Department of Linguistics, Literary and Aestetic Studies
Recent Submissions
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Stability and attrition in American Norwegian nominals: a view from predicate nouns
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This study investigates the extent to which speakers of American Norwegian (AmNo), a heritage language spoken in the United States and Canada, use the indefinite article in classifying predicate constructions (‘He is (a) ... -
Situated data analysis: a new method for analysing encoded power relationships in social media platforms and apps
(Journal article, 2020)This paper proposes situated data analysis as a new method for analyzing social media platforms and digital apps. An analysis of the fitness tracking app Strava is used as a case study to develop and illustrate the method. ... -
Eyebrow position in grammatical and emotional expressions in Kazakh-Russian Sign Language: A quantitative study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06)Facial expressions in sign languages are used to express grammatical functions, such as question marking, but can also be used to express emotions (either the signer’s own or in constructed action contexts). Emotions and ... -
Get lost, troll: How accusations of trolling in newspaper comment sections affect the debate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This qualitative study explores instances where someone is accused of being a troll or a bot in newspaper comment sections. Trolls have been known to create a hostile environment in comment sections, often motivated by ... -
De politiske gruppeteatrene i Norge : Estetisk-politiske virkemidler og kollektive praksiser: Svartkatten, Pendlerne, Hålogaland Teater, Perleporten og Tramteatret
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-19)The dissertation: «De politiske gruppeteatrene i Norge – Estetisk-politiske virkemidler og kollektive praksiser: Svartkatten, Pendlerne, Hålogaland Teater, Perleporten og Tramteatret» has as its main research focus the ... -
Perleporten – et post-brechtiansk teater?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)I denne artikkelen viser jeg til Perleporten Teatergruppes særegne formspråk i forestillingene Knoll & Tott (1975) og i Jug meg en saga (1976), og hvordan formspråket er et resultat av gruppens politiske ståsted og anarkistisk ... -
Temporalitet i morsmål, målspråk og mellomspråk
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Handbuch der norrönen Philologie. Bd. 1
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How an Academic Companion Website Makes Media-Specific Arguments
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In this digital project review, I discuss the companion website CriticalCodeStudies.com in relation to Mark C. Marino’s book Critical Code Studies (2020). Over the past decades, companion websites have become a small but ... -
Halls Haunted by the Past: Old Germanic Heritage and “Völkisch” Architecture in the German Empire
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The article deals with uses of the past in art and architecture within networks and associations of the völkisch movement of the German Empire around 1900. It takes the völkisch painter Hermann Hendrich as an example and ... -
Gemina nox: Pornographic allusion in Catullus 51
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Catullus 51 may be read as a description of the sexual act of mutual oral-to-genital stimulation popularly known as ‘69’, suggesting a facetious misreading of Sappho 31. In v. 8, supply <tum nisi cunnus>. -
Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordboka – einegga, toegga eller siamesiske tvillingar?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Bokmålsordboka and Nynorskordboka represent the two official Norwegian written varieties, Bokmål and Nynorsk. This article discusses whether their current digitized versions should be considered as two separate dictionaries ... -
Aeschylus' Supplices: Introduction and Commentary on vv. 1-523
(Doctoral thesis, 2005)Aeschylus’ (525–456 B.C.) drama the Suppliant women (Greek Hikétides, Lat. Supplices) is all certain to be the first in a trilogy of tragedies with appurtenant comic epilogue, ‘satyr-play’. The other two tragedies and the ... -
Staging Perception : Theatricalities in Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-09-13)Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) abounds with references to the theatre, and its characters are often described in theatrical terms, as spectators and performers in the fictional universe of the ... -
Bildet som paradigme : En analyse av forholdet mellom bilder og vitenskapelig kunnskap i astronomien.
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-09-17)Picture as paradigm: an analysis of the relationship between images and scientific knowledge in astronomy. This thesis analyses and discusses the relationship between images and scientific knowledge in astronomy through ... -
Clause structure, pro-drop and control in Wolof: an LFG/XLE perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This paper provides a formal description of the syntactic analysis of core constructions of Wolof clausal/verbal morphosyntax within the Lexical-Functional Grammar formalism. This includes the basic phrase structure, ... -
Theatre Studies 3.0. Introduction
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Travelling Narratives and Images in Times of Migration
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Migrant narratives and aesthetic practices influenced by experiences of exile and migration constitute a growing field in contemporary art and literature. Current trends in migration and globalisation have led to an increase ... -
Kontinuitet og fornyelse i teatret: En analyse av scenografi og regi i Gengangere på Den Nationale Scene
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Denne artikkelen viser gjennom en rekke oppsetninger av Gengangere på Den Nationale Scene hvordan teaterforestillingen blir stadig mer selvstendig og gradvis løsrevet fra tekstgrunnlaget. Teatret blir skapende ut fra sine ... -
Karl Frederik Kinch - a Danish pioneer in Thessaloniki
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The Danish archaeologist and philologist Karl Frederik Kinch (1853-1921) is probably best known for his investigations on Rhodes, where, together with Christian Blinkenberg, he led the excavations on the acropolis of Lindos ...