Malaysia’s international image boasts harmonious multiculturalism amongst Malay, Chinese, Indian and Indigenous ethnolinguistic groups, alluring tourists and investors worldwide. Campaigns such as Malaysia, Truly Asia ...

This article brings the critical turn in linguistics—with its current scepticism towards essentialised languages and bias for languaging—under critical evaluation. It does so by bringing it face-to-face with the local-knowledge ...

The aim of the present paper is to present a new development in language anxiety research, namely the distinction between majority language anxiety and heritage language anxiety. While the former can be particularly acute ...

Throughout my career, I’ve had several involuntary engagements with looting, collectors and the academics who are involved in supporting these activities. The Norwegian Schøyen case is an illuminating and internationally ...

David Hunter has recently argued (in this journal) that Donald Davidson and Elizabeth Anscombe were in basic agreement about practical knowledge. In this reply, it is my contention that Hunter’s fascinating claim may not ...

Transmission views of testimony hold that a speaker's knowledge or justification can become the audience's knowledge or justification. We argue that transmission views are incompatible with the hypothesis that one's epistemic ...

Review of "T. Douglas Price: Ancient Scandinavia. An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings" and more general discussion of curriculum in archaeological training

Norway’s ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities has had a profound impact on Norwegian minority language policies. ...

Background: eHealth programs may be better understood by breaking down the components of one particular program and discussing its potential for interactivity and tailoring in regard to concepts from face-to-face counseling. ...

Aims and objectives: This study examines the language anxiety that occurs in immigrants’ daily lives when speaking the heritage language and the majority language, both in their host country and during visits to their home ...

This paper examines the motivations behind Malaysia’s national language policy in theoretical terms to allow the Malaysian narrative to be positioned in an international context. To do this, it applies Spolsky’s (2004) ...

The postmodern and critical movements in language policy, with their redefinition of governmentality and attention to power structures, call for localised perspectives on language arrangements. In this way, a polity, in ...

Cappelen and Dever have recently defended the view that indexicals are not essential: They do not signify anything philosophically deep and we do not need indexicals for any important philosophical work. This paper contests ...

A major challenge facing South Africa is that of reconstructing a meaningful and inclusive notion of citizenship in the aftermath of its apartheid past and in the face of narratives of divisiveness that reach back from ...

Language policies are born amidst the complex interplay of social, cultural, religious and political forces. With this in mind, Bernard Spolsky theorises that the language policy of any independent nation is driven, at its ...

In this paper, we present a study of tonal patterns of Accentual Phrases (APs) in spontaneous speech produced by ten Second Language (L2) speakers of Norwegian. The speakers are multilingual, and their dominant language ...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the sociolinguistic discussion about the need for a unified sociological theory, by applying realist social theory (RST) (Carter and Sealey, this volume) to the total linguistic ...

The study of the linguistic landscape has provided a new dimension to theories and issues related to multilingualism, including language policy. In this growing field of inquiry, however, not enough attention has been given ...

There are certain differences between Turkish as spoken in the Netherlands (NL-Turkish) and Turkish as spoken in Turkey (TR-Turkish). These differences concern issues of linguistic variation and change in immigrant communities ...

This study provides evidence that the role of the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) in substrate languages is reflected in prosodic systems of contact varieties of French. We have compared two contact varieties: Central ...

Globalization has brought English language to all corners of the globe. English is the pervasive language of international connectivity and even penetrates borders to assume roles within other language communities. Iceland, ...

"It is not a contingent fact that I cannot bring it about, just like that, that I believe something . . . Why is this? One reason is connected with the characteristic of beliefs that they aim at the truth." (Williams ...

What makes funk sound as funk? How is the interplay of musical events and the experience of being in funk? And why is the Western understanding of funk as it is? This study in the classic funk grooves of James Brown and ...

Poetikk er læren om diktekunstens vesen, former og virkemidler. Denne avhandlingen utreder de litterære fremtredelsesformene og virkemidlene i Camilla Wergelands dagbok. Dagboken er vår kilde til kjærlighetsfortellingen ...

«Jeg har nærmest en aversjon mot nasjonal rosemaling», uttalte komponisten Finn Mortensen. Han sto i 1950-årene i spissen for den modernistiske kretsen av komponister og musikere som stilte seg kritiske til den nasjonalt ...

Codeswitching is briefly defined as the use of two or more languages, dialects, etc. within the same flow of discourse. This study describes and analyses a data set of Turkish/Norwegian codeswitching in an immigrant language ...

Da det nyopprettede Statens Filmdirektorat, under norske nazisters ledelse, startet produkusjonen av en egen norsk filmrevy i august 1941, var denne tiltenkt en viktig plass innenfor Nasjonal Samlings propagandaapparat. ...

Er det mulig å unngå stereotypiene av det etniske? Og hva kan vi eventuelt bruke dem til? Avhandlingen Hvite løgner/sorte myter det etniske på modernitetens scene tar for seg stereotypier av det etniske i moderne teater ...

Heimskringla, i Norge bedre kjent som Snorres kongesagaer , er overlevert gjennom flere håndskrifter fra middelalderen. Det viktigste av disse ble kalt Kringla. Det in var skrevet på Island midt på 1200-tallet og inneholdt ...

Et ekteskapsløfte er et første skritt mot et følelsesmessig og økonomisk fellesskap som ideelt sett skal vare livet ut. Men i tidsrommet fra et løfte blir utvekslet til bryllup blir feiret vil det alltid være risiko for ...