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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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. ...

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 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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 three-part study considers adjectival modification in Old English noun phrases from a micro-level perspective. In the first part, I outline and discuss Fischer’s (2000, 2001, 2006, 2012) and Haumann’s (2003, 2010) ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

«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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

«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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 paper discusses the communicative function of declarative sentences used as polar questions in French and Norwegian:
 (1a) - Inger Holter jobbet i en bar?
 (1b) -  Inger Holter bossait dans un bar ?
 These ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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, ...

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. ...

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 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 ...

In my article-based PhD thesis, entitled Interests and Arguments: Towards an Analytic Philosophy of Textual Scholarship (Interessen und Argumente. Vorstudien zu einer analytischen Philosophie der Editionsphilologie), I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...