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The construction of Male Identity in Shakespeare: Ambition and the Corruption of Masculinity in Macbeth and Richard Ⅲ.
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The ‘Made in China 2025’ Discourse in Norwegian Newspapers
(Master thesis, 2024-11-20)I denne oppgaven har jeg gjennomført en korpusbasert kritisk diskursanalysemetode for å undersøke hvordan norske aviser framstiller Kina. Hoveddelen av analysen har brukt van Dijks “ideological square” for å vurdere ... -
Cuentos (1880) de Eduarda Mansilla de García. La creación del lector infantil en Argentina.
(Master thesis, 2024-11-20)This master`s thesis contributes to the study of what is considered the first Argentinian children’s book, Cuentos (1880) by Eduarda Mansilla de García. I have used Mansilla`s prologue as my guiding framework to decipher ... -
ADUA di Igiaba Scego: un’analisi dell'identità postcoloniale
(Master thesis, 2024-11-20)I denne oppgaven analyserer jeg romanen Adua (2015) av Igiaba Scego i lys av postkolonial teori. Igiaba Sceco (f. 1974) er en italiensk-somalisk forfatter bosatt i Roma som har skrevet en rekke romaner og noveller. Scego ... -
"She was a Woman; He was a Dog": A feminist reading of anthropomorphism and metamorphosis as tropes in two animal stories: Virginia Woolf's Flush and Rachel Yoder's Nightbitch.
(Master thesis, 2024-12-04)Denne masteroppgaven er en feministisk undersøkelse gjennom den teoretiske rammen “animal studies” om hvordan de litterære virkemidlene antropomorfisme og metamorfose fungerer i to dyrefortellinger for å belyse aspekter ... -
Troverdighet, detaljer og latter: Svetlana Aleksijevitsjs Krigen har intet kvinnelig ansikt som traumebearbeidelse
(Master thesis, 2024-11-20)In this Master’s thesis in Russian literature, I explore Svetlana Alexievich’s first book The Unwomanly Face of War. The main aim of this thesis is to examine war literature that challenges totalitarian official narratives ... -
"There Must Be Something in Books” : Literature, Censorship, and Imaginaries in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Lois Lowry’s The Giver
(Master thesis, 2024-11-20)Literary censorship is rising in contemporary America. What is it with the literary form and the imaginary that threatens a society to the extent a censor bans or restricts public access to books? This thesis examines ... -
Questioni di genere in Italia - costruzione e ricostruzione delle identità attraverso la lingua
(Master thesis, 2024-09-02)Masteroppgaven presenterer en oversikt over sexistiske vaner i det italienske språket fra et sosiolingvistisk synspunkt ved å undersøke de grunnleggende begrepene og problemstillingene der. Studiefeltet belyser sameksistensen ... -
Representation des personnages âgés et mythe de l'eternel retour dans la Terre d'Emile Zola.
(Master thesis, 2024-09-02)This study examines the representation of elderly characters in The Soil (or La Terre) through the lens of the myth of the eternal return. The initial hypothesis was that the elderly protagonists in The Soil were represented ... -
"Educación, Estado y religión en el Diario de los Niños (1839-1840)"
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Este trabajo se centra en el Diario de los Niños (1839-1840), primera publicación periódica infantil moderna de México. Aunque estudios anteriores lo han situado en el contexto de la formación de México como nación emergente, ... -
Academic Vocabulary in L2 English Education: Exploring Norwegian-speaking students' knowledge, awareness, and conceptions
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-11-01)Denne avhandlingen undersøker kunnskap og bevissthet om akademisk vokabular, altså en kjerne av akademiske ord som er mer frekvent i akademiske tekster enn i hverdagsspråk (e.g., Coxhead, 2000; Gardner & Davies, 2014), hos ... -
Russia – the “True Europe” or a “Unique Civilization”?: Towards a Genealogy of two Post-Soviet Ideas
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)“Russia as the true Europe” has become a popular idea in Russian political discourse and ideology production. However, it conflicts with another dominant commonplace idea: “Russia as non-Western” or “Russia as a unique, ... -
Nonmanual Marking of Questions in Balinese Homesign Interactions: a Computer-Vision Assisted Analysis
(Chapter, 2024)In recent years, both linguistic resources and computer-based tools have been developed that make it possible to investigate research questions that have not been studied before. In this study, we conduct a study of nonmanual ... -
Sharing interview questions in advance: Methodological considerations in applied linguistics research
(Journal article, 2024)Interviews serve as a prominent methodological tool in applied linguistics and beyond, allowing researchers to explore participants’ experiences, ideologies and beliefs. Yet, the extent to which interview questions are ... -
Eye Blink Detection in Sign Language Data Using CNNs and Rule-Based Methods
(Chapter, 2024)Eye blinks are used in a variety of sign languages as prosodic boundary markers. However, no cross-linguistic quantitative research on eye blinks exists. In order to facilitate such research in future, we develop and test ... -
La théorie décliniste de Michel Houellebecq : l’exemple du traitement des personnes âgées dans Anéantir.
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15) -
"Salvaged out of the Sea of the Incomputable": Gnostic Metaphysics in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris
(Master thesis, 2024-01-07) -
Identifying opposition against increased carbon tax and reduced red meat consumption
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Identifying the individual characteristics that predict climate policy support can inform strategies to increase support for climate policies. This study examines how individual characteristics predict support for two ... -
Controverses du changement climatique : la représentation des paroles d’autrui dans les pages de discussion sur Wikipédia francophone et norvégien
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Résumé Le présent article se propose d’explorer l’encyclopédie collaborative Wikipédia au prisme de deux aspects ayant particulièrement intéressé Kjersti Fløttum au fil de ses travaux : (i) la crise climatique, qui sera ...