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The Fundamentals of Textbook English Vocabulary selection in L2 English textbooks for 1st and 2nd grade learners
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)I denne korpus-baserte innholdsanalysen har målet vært å undersøke engelske lærebøker for 1. og 2. trinn på barneskolen skrevet for LK20, og da særlig ordvalget, for å se på i hvilken grad læreplanmål og forskning styrer ... -
Women Readers at Syon Abbey : Networks of Books and Community, 1415–1539
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-06-07)Denne avhandlingen, med tittelen «Women Readers at Syon Abbey: Networks of Books and Community, 1415–1539», undersøker forholdet mellom de middelalderske Birgittasøstrene fra Syon Abbey (et. 1415) samt bøkene deres ved å ... -
Rôles des citoyens dans la lutte climatique : une étude linguistique des opinions des Français sur les possibilités et les obstacles concernant l’atténuation du changement climatique
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Résumé : Les défis que pose le changement climatique se présentent de plus en plus clairement, et les citoyens dans différentes parties du monde en sont touchés de différentes manières. La majorité des efforts pour atténuer ... -
Practicing and Managing Foreign Toponyms in China: Cultural Politics and Ideologies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study examines the vogue of adopting foreign-origin place names in Chinese cities and the Chinese governments’ endeavors to regulate the toponymic landscape. The place naming practices, management, and public attitudes ... -
How politicians and the population attribute responsibility for climate change mitigation: no indication of a ‘governance trap’ in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Previous research claims that ‘the most significant risk’ to achieving climate change mitigation goals is the ‘governance trap’, whereby governments and the public attribute responsibility for action to one another. While ... -
Exploring L2 English Proficiency and Translation of Academic English Vocabulary
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Knowledge of academic English vocabulary is essential for upper secondary L2 English learners preparing for university studies, yet previous research suggests students in Scandinavian settings may need support to acquire ... -
The Humanities of Contagion: How Literary and Visual Representations of the "Spanish" Flu Pandemic Complement, Complicate and Calibrate COVID-19 Narratives
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)My article examines how literary and visual representations of the “Spanish” Flu contagion foreshadow and generate critical discourses about pandemics. D.H. Lawrence’s novella The Fox characterises paranoia about biological ... -
Seeking Consensus on Confusing and Contentious Issues: Young Norwegians’ Experiences of Environmental Debates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this paper, I examine how young people in Norway, an affluent nation in the global north with long traditions of acknowledging the young as citizens, articulate and negotiate agency and norms for practicing environmental ... -
Samspillet mellom juridiske aktører og tolker i norske rettssaler
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Denne artikkelen tar for seg tolkede rettssaker og ser med kritisk blikk på interaksjonen mellom de juridiske aktørene og tolkene i rettssalen. Med utgangspunkt i transkriberte videoopptak fra en norsk tingrett viser ... -
'The seas was like mountains': Intra-writer variation and social mobility in Irish emigrant letters
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This paper presents a case study based on the writing of James Horner, one of the many Irish emigrants who crossed the Atlantic between the late 1700s and early 1800s. Communication between Horner and his family back in ... -
The Worth of Nature: Valuations of Glaciers in Alaskan and Norwegian Media Discourse
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article presents a comparative case study of public valuation of glaciers in Alaska and Norway. The first case examines Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier, which has been central in public debate over the US Forest Service’s ... -
Les emprunts des termes Igbo dans la traduction française de Half of a yellow sun de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)This work deals with borrowing Igbo elements in the translated version of the book, Half of a Yellow Sun, written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and translated by Mona de Pracontal. The novel tells a story about the Nigerian ... -
Envuelto mexicano con sabor al siglo XIX. Un análisis de El cocinero mexicano (1831) y El nuevo cocinero mexicano (1845)
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)“Den mexicanske kokken” (El cocinero mexicano) fra 1831 og “Den nye mexicanske kokken” (El nuevo cocinero mexicano) fra 1831 og «El Nuevo Cocinero Mexicano» («Den nye meksikanske kokken») fra 1845 er to anonyme publikasjoner ... -
Memorias de Paulina (1874) El juego de la provocación
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)Memorias de Paulina (1874) a short novel written anonymously by José Negrete in Mexico, is a text that questions certain social consensuses and established institutions of the time. The main character, Paulina, was a dancer ... -
Colombianos en Bergen: un estudio de integración, percepciones y actitudes lingüísticas
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)Colombians in Bergen: A Study of Integration, Perceptions, and Linguistic Attitudes This research aims to identify the linguistic perceptions and attitudes of Colombian residents in Bergen toward their Spanish and the ... -
Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study examines the pragmatic functions of fuck among British English teenagers in casual conversation in two youth language corpora from the 1990s and 2010s. It applies a corpus-pragmatics approach to explore how the ... -
Using documentary films in the EFL classroom to promote the development of intercultural competence
(Master thesis, 2017)Hovudmålet med denne oppgåva er å undersøke korleis dokumentarfilm kan bli brukt i klasserommet for å fremje utviklinga av interkulturell kompetansei det obligatoriske faget engelsk på Vg1. Interkulturell kompetanse er ... -
Elever i streik – skoleskulkere eller systemkritiske medborgere?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Sentralt i den offentlige debatten om de norske klimastreikene var spørsmålet om elevene skulle få fraværsmerknad for å delta eller om deres aktivisme skulle beskyttes av streikeretten. I artikkelen undersøker jeg hvordan ... -
The concept of creativity in Georges Florovsky’s thought
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article discusses the meanings of “creativity”—tvorchestvo—as we encounter it in Georges Florovsky’s thought, first and foremost in his magnum opus Ways of Russian Theology (1937). Tvorchestvo had by this time become ... -
«Jeg er redd for fremtiden»: Unge, bekymrede stemmer i klimadebatten
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Mange unge er bekymret for klimaendringene. Her undersøker jeg innholdet i denne bekymringen, som uttrykt i debattartikler skrevet av ungdom til Aftenposten mellom 2016-2021. Min analytiske tilgang til disse tekstene er ...