O ponto de partida para o presente artigo foi a observação de que, num corpo de cerca de 800 textos literários em português, a Literateca, havia consideravelmente mais menções ao vestuário nos textos brasileiros do que nos ...

Denne artikkelen tar for seg Agnes M. Wergelands Amerika og andre digte (1912), en glemt, men bemerkelsesverdig utgivelse, som skildrer Amerika med immigrantens blikk. Den første delen etablerer en kulturhistorisk og ...

This article argues that it is productive to combine cognitive literary studies and postcolonial criticism, and that this constitutes a new formalist approach. Drawing on insights from cognitive science, it describes how ...

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 paper highlights the importance of a common ground, or tertium comparationis, in order to establish unbiased cross-linguistic equivalence in contrastive studies. Following an outline of the two main types of corpora ...

Inspired by Nansen’s accounts of Arctic journeys, the child protagonists of Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday (1933) transform the English lake on which they spend their holidays into the scene of an Arctic expedition. This ...

Writers’ museums often privilege the biographical person of the author rather than their literary works. Here we present a model which can be used not only as a method of analysis, but also as as an inspiration that can ...

Desde la aparición y expansión de uso de las redes sociales en internet es creciente la presencia, difusión y rediseño del microrrelato en soportes alternativos al del papel impreso. Este trabajo consistirá en analizar ...

Hedging strategies, i.e. downtoning expressions or expressions of tentativeness or possibility, are ubiquitous in most, if not all, languages. However, hedging is often realised differently across languages, making such ...

Nous examinerons dans cette contribution des différences structurales et syntaxiques entre des procédés de topicalisation en français et en norvégien. L’illustration de tels mécanismes se fait sur la base de dislocations ...

The communicative activity is based on the adjustment between two speakers because the relationship between words and things is not immediate and obligatory (Culioli). In what is said there is always the indicible (‘impossible ...

Este artigo pretende refletir sobre o Primeiro Encontro sobre Leitura Distante em Português que aconteceu na Universidade de Oslo a 27 e 28 de outubro de 2019. Elaboramos este texto com o intuito de disseminar os assuntos ...

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This paper investigates the use of clause-initial constituents prefaced by topic-identifying expressions such as in terms of, in the case of and their Norwegian counterparts. The focus is on the nature, frequency and ...

This paper combines two of Linguateca's projects { Esqueleto (on the human body) and Emocionário (on emotions), to investigate which areas of the human body and, therefore, body words or expressions, are mentioned when ...

Neste artigo usamos um conjunto de características sintático-semânticas da língua portuguesa para classificar em períodos literários dois conjuntos de obras. Em que medida tais características são capazes de refletir ...

Este trabajo examina, desde un punto de vista teórico, el vínculo que se estableció por medio de un programa de diplomacia cultural entre la República Popular China de los años 50 y 60 y los escritores e intelectuales ...

This article explores state efforts to safeguard national history and identity in Putin's Russia. It is argued that a process of selective securitization has been taking place, whereby elite actors have defined certain ...

What opportunities and trade-offs do de facto states encounter in developing economic ties with the outside world? This article explores the complex relationship between trade and trust in the context of contested statehood. ...

Hedging is an important aspect of pragmatic competence, but it is also a complex phenomenon that is difficult to master. This has resulted in underuse of hedging strategies by language learners, and many learners limit ...

The three scribes of a mid-seventeenth-century collection of medical recipes resemble each other in how they have punctuated the recipes, although they did not work simultaneously. They draw on similar repertoires of marks ...

The present study looks at adverb placement in expert writing and in first-language and second-language novice spoken and written production. The extent to which first-language (L1) transfer is still present in advanced ...

When characters travel 'at the speed of plot', they need to arrive at the conclusion of the story by the time the narrative comes to its end on the page. This article develops the popular notion of 'plot speed' into a ...

Comparative literature and cognitive literary studies both consider literature as a worldwide phenomenon. The move toward world literature in comparative literature made salient the issue of reading some texts in translation, ...

This study examines the role of metaphor in the conceptualization of hope (nada) in the Croatian corpus hrWaC. Employing “metaphorical pattern analysis” (Stefanowitsch, 2006), I analyze metaphorical patterns with the ...

