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A Norwegian Soul in a Chinese Body? Ethnic Identity and Chinese Adoptees in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The ethnic identity of international adoptees has been a transdisciplinary field of inquiry over the past decades. Taking China-born adopted Norwegian citizens as research subjects, this study uses a mixed-method approach ... -
Norwegian upper secondary EFL teachers’ attitudes, knowledge and beliefs about learner autonomy
(Master thesis, 2018-05-10)Denne masteroppgaven er skrevet innenfor engelsk didaktikk og har hatt som hensikt å se nærmere på norske læreres kunnskap, holdning og tanker om elevautonomi. Studien har blitt gjennomført blant lærere som underviser i ... -
Nostalgia, solitude and belonging in Teju Cole's Open City
(Master thesis, 2017-05-31)This master thesis concerns the main character in Teju Cole’s Open City, first published in the United States of America in 2011. The character is called Julius and is also the first person narrator in the novel. This means ... -
Of Monsters and Men: Masculinity and the Gothic in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory
(Master thesis, 2017-06-09)Denne oppgaven utforsker hvordan maskulinitet blir fremstilt og forstått i Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (1818) og Iain Banks The Wasp Factory (1984). Jeg knytter disse to bøkene sammen gjennom hvordan de tar opp mange av de ... -
Old dogs teaching new tricks? How upper secondary English teachers in Hordaland define digital competence and what kind of digital competence is promoted in their teaching.
(Master thesis, 2016-06-02)Som en konsekvens av digitaliseringen av samfunnet, er nå digitale ferdigheter en av fem grunnleggende ferdigheter i alle fag i grunnskolen og i videregående skole. Denne masteravhandlingen søker å avdekke hvordan lærerne ... -
Olympe de Gouges : Femme rebelle. Une étude linguistique et discursive de La Déclaration des Droits de la femme et de la citoyenne (1791)
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)Ce mémoire se centre sur Olympe de Gouges, personnalité historique et féministe avant l'heure, connue pour avoir écrit La Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne déjà en 1791. A travers une analyse à la fois ... -
«Om vannveier, vyer og jernbanemyter»
(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. -
Omission of the primary verbs BE and HAVE in London teenage speech - a sociolinguistic study
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On the rhetorical function of existential THERE
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"One accent to rule them all". A sociolinguistic study of accent use and stereotyping in American fantasy films
(Master thesis, 2014-05-14)This thesis investigates accent use in a selection of American fantasy films. Specific characters traits have been correlated with various accents to detect systematic patterns and underlying language attitudes. -
"One foot in this world and one foot in that": Woman Hollering Creek and the bildungscomposite
(Master thesis, 2008-12-15)In this thesis I discuss the genre of Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek. I argue that the book is what I here call a bildungscomposite," that is, a hybrid genre with elements from both the Bildungsroman and the short ... -
One Loveheart at a Time: The Language of Emoji and the Building of Affective Community in the Digital Medieval Studies Environment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The Old Books, New Science (OBNS) Lab began using Slack in May 2016 to facilitate the work of a diverse research group at the University of Toronto. Yet the OBNS Slack does not simply facilitate scholarly communication: ... -
"One of these misty halos". Joseph Conrad and the Subversion of the Adventure Story
(Master thesis, 2014-11-20)This thesis explores how the destabilization and subversion of the traditional adventure story genre in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) and Lord Jim (1900) provide a critique of imperialism from within. Through ... -
Opinions about Perceived Linguistic Intelligibility in Late-Medieval Italy
(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, ... -
Order out of chaos - Highlighting the chaos inherent in the order. How Hunter S. Thompson’s early texts give value to fiction by challenging the authority of politically constructed truths
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)This master's thesis concerns Hunter S. Thompson and his position in the canon of American fiction writers. Through a literary reading of a number of Thompson's early articles from the collection The Great Shark Hunt, ... -
The Past is Never Lost
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A Peaceful resolution is a victory for the resistance. The relationship between Hizbullah rhetoric and possible peaceful resolutions in Lebanon
(Master thesis, 2010-11-22)This study attempts to examine selected Hizbullah rhetoric concerning future peacebuilding and state-building within Lebanon. Hizbullah's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, following the end of the Israeli occupation in 2000, ... -
Pedagogical Programs for a Period of Crisis: El museo mexicano (1843-1845)
(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 ... -
Peer-Led Group dialogues between majority and language minority students in the Norwegian upper secondary EFL classroom. A Case study.
(Master thesis, 2018-06-26)This master’s thesis explores the didactic benefits and challenges of using peer-led mixed group dialogues between majority and language minority students in the upper secondary Norwegian EFL classroom. The study implements ... -
People’s Conceptions and Valuations of Nature in the Context of Climate Change
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper investigates how people conceive and evaluate nature through language, in a climate change context. With material consisting of 1,200 answers to open-ended questions in nationally representative surveys in Norway, ...