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Codeswitching on Ghanaian radio talk-shows: "Bilingualism as an asset"
(Master thesis, 2015-05-13)Codeswitching (CS) between Akan and English in recent times has become a tool used on Akan radio, to disseminate information in Ghana. This study explored the functions CS plays during formal interaction on Akan radio ... -
Cognitive and social interaction in cyberspace:Prosthetic functions of the Internet
(Master thesis, 2014-05-30)This is a qualitative social constructivist research of individuals living in the area of Bergen and their daily Internet use. I argue that we are living in a prosthetic culture within the cyberculture. Cyberspace is ... -
Cognitive predictors of shallow-orthography spelling speed and accuracy in 6th grade children
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Spelling accuracy and time course was investigated in a sample of 100 Norwegian 6th grade students completing a standardized spelling-to-dictation task. Students responded by keyboard with accurate recordings of response-onset ... -
Collocations and statistical analysis of n-grams: Multiword expressions in newspaper text
(Studies in Corpus Linguistics, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2012)Multiword expressions (MWEs) are words that co-occur so often that they are perceived as a linguistic unit. Since MWEs pervade natural language, their identification is pertinent for a range of tasks within lexicography, ... -
Comment sections and their role in a democratic society
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-09-27)Kommentarfelt lar lesere uttrykke seg offentlig innen en rekke temaer, gjør det mulig med direkte tilbakemelding til journalister og redaktører, og de kan potensielt legge til rette for en demokratisk verdifull offentlig ... -
A comparative OT-analysis of tone in three East Norwegian dialects
(Chapter, 2007-01)The manuscript complements and enlarges upon the analysis given in the paper “Dialect variation in East Norwegian tone”, published in Tones and Tunes. Typological and Comparative Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody I, ... -
Compilation as “heutige Bildung”: Philological and Philosophical Perspectives on Compilation in Friedrich Schlegel’s Lessings Gedanken und Meinungen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article considers the role of compilation in the work of Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), with particular emphasis on his anthology Lessings Gedanken und Meinungen (1803–1804). While compilation was often derided in ... -
Complexity in Translation. An English-Norwegian Study of Two Text Types
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-11-04)The present study discusses two primary research questions. Firstly, we have tried to investigate to what extent it is possible to compute the actual translation relation found in a selection of English-Norwegian parallel ... -
Computational Models for Understanding Narrative
(Journal article, 2023)We describe how the computational modeling of narrative serves as a method of inquiry and helps to further humanistic understanding in this domain. Our focus is on our own systems, MEXICA and Curveship. Each of these two ... -
Conceptual Time Metaphor Detector
(Data set, 2013-05-09)This program analyzes English text and detects specific grammatical combinations of time expressions and relevant verbs with semantics mainly related to movement and sight. The program has been trained and tested on a ... -
Contagious "Corona" Compounding by Journalists in a CLARIN Newspaper Monitor Corpus
(Chapter, 2021)Newspaper monitor corpora, which incorporate new materials on a regular basis, are particularly useful for tracking linguistic changes spurred by current developments. The COVID19 pandemic prompted a case study in the ... -
A Contemporary Body in Classical Guise. Representation of disability in classical form and contemporary beauty norm in Alison Lapper Pregnant.
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)This master thesis looks at how people with physical disabilities have been portrayed, and is portrayed, in art. When Alison Lapper Pregnant was exhibited on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, the artwork opened up for ... -
Control and raising: Gone with(out) a trace?
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Control in a Norwegian grammar maze
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Coreference processing of Control constructions and their pronoun-containing counterparts can be studied experimentally using priming or interference paradigms. We replicate findings in a priming study on non-finite Control ... -
A Critique of Control and Black Boxes: Lit Mods of Ian Hatcher’s ‘⌰ (Total Runout)’
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article analyzes Ian Hatcher’s online and kinetic poem “⌰ (Total Runout)” (2015) from a point of view of a critique of corporate and governmental black boxing, at the level of its code, text, visual output, sound, and ... -
Cultural Appropriation of Computers in Norway 1980-2000
(Chapter, 2007)This article discusses how the discourse of computers developed in Norwegian culture between 1980 and 2000 based on empirical material from the largest Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten. The discourse analysis illustrates ... -
Cultural Syncretism and Interpicturality: The Iconography of Throne Benches in Medieval Icelandic Book Painting
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In relation to the major topic of the present volume, this article is intended to provide new methodological and iconographic insights into the cultural adaptation and integration of European iconographic motifs in the ... -
"Da hadde vært litt kult visst vi hadde snakka strilsk om hondra år." Ei sosiolingvistisk oppfølgingsgransking av talemålet i Øygarden
(Master thesis, 2010-09-01)Denne sosiolingvistiske oppfølgingsgranskinga er ein del av prosjektet Dialektendringsprosessar og tar føre seg variasjon og endring i talemålet i Øygarden. Granskinga byggjer på eit datamateriale som var innsamla av Vidar ...