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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 -
By whatever name
(EMRG, 2010)This paper explores the significance of naming and the role of editing practices of Shakespeare's plays: Is it Imogen or Innogen, Falstaff or Oldcastle? By looking into how editors of Shakespeare have approached these and ...Journal article -
Rettstolking og rettssikkerhet i et norsk perspektiv
(Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, 2015)This article comprises a critical report on the status of court interpreting in Norway. The findings are based on an analysis of examples from the Bergen City Court and a survey of court interpreters in Norway. The first ...Journal article -
On the rhetorical function of existential THERE
(Institutt for kultur, litteratur og språkvitenskap ved Fakultet for humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning, UiT Norges arktiske universitet, 1999)Journal article -
Famous Hyperboreans
(Institutt for kultur, litteratur og språkvitenskap ved Fakultet for humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning, UiT Norges arktiske universitet, 2014)The individual Hyperboreans appearing in ancient literature are presented with a review of the Greek and Latin sources and collections of references. Most of the mythological characters are briefly discussed, but the ...Journal article -
Conceptual metaphors in Ukrainian primeministers’ discourse involving renewables
(De Gruyter, 2015-12-30)This qualitative study is aimed at elucidating conceptual metaphors associated with renewable energy sources (further referred to as ‘renewables’) in Ukrainian prime ministers’ (PMs) political discourse. The material derives ...Journal article -
Teachers' beliefs about multilingualism and a multilingual pedagogical approach
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-06-08)Knowledge of teachers’ beliefs is central to understanding teachers’ decision-making in the classroom. The present study explores Norwegian language teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism and the use of a multilingual ...Journal article -
Spanish teenage Language and the COLAm-corpus
(The University of Bergen, 2013)The results of the research done on Spanish teenage language with the COLAm corpus[1] of Bergen University is presented in this paper. The teenagers are trying to find their their independence, separating themselves from ...Journal article -
Different contexts, different “stories”? A linguistic comparison of two development reports on climate change
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Empty referential subjects in Old English prose: A quantitative analysis
(Routledge, 2013-12-13)As Present-Day English with but a few exceptions requires fully overt referential subject pronouns in finite clause structures, the occurrence of empty referential pronominal subjects at the Old English stage of the ...Journal article
