gísli Pálsson, this article examines a specific juncture in the history of European–Arctic ...

¿Qué es lo que motiva a investigadores de las ciencias sociales de un país pequeño, periférico y lejano como Noruega a estudiar fenómenos sociales en América Latina? ¿En qué medida podemos decir que el pensamiento social ...

What has been the relationship between the cultural power of film and the political power of the state in Mexico and Venezuela between 1980 and 2010? In a context where the legitimacy of the state was faltering, did films ...

The dissertation approaches the phenomenon of selective law enforcement in Russian politics. The practice of using law selectively against regime critics in Russia is well known, yet has received little theoretical attention. ...

What would a model of the embodied reader look like? Is he tied to the embodied resonances evoked by the text and by extension grounded in the here and now of the represented situation? Or can we integrate the dynamics of ...

‘Probability’ seems to be a term forgotten by literary theory. Central to neoclassical and Augustan criticism, probability describes the inferences of readers and their developing discernment of what is likely to happen ...

In this article, I use a parallel corpus from the 13th and 14th century to tease out some of the structural differences that existed between Old Spanish and Old Portuguese. While these two related languages were relatively ...

Both Old English and Old French are commonly described as V2 languages. We investigate the position of the postverbal subject based on a corpus of medieval texts with respect to syntax and information structure. Our main ...

Bayesian probability calculus has recently emerged as a model for how the mind learns about fictional and cultural environments. This essay considers reading a narrative as a process of learning about the probabilities of ...

Artikkelen tar for seg to myter om det norske språket i den amerikanske Midtvesten. Den ene er at de norsktalende etterkommerne av norske immigranter snakker et antikvarisk norsk. Den andre er at språket deres nærmet seg ...

This article investigates themorphosyntactic status of dative case in Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. We hypothesize that these three languages represent three diachronic stages signalled synchronically by the degree ...

I 1846 forlot en gruppe emigranter av Igland-slekt sine hjemtrakter i og rundt Hommedal sogn i Sør-Norge for å bygge et nytt liv i Amerika. De var for det meste bønder, og hadde sponset redaktør Johan R. Reiersen på en ...

Formålet med avhandlingen er å undersøke hvorvidt Petr Tkačev og V. I. Lenin bør betraktes som eksponenter for en russisk `jakobinsk´-`blanquistisk´ politisk tradisjon, og om Tkačev har påvirket utviklingen av Lenins ...

This PhD thesis compares the discourse of a selection of 25 ‘green’ businesses and 37 environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the UK, using corpus linguistics. The author constructed large language ‘databases’ ...

I artikkelsamlingen kan du lese om pedagogiske endringer i krysningspunktet mellom teknologi, organisering og læring. Du finner artikler fra en rekke ulike fagmiljøer som beskriver prosjekter av mange ulike slag. Erfaringene ...

The festschrift contains contributions from the following authors: Bergljot Behrens, Reinhard Blutner, Pål Kristian Eriksen, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Jens Erik Fenstad, Atle Grønn, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Sveta Krasikova, ...

The study of quasi-states has been marred by an unfortunate terminological confusion. Sometimes, this term is taken to mean recognized states that fail to develop the necessary state structures to function as fully fledged, ...

Davenport, Randi Lise: Skrellet og befridd for slik pynt som fortale": prologen til Don Quijote, 1605, mellom tekst og paratekst. 7-22 Cabanillas Cárdenas, Carlos F.: De personaje literario a figura cómica – La popularización ...

Londrim, Graciete: O percurso e o modo do movimento no norueguês e no português. 7-24 Ruiz Rufino, Maximino J.: Et tilbakeblikk på spansk i Skandinavia. Carlos Rodríguez og hans spanske grammatikk (København, 1662). ...

Slavophilism was one of the most original and important intellectual currents in Russia in the 19th century. In the great philosophical debate in the 1840s and 1850s, however, the Slavophiles were on the losing side: their ...

Boulos, Miriam Stendal og Elin Beate Tobiassen: En guise de présentation. 7-9 Le roman français de l'après-guerre Barstad, Guri Ellen: Imitation méthodique et exercice spirituel dans Les ames fortes de Jean Giono. ...

Rambæk, Ida: Translation strategies expressed in retrospective and concurrent verbal reports. 7-19 Waahlberg, Helle: Une autre lecture? - Lire dans une langue étrangère. 21-32 Hagemann, Kristin Føsker: Om talespråk og ...

Begrepet ‟folket‟ i russisk samfunnsdebatt i forrige århundre omfattet ikke hele Russlands befolkning. Det gikk et skarpt skille mellom den forfinede, velutdannede ov vestliggjordte overklassen på den ene siden, og de brede ...

Forord. 1 Frølich, Juliette: Minnetale over Anne-Lisa Amadou. 3-16 Dørum, Hallvard: Syntaktiske enstøingers fødsel, liv og død. 17-32 Ruiz Rufino, Maximino J.: Los rasgos generales de la lengua Bisaya en la Historia de ...

Forord. 1 Trandem, Beate: Normes et traduction. 7-19 Rydning, Antin Fougner: Kreativitetsaspektet i lys av to kognitive teorier: CMT og BT. 21-41 Wlodek, Marcin: O participípio português - formas e usos. 43-53 Sparre, ...

Hovdhaugen, E. Nordiske romanisters bidrag til allmennlingvistikken. 1-9 Español Álvarez Salamanca P. El baño y el patio: cronotopos de identidad en algunos textos garcíamarquianos. 11-18 Bermúdez, F.W. La estructura ...