Con base en postulados de Bourdieu, este artículo propone algunos paralelismos entre Anagrama y Gallimard como editoriales que conservan una imagen pública vanguardista que no se corresponde con sus políticas editoriales ...

This article attempts to put a new spin on (the development of) weakly inflected adjectives, with a partic- ular focus on North Germanic, by recycling some traditional ideas. Point of departure is the observation that the ...

Folkemordet i Srebrenica i juli 1995 opprørte en hel verden. Siden 1992, da krigen brøt ut, hadde Bosnia-Hercegovina vært under internasjonalt oppsyn. Artikkelen drøfter hvordan folkemord og grove krigsforbrytelser kunne ...

The article discusses the post-Soviet de facto state of Abkhazia, and its relationship to its main patron, Russia. All patron–client nexuses are marked by a high degree of asymmetrical power – especially with de facto ...

It is claimed that authoritarian regimes actively export their political systems. An alternative explanation maintains that authoritarian states are primarily concerned with geopolitical interests. Both explanations can ...

El presente artículo está dedicado al examen de Cultura china y Capricornio en tanto publicaciones pioneras que, durante los años 50 y 60, mientras se deterioraban las relaciones entre China y la Unión Soviética y antes ...

In French, nouns denoting occupations and offices usually have different forms for males and females (e.g. pharmacien 'male pharmacist' - pharmacienne 'female pharmacist'). In Norwegian, this is a very marginal phenomenon. ...

I 2020 er det 100 år siden Jeanne d’Arc ble kanonisert. Til tross for at hun har en sterk tilhørighet til den katolske kirke, har både venstre- og høyresiden forsøkt å gjøre henne til sitt eget ikon. Denne artikkelen ser ...

El presente trabajo propone un análisis en paralelo del neocriollo, la lengua imaginaria concebida por Xul Solar, y el portunhol selvagem, una lengua literaria que, con epicentro en la Triple Frontera, se viene cultivando ...

From the perspective of Latin American Studies, this volume offers a critical contribution to the current debate on world literature. It is structured around three conceptual blocks: "gatekeepers", as the dispositives and ...

This article outlines the beginnings of corpus-based contrastive studies with special reference to the development of parallel corpora that took place in Scandinavia in the early 1990s under the direction of Stig Johansson. ...

Artikkelen er en undersøkelse av hvordan involverte aktører har arbeidet for å skape interesse for fransk filosofi blant humanistisk orienterte lesere i Norge via serien Pax Artes – både gjennom lovord og kritikk. For å ...

In this article the phrase “extreme speech” is used to encompass both hate speech and impoliteness. Legislation against hate speech has been passed in many countries, while work on defining phenomena related to hate speech ...

This paper analyses tense marking in Norwegian chess columns, a specific genre that reports mainly two kinds of events: actual chess moves played in the game under discussion vs. counterfactual, alternative chess moves ...

Este artigo relata a preparação da anotação da coleção ELTeC-por com entidades mencionadas apropriadas ao género textual "romances e novelas publicadas entre 1840 e 1920", para possibilitar a leitura distante em ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

This article presents the first interpretation of a 5th century proto-Norse runic inscription discovered in 2017 at Øverby, Østfold, Norway: “Cut runes in, skilled iril, for Isni”. The meaning of the word iril is discussed ...

Studies on mind-wandering frequently use reading as an experimental task. In these studies, reading is conceived as a cognitive process that potentially offers a contrast to mind-wandering, because it seems to be task-related, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Drawing on cognitive linguistic and narratological conceptualisations of “frames” and “framing” (notably Quendler 2008, 2010) and taking up Grishakova’s (2009: 188) notion of frames as “a link between the ‘real-life’ and ...

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 ...

Conceptions of a New Religion. God as Utopia in the Works of J.P. Jacobsen and R.M. Rilke

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 ...

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 ...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in Boston in 1852, instantly became a phenomenal bestseller in Europe as well as in the USA. This article inquires into the book history of translated fiction in Norway between 1814 and 1857, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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: ...