• The Use of Literature to Discuss Racism within the English Subject in the Norwegian Lower Secondary School: A Mixed-method Study. 

  Messel, Daniel Marcelo (Master thesis, 2021-06-02)

  Denne studien tar for seg om, og i så fall hvordan, engelsklærere i ungdomskolen bruker skjønnlitteratur for å diskutere rasisme i engelskfaget. Det blir undersøkt hvordan lærerne definerer rasisme, deres refleksjoner rundt ...

• Gli insulti cinematografici. I film degli anni Sessanta 

  Gargiulo, Marco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  In questo articolo, concentrandomi sui film degli anni Sessanta, vorrei presentare la prima parte di una ricerca più ampia sugli insulti nel cinema italiano. Cominciando con La dolce vita (1960) e alcuni dei più famosi e ...

• Multiplicity and Modifiers 

  Romoli, Jacopo; Renans, Agata (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  A sentence with an adverbial modifier under negation like Mike didn’t wash the window with soap gives rise to an inference that Mike did wash the window. A sentence with a plural noun like Mike washed windows gives rise ...

• "Ci-a potemu fari!" Usi e atteggiamenti linguistici tra adolescenti a Catania 

  Moss, Bodil (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 

  Przulj, Tijana (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? 

  Devylder, Simon René Charles; Bracks, Christoph; Shimotori, Misuzu; Siahaan, Poppy (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 

  Shang, Guowen (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 

  Carlucci, Alessandro (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 

  Corrales-Øverlid, Ann Cathrin (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 

  Mjør, Kåre Johan (Slavica Bergensia;13, Chapter, 2020)

• Japanske låneord i norsk 

  Solvang, Harry (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 

  Skjelde, Kimberly; Coxhead, Averil (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) 

  Salkjelsvik, Kari Soriano (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» 

  Bryn, Brita Lotsberg (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) 

  Quesada-Pacheco, Miguel Angel; Amorós Negre, Carla (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 

  Carlucci, Alessandro (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 

  Mjør, Kåre Johan (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 

  Calafato, Raees (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 

  Calafato, Raees (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? 

  Sillars, Stuart (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.

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