Department of Foreign Languages
Recent Submissions
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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 ... -
Le Vieillir chez Proust : Métaphores du vieillissement dans le « Bal de têtes »
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-19)In the “Bal de têtes” – the final scene of Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu – ageing becomes the primary subject of the narrator’s reflections. Confronted with the aged faces and bodies of friends and acquaintances ... -
Ekphrasis et figura dans le texte michonien
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Pierre Michon’s postmodern writing oscillates between the sacred and the simulacrum, the sensible and the intelligible. It prompts the reader’s immersion into the text in order to make literature a force that acts. The ... -
Historieundervisning i Putins Russland: Skoleverkets lærebøker før og etter ideen om "enhetlig læreverk i historie"
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Word order in clauses of purpose and result in Old English translated and non-translated prose
(Master thesis, 2020-12-09)Mange av de overlevende tekstene vi har fra den gammelengelske perioden er tekster som er oversatt fra, eller inspirert av, latinske tekster. Spesielt tekster fra den tidligste gammelengelske perioden (800-950 evt) er ... -
Caged verses: some new notes on the politics of The Pisan Cantos
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The Pisan Cantos is the most notorious section of Pound’s masterpiece The Cantos, which was named after the concentration camp of Coltano, near Pisa, where Pound was imprisoned by the US army after the fall of Italian ... -
Associations évoquées par le changement climatique chezdes citoyens français et norvégiens
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-11-07)Communication related to climate change as well as to its consequences constitutes a major challenge; all the more so since climate is a nonobservable phenomenon, in stark contrast to the weather. In this perspective, ... -
Contested utopias: Language ideologies in Valerii Votrin's Logoped
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Estudio dialectológico perceptual de las Antillas hispánicas
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-10)In this paper I analyzed the Spanish - speaking Caribbean´s dialectal perceptions (Cubans, Puerto Ricans and Dominicans), in order to know the mental delimitation of the linguistic area to which their varieties are ... -
El voseo panameño: Situación actual y actitudes ante su uso
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)El presente estudio intenta rastrear, a manera de trabajo empírico piloto, la situación en que se encuentra el tratamiento de vos en algunas regiones de Panamá, en específico en la mitad occidental del territorio, a la vez ... -
Einstellungen und Erfahrungen von Lehramtsstudierenden zur Mehrsprachigkeitsorientierung im Deutschunterricht
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Diese Studie analysiert die Erfahrungen und Einstellungen von drei norwegischen Lehramtsstudierenden im Fach Deutsch, die sich im universitären Unterricht zum ersten Mal mit dem Thema Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik beschäftigten ... -
The Quest for Identity Through Bodily Pain. Female Abjection in the literary work of Igiaba Scego
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article addresses how (cultural) identity in Igiaba Scego’s literary works is achieved through a struggle of bodily pain. Narrating from a female point of view, Scego explores in depth the female migrant condition ...
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