• Latin-Amerika-norsk: Noen første observasjoner 

  Kinn, Kari; Stokka, Marie Lund; Pajaro, Veronica (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Norsk som arvespråk i USA og Canada, også kjent som amerikanorsk, er et forskningsfelt med lange tradisjoner. Norsk som arvespråk i andre kontekster er derimot nærmest ukjent terreng. Denne artikkelen presenterer noen ...

• The Norwegian language in Argentina: A first look at heritage Norwegian in a new context 

  Kinn, Kari; Hjelde, Arnstein; Stokka, Marie Lund (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  This paper presents preliminary observations of Norwegian as a heritage language (HL) in a contact situation that has largely gone unnoticed up until now: Argentina, where Spanish is the main contact language. We discuss ...

• Sluttrapport. Revisjon av Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordboka – Revisjonsprosjektet 

  Rauset, Margunn (Research report, 2025)

• Better letter: Iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language 

  Börstell, Carl (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  While iconicity has sometimes been defined as meaning transparency, it is better defined as a subjective phenomenon bound to an individual’s perception and influenced by their previous language experience. In this article, ...

• Synthetic probes: A qualitative experiment in latent space exploration 

  de Seta, Gabriele (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  This essay outlines a methodological approach for the qualitative study of generative artificial intelligence models. After introducing the epistemological challenges faced by users of generative models, I argue that these ...

• Media and gender: A Nordic perspective 

  Askanius, Tina; Rettberg, Jill Walker; Skogerbø, Eli (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

• Challenging Precarization: Maria Navarro Skaranger’s Portrait of a Young Mother in 'Emily Forever' (2021) 

  Hamm, Christine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)

  The article argues that Maria Navarro Skaranger’s novel Emily forever (2021) can be interpreted as a comment on the situation of young mothers in contemporary Norway. The main character is a 19-year-old pregnant woman who ...

• Decoding Metadiscourse Markers in Estonian Academic Texts: A Language-Specific Perspective 

  Hint, Helen; Lemendik, Helena; Johansson, Christer; Leijen, Djuddah A. J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  This article presents the development of a specialized data set for analyzing Estonian metadiscourse markers in academic usage, extending Hyland's interpersonal metadiscourse model to a non–Indo-European language. Our goal ...

• Strangely enough: The rise of a sentence-adverbial construction 

  Kinn, Torodd (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Previous research has found that Norwegian has one productive sentence-adverbial construction, viz. expressions such as underlig nok ‘strangely enough’. Their constituents are an adjective in the positive indefinite singular ...

• Naturfantasier i Ausonius' Mosella 

  Strand, Anders Kristian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  I artikkelen diskuterer jeg Ausonius’ dikt fra senantikken, Mosella, om elven med samme navn og med særlig oppmerksomhet rettet mot dens rekke av elve-ekfraser (v. 150–239). Med utgangspunkt i dikterens uttalelse om at han ...

• Motherhood, Marriage, and Swimming in the Sea - Allegorical Readings in Sara Stridsberg’s 'Happy Sally' (2004) and Inger Bråtveit’s 'Dette er også vatn' (2018) 

  Hamm, Christine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  This article explores women’s relationship to the sea and contributes with a gender perspective to Humanistic Ocean studies. In Swedish author Sara Stridsberg’s novel Happy Sally (2004) and Norwegian author Inger Bråtveit’s ...

• ‘A distant echo attracts me, fragrance of life beyond’: growing up a metalhead in India 

  Sarkar, Debarun (Journal article, 2025)

  The paper is an account of growing up a metalhead in a suburb of a city in south Gujarat and then in Kolkata. The paper situates the author’s experience of growing up in a suburb of a non-metropolitan city in India as a ...

• Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models 

  de Seta, Gabriele; Pohjonen, Matti; Knuutila, Aleksi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Advancements in generative artificial intelligence have led to a rapid proliferation of machine learning models capable of synthesizing text, images, sounds, and other kinds of content. While the increasing realism of ...

• A cross-linguistic study of lexical and derived antonymy 

  Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria; Miestamo, Matti; Börstell, Carl (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Antonymy is the lexical relation of opposition. The nature of the oppositeness may differ – e.g., contradictory (‘true’–‘false’) or gradable (‘tall’–‘short’) – and there may be variation as to the relationship in their ...

• Sign duration and signing rate in British Sign Language, Dutch Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language 

  Börstell, Carl Anders; Schembri, Adam; Crasborn, Onno (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  In this article, we look at sign duration and signing rate in corpora of three sign languages – British Sign Language (BSL), Dutch Sign Language (NGT), and Swedish Sign Language (STS). We investigate whether token frequency ...

• Cross-linguistic patterns of meta-discourse: Disciplinary Similarities and Section-based differences 

  Leijen, Djuddah; Hint, Helen; Lemendik, Helena; Egle, Baiba; Ruskan, Anna; Johansson, Christer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  This study examines metadiscourse markers across a corpus of Estonian and Lithuanian journal articles in the field of linguistics. We aim to 1) compare the global use of all the metadiscourse markers across the languages ...

• Tracing the Image : The Absence/Presence of the Holy Shroud in Sixteenth-Century Bologna. 

  Smith, Samantha Leanne (Doctoral thesis, 2025-03-14)

  På sporet av bildet: Fraværet/nærværet av Det Hellige Likkledet (Likkledet i Torino) i 1500-tallets Bologna. I kunsthistoriefaget blir renessansen ofte ansett som en grunnleggende hjørnestein i etableringen av det moderne ...

• Figures of Emancipation: Organicist Imagery between Romanticism and Darwinism 

  Bohlin, Anna Mariana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  Feminist theory in the early twentieth century built on a tradition of feminist thought in literature. I use linguistic theories of the metaphor to argue that the imagery in the Nordic emancipation novels of the 1850s may ...

• Motherboard: Chad’s Journey: A Serious Game About Smartphone Addiction 

  Thorsheim, Trygve Engjom (Master thesis, 2024-11-20)

• Prophecies of Doom in the Íslendingasögur 

  Cowan, Saskia Jamie (Master thesis, 2024-11-20)

  Denne masteroppgaven, med tittelen “Prophecies of Doom in the Íslendingasögur” skrevet av Saskia J. Cowan, analyserer undergangsspådomer ifra tre Íslendingasögur, nemlig Gísla saga Súrssonar, Brennu-Njáls saga og Grettis ...

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