Department of Foreign Languages
Recent Submissions
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"Ci-a potemu fari!" Usi e atteggiamenti linguistici tra adolescenti a Catania
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-06-18)"We can do it!" Language use and attitudes among adolescents in Catania Is there a connection between overt and covert attitudes towards own dialect among Sicilian adolescents? Can these attitudes be further connected ... -
Readerly Positions and Autofictional Reading Spaces in Rachel Cusk's Kudos and David Sedaris's Calypso
(Master thesis, 2021-06-03)Denne avhandlingen tar for seg to nylig publiserte virkelighetslitterære verk: Kudos av Rachel Cusk, og Calypso av David Sedaris. Disse verkene er valgt for å vise kompleksiteten som inngår i begrepet virkelighetslitteratur, ... -
Carving the body at its joints: Does the way we speak about the body shape the way we think about it?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05)Looking at the way different linguistic communities speak about a universally shared domain of experience raises questions that are central to the language sciences. How can we compare meaning across languages? What is the ... -
Wrestling between English and Pinyin: Language politics and ideologies of coding street names in China
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper examines the code choice and contestations on street name signs in China to find out the dynamics of language politics and the language ideological debates. In China, Hanyu Pinyin and English compete for visibility ... -
Opinions about Perceived Linguistic Intelligibility in Late-Medieval Italy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article contributes to the historical study of intercomprehension between speakers of closely related languages by focusing on Italy in the period up to the mid-fifteenth century. After an introduction to the topic, ... -
A Culinary Quest : Peruvian Women Entrepreneurs in Southern California Negotiating Gender, Home, and Belonging
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-05-21)A complex context of reception shapes culinary business ownership among Peruvian immigrants in Southern California. In the United States, Latinxs are often negatively portrayed as undocumented, poor, and criminals, and ... -
Russian Civilizationism at the Turn of a New Decade: The Case of Academia
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Japanske låneord i norsk
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Denne artikkelen tar for seg forekomsten av japanske låneord i norsk. For å belyse problemstillingen er tre analoge ordbøker over låneord og fremmedord i norsk, fra ett og samme forlag, benyttet ved tre ulike tidspunkt ... -
Mind the gap: Academic vocabulary knowledge as a predictor of English grades
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Knowledge of academic English vocabulary is necessary for Norwegian speaking upper secondary students for the completion of their English course and to qualify for university studies. General academic vocabulary occurs in ... -
Pedagogical Programs for a Period of Crisis: El museo mexicano (1843-1845)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article explores the literary periodical publication El Museo mexicano (1843-1845) in order to reveal its pedagogical program. As it shows, the magazine challenges the often-assumed clear-cut separation between liberal ... -
«Om vannveier, vyer og jernbanemyter»
(Journal article, 2020)Artikkelen drøfter norsk og russisk metaforbruk knyttet til transport i et komparativt perspektiv, med særlig vekt på norsk sjø- og skipsmetaforikk og russiske jernbanemetaforer. -
Percepción lingüística y pluricentrismo: Análisis del binomio a la luz de los resultados del Proyecto Linguistic Identity and Attitudes in Spanish-speaking Latin America (LIAS)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This paper advocates the close linkage among sociolinguistic awareness and language pluricentrity and calls for a deeper exploration of this relationship, due to the fact that speakers´perceptions towards different language ... -
How Did Italians Communicate when There Was No Italian? Italo-Romance Intercomprehension in the Late Middle Ages
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05)Historians (including historians of oral and written culture, and to some extent also literary historians) have long been aware of the role of Latin as a potential barrier to intelligibility, but they have very rarely ... -
Universalising idealism: The cross-cultural case of Russian religious thought
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The article analyses the idealist dimension of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian religious thought as it appears in key works by Vladimir Solov’ev (1853–1900), Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944) and Nikolai ... -
Learning Arabic in Scandinavia: Motivation, metacognition, and autonomy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Rising levels of immigration, especially from the Middle East and North Africa, have led to significant socio-demographic changes and increasing levels of linguistic diversity in Scandinavian countries. In parallel with ... -
Language teacher multilingualism in Norway and Russia: Identity and beliefs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Multilingualism has witnessed growing interest as a subject of academic study and as a state to aspire to for many of the world's citizenry. In tandem with this growing interest, countries around the world have started to ... -
England, Whose England?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-04)A review essay of Adriana Neagu, Continental Perceptions of Englishness, ‘Foreignness’ and the Global Turn. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2017. -
Evaluating teacher multilingualism across contexts and multiple languages: validation and insights
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In response to the need for quantitative instruments that can provide insights into language teacher multilingualism on a large scale, this article discusses the development of the MULTITEACH questionnaire via a five-stage ... -
Literature in contemporary foreign language school textbooks in Russia: Content, approaches, and readability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-05)In light of the growing importance placed by states on the use of authentic materials in foreign language education programs, this study explored the literary content found in the 18 English, French, and German ministry-approved ... -
Gardien du frère – fils du gardien. Frères et étrangers dans Meursault, contre-enquête de Kamel Daoud
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Dès la publication de Meursault, contre-enquête (en 2013 en Algérie, en 2014 en France), la critique a noté le double rôle de l’oeuvre d’Albert Camus dans le roman de Kamel Daoud. À première vue, le roman est une réécriture ...
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