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Beyond the English Classroom: A Study of Upper Secondary School Students’ Extramural English in Norway
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Formålet med dette studiet har vore å undersøka norske elevar sin bruk av extramural English (EE) (engelsk utanfor klasserommet), til å identifisera ulikskapar mellom kjønn og for å sjå samanhengen mellom elevar sin EE og ... -
Dialogic Reading Spaces in Autofiction: Rachel Cusk’s Kudos
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article explores the conversational aspect of Cusk’s autofiction and discusses its relevance for describing the relationship between an autofictional text, its author and its reader. In Kudos, this conversational ... -
School students’ beliefs about the benefits of multilingualism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)School students' beliefs about the benefits of multilingualism -
Embodying the spirit of the time: traumatic history in Vladimir Sharov’s fiction
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article focuses on two novels by Vladimir Sharov, Staraia devochka (The Old Girl) and Voskreshenie Lazaria (The Resurrection of Lazarus), that address the Stalinist repressions of the 1930s. Through analysis of these ... -
The Sustainable Development Goals — Sensible Initiative or Just Nonsense? An Investigation of Norwegian Citizens’ Knowledge and Attitudes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract: We explore what associations Norwegian citizens have with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through an analysis of their knowledge of and attitudes towards these goals. To achieve this, we combine three ... -
¿Escribía Lope de Vega con falsilla? Aproximación a El mayordomo de la duquesa de Amalfi y El perro del hortelano desde el Análisis de Redes Sociales
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)La crítica ha advertido repetidamente la semejanza entre 'El mayordomo de la duquesa de Amalfi' (¿1604-1606?) y 'El perro del hortelano' (¿1613?) de Lope Vega. Su temática y ambientación son algunos de los puntos en común ... -
Verwirklichung einer vollkommenen Glücksmöglichkeit/A perfect bliss-potential realized: “Wunsch, Indianer zu werden” im Lichte des Dao Kafkas übersetzend gelesen/Transreading “Wish, to Become Indian” in light of Kafka’s Dao
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Walking an unexplored path, Huiwen Helen Zhang contextualizes Kafka's pithy and cryptic parable, “Wish, to Become Indian” in his transplantation of Daoist philosophy—an astonishing cross-cultural enigma that Zhang terms ... -
A Map with Open Borders, response by Elizabeth Barry and Margery Vibe Skagen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In the category “Review Response,” Age, Culture, Humanities features diverse, sometimes conflicting, views within age studies and assessments of the research carried out in the field. This article takes Elizabeth Barry’s ... -
Georgii Fedotov as a Theologian of Culture
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The article discusses the notion of culture as it appears and is conceptualized in the works of G.P. Fedotov. The analysis focuses on two articles by Fedotov published in Russian émigré journals, "The Holy Spirit in Nature ... -
Charting a new course for translator and interpreter training in Africa: Lessons from the COVID-19 experience in selected countries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Translator and interpreter (T&I) training, using virtual learning environments, was largely uninterrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the Global North. This might not have been the case in the Global South, ... -
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Language conflict, glottophagy and camouflage in the Italian cinematic city
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In this paper, I would like to present an analysis of the social environment of language contact in Italy exploring how historically the language policy in the era of fascism produced a complex idea of the Italian language ... -
Court Trials ... in Egypt
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Investigating the effectiveness of an online language teacher education programme informed by self-determination theory
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Despite the centrality of motivation for all learning, few studies have examined the effectiveness of online language teacher education (OLTE) programmes within a psychological framework. This explorative study seeks to ... -
The Quotative System of Nigerian English
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-03-22)This thesis explores the ways speakers of Nigerian English (NE) re-create their own speech and the speech of others in narrative discourse using different quotatives. Research on English quotatives largely concentrated on ... -
Climate change lifestyle narratives among Norwegian citizens: A linguistic analysis of survey discourse
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The present study proposes an analysis of climate change (CC) narratives in answers to an open-ended survey question, where we ask what a climate-friendly lifestyle may imply. The representative survey has been conducted ... -
Presupposed free choice and the theory of scalar implicatures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)A disjunctive sentence like Olivia took Logic or Algebra conveys that Olivia didn’t take both classes (EXCLUSIVITY) and that the speaker doesn’t know which of the two classes she took (IGNORANCE). The corresponding sentence ... -
Inscriptions and Ways of Owning Books among the Sisters of Syon Abbey
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article discusses the phenomenon of personal inscriptions in manuscripts and printed books associated with the sisters of Syon Abbey (founded 1415), the sole English Birgittine house. It argues that personal inscriptions ... -
Presuppositions, implicatures, and contextual equivalence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Maximize Presupposition! (MP), as originally proposed in Heim (Semantik: Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung, pp. 487–535, 1991) and developed in subsequent works, offers an account of the otherwise ... -
The Death and Resurrection of Oshun in Beyonc e’s Lemonade: Subverting the Institutionalized Borders of Western Christian Thought in American Popular Culture
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