Department of Foreign Languages
Recent Submissions
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Do the National Tests of English in Norway test what we think they do? A think-aloud study of the eighth-grade tests from a validity perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article applies Messick’s (1995, 1996) presentation of the substantive aspect of validity (referred to as substantive validity) to the National Tests of English (NTE), taken by eighth-grade pupils in Norway. According ... -
Linguistic landscaping from above in China: scale-making and language ideologies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The sociolinguistics of mobility is one of Jan Blommaert’s significant theoretical legacies vis-à-vis language interactions in the age of globalization. This paper investigates the mobilization of English as a semiotic ... -
The Unidentifed Birgittine Borrowing in the Meditaciones Domini Nostri
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Understanding and Framing Change in Islamic Law: Potentials and Possible Pitfalls of the Concepts of Canonization and Codification
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Conservative and populist notions of Islamic law, or Sharīʿa, emphasize its immutability. While the textual nature of traditional Islamic jurisprudence supports this conception, academic research in recent decades demonstrates ... -
Participatory Democracy and the British Utopian Tradition: Leonard Woolf’s Co-operative Commonwealth in Historical Perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article examines an understudied chapter in the history of British socialist thought: the consumer-based socialism theorized by the Fabian and Labour Party advisor Leonard Woolf between 1913 and 1920. Exemplifying ... -
Teachers’ beliefs and experiences regarding collaboration across language subjects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In schools worldwide, there are increasing expectations for teacher collaboration across subjects. However, despite the potential benefits for students and teachers of viewing language subjects as interrelated, limited ... -
Whaling: Good for the World, the Nation, and You
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article explores the evolving rhetoric of commercial whaling advocates in Japan and Norway, who frame whaling as essential for global, national, and personal health. I show that proponents leverage sustainability ... -
Understanding the factors supporting language teachers’ sustained motivation until retirement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)While many language teachers leave the profession early, others thrive and teach until retirement. Understanding how these teachers maintain their passion can help identify the support needed for their personal and ... -
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, ...
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