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Synthesizing a policy-relevant perspective from the three IPCC "Worlds"-A comparison of topics and frames in the SPMs of the Fifth Assessment Report
(Elsevier, 2016-05)The paper investigates topics, emphases, frames and absences in the Summary for Policymakers parts of the three Working Group reports in the IPCC 5th Assessment Report and the Summary for Policymakers of the Synthesis ...Journal article -
Climate Change in Cameroon Political Discourse: A Case Study of Paul Biya's COP21 Speech
(Bergen Open Access Publishing, 2017)As climate change has occupied a growing space in public debates in recent years, various institutional frameworks have been developed to enable discussion of this issue across areas and borders. The most important of such ...Journal article -
Person deixis in Japanese and English - a Contrastive Functional Analysis
(The University of Bergen, 2017-12-15)This dissertation is a contrastive analysis of person deixis in English and Japanese. Person deixis is the linguistic reference to discourse participant roles, i.e. expressions referring to the speaker, listener and to ...Doctoral thesis -
Rôles d’auteur et références à d’autres sources. Comparaison entre écrit et oral
(CHIMERA Romance Corpora and Linguistic Studies, 2017)Cette contribution se centre sur la dimension énonciative du discours scientifique. Nous prenons appui sur des typologies éprouvées par nos recherches antérieures sur le genre de l'article de recherche dans des langues ...Journal article -
Voix citées dans le discours sur le changement climatique : comparaison de deux textes journalistiques français et anglais
(Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, 2013)This paper aims to explore journalistic discourse about climate change, as it manifests itself in the written press. Our corpus comprises journalistic texts from six different countries, covering the large international ...Journal article -
Il y a polyphonie et polyphonie
(Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, 2014)Journal article -
Linguistic mediation of climate change discourse
(Geras, 2014)For several decades, the natural sciences have documented causes and effects of climate change, with all its complexity and inherent uncertainty. This global challenge is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity ...Journal article -
INGlish English. The progressive construction in learner narratives
(The University of Bergen, 2017-06-20)The topic of the present thesis is the English progressive construction BE + V-ing; more specifically, as used by young L1 Norwegian learners of L2 English and same-age nativespeakers. The study is form-based and thus ...Doctoral thesis -
IPCC communicative practices: A linguistic comparison of the Summary for Policymakers 2007 and 2013
(Copenhagen Business School, Department of International Culture and Communication Studies (IKK) and Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics (ISV), 2014)The present paper undertakes an analysis of language use in two so-called Summaries for policymakers (SPMs), published as part of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Assessment Reports 4 (AR4, 2007) and 5 ...Journal article -
Explaining topic prevalence in answers to open-ended survey questions about climate change
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015)Citizens’ opinions are crucial for action on climate change, but are, owing to the complexity of the issue, diverse and potentially unformed1. We contribute to the understanding of public views on climate change and to ...Journal article -
A linguistic framework for studying voices and positions in the climate debate
(De Gruyter, 2014-07)The public debate on the highly contested issue of climate change is characterized by a multitude of voices as well as position taking by the social actors involved. Studies involving the climate issue have emanated from ...Journal article -
Representations of the future in English language blogs on climate change
(Elsevier, 2014-11)This paper investigates how the notion of future is represented in a large corpus of English-language blogs related to climate change, with an overarching interest in exploring to what extent the perspectives of ...Journal article -
Migrantnarrativer som interkulturell døråpner? En pilotanalyse av læreverktekster i fransk, italiensk og spansk
(Institutt for lærerutdanning og skoleforskning , Universitetet i Oslo, 2017)Artikkelen tar opp fremmedspråkenes formidling av interkulturell kompetanse, og hvordan denne er knyttet til skolens samlede danningsprosjekt. Artikkel-forfatterne diskuterer hvordan migrantnarrativer kan brukes som ...Journal article -
Norske klimanarrativer – hvor mange “fortellinger”? En lingvistisk og diskursiv analyse av to norske stortingsmeldinger
(Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier, Universitetet i Oslo, 2014)This article explores how climate change is framed in the Norwegian White Papers on Climate Policy and on the High North (2011–2012). Scientific as well as political representations of climate change influence individual ...Journal article -
Petersburgmyten i russisk litteratur: Fra opposisjon til stagnasjon? : Et kulturologisk studium av tekster fra 1700-2000
(The University of Bergen, 2007-03-22)Målet med denne kulturologiske studien er å undersøke petersburgmyten i russisk litteratur. Mitt fokus er rettet mot spørsmålet om denne myten har stagnert, slik enkelte forskere hevder, eller om den er fremdeles er ...Master thesis -
Cuba fue diferente. El derrumbe del socialismo euro-soviético visto desde el Partido Comunista de Cuba (1989-1992 y 2013)
(The University of Bergen, 2017-04-28)The Collapse of European-Soviet Socialism (1989-1991, “the collapse”) created a profound socio-economic crisis in Cuba, and also had a strong political-ideological impact on this Caribbean nation. Many observers ...Doctoral thesis -
Joys and Challenges of Writing. How adult students in a multicultural EFL classroom respond to process oriented writing.
(Universitetet i Bergen (UiB), 2016-10-29)Voksenopplæring er et felt som har fått stadig større aktualitet de siste tiårene både i Norge og internasjonalt. Dette henger sammen med økt migrasjon, globalisering og store, raske endringer i arbeidslivet knyttet til ...Master thesis -
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Hva trenger tolkestudenten for å lære?
(International Studies, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, 2015)Students of public service interpreting come from a variety of backgrounds. A typical group of interpreting students includes a mix of students from different immigrant communities and from Norway’s majority population ...Journal article -
Framing the Frame: Shakespeare and the Cadre
(EMRG, 2010)This article provides a conceptual introduction to the notion of Framing and functions as an introduction. n Framing the Sign, Jonathan Culler privileges the term frame over context (ix). Culler states that framing a work ...Journal article
