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Estudio dialectológico perceptual de las Antillas hispánicas
(University of Bergen, 2019-12-10)In this paper I analyzed the Spanish - speaking Caribbean´s dialectal perceptions (Cubans, Puerto Ricans and Dominicans), in order to know the mental delimitation of the linguistic area to which their varieties are ...Journal article -
El voseo panameño: Situación actual y actitudes ante su uso
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2019)El presente estudio intenta rastrear, a manera de trabajo empírico piloto, la situación en que se encuentra el tratamiento de vos en algunas regiones de Panamá, en específico en la mitad occidental del ...Journal article -
Einstellungen und Erfahrungen von Lehramtsstudierenden zur Mehrsprachigkeitsorientierung im Deutschunterricht
(German as a Foreign Language (GFL), 2019)Diese Studie analysiert die Erfahrungen und Einstellungen von drei norwegischen Lehramtsstudierenden im Fach Deutsch, die sich im universitären Unterricht zum ersten Mal mit dem Thema Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik beschäftigten ...Journal article -
The Quest for Identity Through Bodily Pain. Female Abjection in the literary work of Igiaba Scego
(Exeley, 2019)This article addresses how (cultural) identity in Igiaba Scego’s literary works is achieved through a struggle of bodily pain. Narrating from a female point of view, Scego explores in depth the female migrant condition ...Journal article -
'Thone vpon thother' - On pronouns one and other with initial th- and t- in Middle English
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019)A frequent result produced by a search of the digital corpora of Middle English (henceforth ME) for instances of reduced th’ is a nominal involving the pronouns one or other with initial th- or t- attached. In this study ...Chapter -
Climate change as a corporate strategy issue: A discourse analysis of three climate reports from the energy sector
(Emerald, 2019)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how energy companies discursively construct climate change when integrating it into their overall business strategy. Design/methodology/approach – This linguistic study ...Journal article -
Lingua e spazio urbano a Roma nel racconto di Ettore Scola. Il caso di Una giornata particolare (1977)
(BOAP, 2019-11-07)This article aims to focus on two main aspects of Rome urban space vision and representation through Ettore Scola’s filmography: on the one hand, we try to decode the interconnections between languages and cinematic ...Journal article -
Actitudes lingüísticas de los hispanohablantes hacia su propia lengua: nuevos alcances
(De Gruyter, 2019)Most research works on language attitudes, which have been done within the Hispanic world, deal with issues where Spanish is usually confronted with other languages (American Indian languages, Catalan, Valencian, Galician, ...Journal article -
Queer Touch Between Holy Women: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Birgitta of Sweden, and the Visitation
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)This essay takes a new approach to the well-known meeting between two late-medieval English visionary women, Margery Kempe and the anchoress Julian of Norwich, as described in The Book of Margery Kempe. In this analysis ...Chapter -
La polyphonie discursive: un modèle ancré sur la ScaPoLine et le dialogisme
(BOAP, 2019-11-14)The present work is intended as a contribution to the development of a discourse polyphony approach. Polyphony in language studies can take different meanings depending on the various approaches as Nølke, Fløttum, and Norén ...Journal article -
The Work of the Witness: Leonard Woolf, Imperialism, and Totalitarianism
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)Starting from an interest in witnessing as a set of conceptual and narrative operations that also involve comparison as a fundamental cognitive practice, this essay examines the work of the witness at two historically ...Journal article -
Triple Consciousness: The Reimagination of Black Female Identities in Contemporary American Culture
(De Gruyter, 2018-10-18)My article underscores the intermediate existence of black American women between race and gender by stressing the role white patriarchy and black hypermasculinity play in the marginalisation of black female voices and the ...Journal article -
Genre Polyphony in African American Literature : Dialogic Readings of Jean Toomer’s Cane, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Toni Morrison’s Love
(The University of Bergen, 2020-03-27)This dissertation takes as its point of departure and explores through textual analysis the idea that African American texts are aesthetically hybrid constructions that, in their origin, draw on two main cultural and textual ...Doctoral thesis -
Voix, silences et colonialisme
(University of Bergen, 2019-11-11)Asking whether silence necessarily equals oppression, and (giving) voice necessarily assures agency, Jorunn Svensen Gjerden’s paper examines voices and silences related to colonial power structures in three francophone ...Journal article -
Herodotus, Dionysus, and the Greek death taboo. The Homeric hymn to Demeter and the construction of the "chthonic" in Greek literary tradition
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)Herodotus’ explicit avoidance of the mentioning of divine names and matters in the second book of the Histories counts in most cases as instances of the Greek taboo concerning the relation of gods to the impurity of death, ...Journal article -
Poetologie der Prozessualität und schreibendes Erinnern in Thomas Bernhards Die Autobiographie
(The University of Bergen, 2019-01-25)“Ich bin ein Geschichtenzerstörer, ich bin der typische Geschichtenzerstörer” – “I am a story destroyer, I am the typical story destroyer”, Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) says in the film manuscript Drei Tage (1970). The ...Doctoral thesis -
La polyphonie dans le discours climatique officiel du Cameroun 2005-2017
(The University of Bergen, 2019-11-08)The present thesis has two complementary objectives: one empirical goal and one theoretical challenge. The interpretation of Cameroon official discourse on climate change is the primary aim. However, to achieve this, the ...Doctoral thesis -
Représentations de la femme africana dans « le cycle de l’ombre et la lumière » de Léonora Miano
(The University of Bergen, 2019-11-06)This research focuses on the image of black women in Léonora Miano’s African-themed novels. They form the “cycle de l’ombre et la lumière” which is made up of La Saison de l’ombre, the trilogy “Suite Africaine” composed ...Doctoral thesis -
Popular Spaces : Space, Race, and Gender in Four Post-Apartheid Novels
(The University of Bergen, 2019-08-13)This study investigates engagements with space, race and gender in the post-apartheid South African literature. It examines how Niq Mhlongo’s After Tears (2007), Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut (2007), Kgebetli Moele’s Room 207 ...Doctoral thesis -
KIAP - reflexions on a complex corpus
(The University of Bergen, 2013-04-10)In this article we describe the KIAP corpus, a corpus of 450 research articles covering three disciplines (economics, linguistics and medicine) and three languages (English, French and Norwegian) located at the University ...Journal article
