• Hvordan forstå endringer i før-moderne sharia? Et nærmere blikk på den rettsvitenskapelige tradisjonen i perioden 1200–1800 

  Hovden, Eirik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Sharia blir ofte framstilt som noe strengt og uforanderlig. Både konservative muslimer og såkalte islam-kritikere presenterer gjerne sharia som statisk og avledet av Koranen og sunnaen en gang for alle. At endring skjer ...

• Investigating level descriptors and their impact on validity 

  Grocott, Craig; Moe, Eli; Verhelst, Norman (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  This article presents a validation study which investigates the relationship between mastery level descriptors and item difficulty in the National Tests of English (NTE) in Norway. The aim is to establish the extent to ...

• The Role of Parental Language Profile and Home Linguistic Environment in Shaping Teenagers' Multilingual Identity 

  Hosseini, Mona; Haukås, Åsta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  In the multilingual context of Norway, language policy at the macro level supports the development of multilingualism. At the meso level, parental language beliefs and ideologies and language practices in interactions among ...

• Beyond Macroethics: Developing an Ethical Framework for Interview Data Collection and Analysis to Acknowledge Participant Rights 

  Hosseini, Mona; Haukås, Åsta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)

  Participant rights and voices are protected through institutional ethical considerations in the social sciences and applied linguistics. Yet, several ethical concerns remain. In addition to adhering to institutional ...

• 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 

  Grocott, Craig (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 

  Shang, Guowen (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 

  Lindstedt, Samira Rebecca Maria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

• Understanding and Framing Change in Islamic Law: Potentials and Possible Pitfalls of the Concepts of Canonization and Codification 

  Hovden, Eirik (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 

  Koppen, Randi Synnøve (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 

  Haukås, Åsta; Drange, Eli-Marie D. (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 

  Hopson, Nathan Edwin (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 

  Haukås, Åsta (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 ...

• Overgange i flersprogethedsdidaktikken. Transitions in plurilingual education. Transitions dans l’éducation plurilingue 

  Daryai-Hansen, Petra; Deschoux, Carole-Anne; Haukås, Åsta; Källkvist, Marie; Lőrincz, Ildikó; Lory, Marie-Paule; Maynard, Catherine; Prilutskaya, Marina Yurievna; Thamin, Nathalie (Journal article, 2024)

• The construction of Male Identity in Shakespeare: Ambition and the Corruption of Masculinity in Macbeth and Richard Ⅲ. 

  Helleberg, Kiril Vihrjakov (Master thesis, 2024-11-20)

• Cuentos (1880) de Eduarda Mansilla de García. La creación del lector infantil en Argentina. 

  Mirjanic, Aleksandra (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 ...

• Questioni di genere in Italia - costruzione e ricostruzione delle identità attraverso la lingua 

  Castano, Giovanna (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 ...

• "Educación, Estado y religión en el Diario de los Niños (1839-1840)" 

  Soriano Salkjelsvik, Kari (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 

  Skjelde, Kimberly Marie (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 

  Mjør, Kåre Johan (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 

  Kimmelman, Vadim; Price, Ari; Safar, Josefina; De Vos, Connie; Bulla, Jan (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 ...

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