Department of Foreign Languages
Recent Submissions
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Russia – the “True Europe” or a “Unique Civilization”?: Towards a Genealogy of two Post-Soviet Ideas
(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
(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 ... -
Sharing interview questions in advance: Methodological considerations in applied linguistics research
(Journal article, 2024)Interviews serve as a prominent methodological tool in applied linguistics and beyond, allowing researchers to explore participants’ experiences, ideologies and beliefs. Yet, the extent to which interview questions are ... -
Eye Blink Detection in Sign Language Data Using CNNs and Rule-Based Methods
(Chapter, 2024)Eye blinks are used in a variety of sign languages as prosodic boundary markers. However, no cross-linguistic quantitative research on eye blinks exists. In order to facilitate such research in future, we develop and test ... -
La théorie décliniste de Michel Houellebecq : l’exemple du traitement des personnes âgées dans Anéantir.
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"Salvaged out of the Sea of the Incomputable": Gnostic Metaphysics in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris
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Identifying opposition against increased carbon tax and reduced red meat consumption
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Identifying the individual characteristics that predict climate policy support can inform strategies to increase support for climate policies. This study examines how individual characteristics predict support for two ... -
Controverses du changement climatique : la représentation des paroles d’autrui dans les pages de discussion sur Wikipédia francophone et norvégien
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Résumé Le présent article se propose d’explorer l’encyclopédie collaborative Wikipédia au prisme de deux aspects ayant particulièrement intéressé Kjersti Fløttum au fil de ses travaux : (i) la crise climatique, qui sera ... -
Polar question intonation in Russian speech from Moscow and Perm
(Chapter, 2023)In Central Standard Russian, polar (yes/no) questions are typically pronounced with a high rise on the nuclear syllable, followed by a fall to low level, starting immediately or shortly after the nuclear syllable. Recent ... -
Young L1 Norwegian-L2 English Students' Engagement with Climate and Environmental Communication
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)Vår tids største utfordringar er klima- og miljørelaterte, og dei yngre i samfunnet er bekymra for framtida. I tillegg blir klima- og miljøutfordringane på verdsbasis ofte diskutert på engelsk. Dette betyr at personar som ... -
L’utilisation des contes écrits africains comme approche didactique dans l’enseignement du FLE au Cameroun : Cas de la production écrite et de l’expression orale des apprenants
(Master thesis, 2024-05-29)With the introduction of national languages into the educational system in Cameroon by the Ministry of Secondary Education, we noticed increasing interest in the use of tales as a teaching corpus although this is still ... -
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 ...