Schmidt, Júlia Marina da Graça: O Sermão da Sexagésima sob um ponto de vista retórico e estilístico. 3-12 Sabbatini, Sergio: Tratti principali della letteratura italiana dal 1968. 15-23 Simpson, JoEllen M.: The "American ...

Forord. 1 Sønneland, Anne Margrethe: El voseo - ¿una manera americana de hablar? 3-8 Dørum, Hallvard: Serialisering, prosodi og kommunikativ struktur. 9-24 Sletsjøe, Anne: As paisagens alegóricas do Compêndio narrativo ...

Forord. 1 Henriksen, Turid: La mise en scène de l'article partitif. 3-18 Rydning, Antin Fougner: La SYNECDOQUE - concept clé en traduction. 19-41 Trandem, Beate: Å skrive det sagte. 43-47 Hagen, Margareth: Kjærlighetens ...

When Leo Tolstoi emerged as a religious teacher in the 1880s, taking a sharply polemical stance against the Orthodox faith he had been raised in, the Russian church was at a loss to find effective and appropriate ways to ...

Avhandlingen fokuserer på Aleksandr Voronskij, en ledende sovjetisk redaktør, journalist og litteraturkritiker i 1920-årene. Flere russiske arkiver er undersøkt, inklusiv familiearkivet, og nytt arkivmateriale presenteres. ...

Forord. 1 Sletsjøe, Anne: O desgraciado amante peralvilho om kjærligheten som drivkraft i en pikares løpebane. 3-17 Helland, Hans Petter og Marianne Hobæk Haff: Nominalfrasen og dens satellitter: En kontrastiv tilnærming ...

Carù, Paola: Cecco Angiolieri e la tradizione cortese: sonetti sulla pena d'amore. 3-10 Celati, Clara: Laboratorio Calvino. 11-22 Helland, Hans Petter: Kognitiv grammatikk - det endelige oppgjøret med Chomsky? 23-34 Hersant, ...

Andersen, Øivind: Epos og eposteori i antikken. 3-18 Haug, Dag: Hva er en homerisk formel? 19-27 Welo, Eirik: Episke kunstformer - et metodologisk problem. 29-37 Kraggerud, Egil: Hva slags epos er Aeneiden? 39-51 Kleve, ...

Diasporas are usually defined as ethnic groups which lack a territorial base within a given polity. Territoriality, however, is not a given. It is determined not only by such objective factors as geography, demography, and ...

Rydning, Antin Fougner: Kontekstuell vs konvensjonell betydning i det kognitive paradigmet. 3-17 Paasche, Rosamaría: Notas a la poesia de Idea Vilariño. 19-36 Gullichsen, Harald: Etude de deux glossaires anciens: Les ...

Gullichsen, Harald: St. Augustins semiotikk i dialogen De Magistro. 3-19 Eide, Kristine: Begrepet "vulgærlatin" og dets betydning innen romansk filologi. 21-34 Skattum, Ingse: Droits de la personne et droits de la ...

Østmoe, Tor Ivar: Kvantitet i latinske vokaler og konsonanter. 3-13 Gullichsen, Harald: Coup d'oeil sur le végliote. 15-31 Stengaard, Birte: Ringens hemmelighet: et hedensk ordtak med et fromt budskap. 33-36 Izquierdo, ...

In the communist period, the Soviet republics could be regarded as a kind of pseudo-states or proto-states, which had some of the trappings of true states, but lacked essential elements such as control of their own territory ...

Aubert, Francis Henrik: Translation Modalities - A Descriptive Model for Quantitative Studies in Translatology. 3-28 González-Ortega, Nelson: La poesía y los conceptos de negrismo, negritud y mulatez. 29-46 Izquierdo, ...

Rydning, Antin Fougner: Myten om det uoversettelige. 3-16 Marstrander, Leiv-Otto: Ergon. 17-25 Markussen, Mona: Kognitiv lingvistikk: Det symbolske alternativet. 27-42 Santos, Diana: The importance of vagueness in ...

With the sole exception of Russia, all successor states of the Soviet Union have been proclaimed as 'national states' or 'nation-states'. A period of intense nation-building has commenced. In order to keep a state together ...

Kraggerud, Egil: Grammatikk og tekstfortolkning: observasjoner rundt refleksivitet i latin. 3-17 Nilsson, Kåre: Reflexiva og alternative uttrykksmåter i portugisisk og spansk. 19-45 Dørum, Hallvard: Tematiske roller i ...

The collapse of the unitary Soviet state has plunged its former citizens into a profound identity crisis. Particularly hard hit are the 25 million Russians living in the non-Russian successor states. Formerly members of ...

Prytz, Otto: Refleksive pronomener - de finnes vel ikke? 3-11 Herslund, Michael: Passiv og antipassiv i de franske refleksiver. 13-28 Marstrander, Leiv-Otto: Likhet som utgangspunkt og sammenligning som metode for ...

Romansk Forum (1994-2006) var et fagtidsskrift som ble utgitt av Klassisk og romansk institutt. og senere av Institutt for litteratur, områdestudier og europeiske språk (ILOS). Romansk Forum omfatter 265 artikler i fulltekst ...

Worren, Arne: Om Barokk og Neo-Barokk. 3-17 Aarnes, Asbjørn: Barokkens skjebne i fransk litteratur. 18-35 Øveraas, Anne Marie: Poetikk og polemikk. Lope de Vega: Arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo. 36-49 ...