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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 ... -
Policies, textbooks, and curriculum constraints to integrating literature into language education: EFL teacher perspectives from Russia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Employing a qualitative design, this exploratory study examined the challenges and constraints encountered by foreign language teachers in Russia when using literature in their lessons in primary, secondary and tertiary ... -
Polyphonie et identité du roman africain dit de la rupture. Discours paternaliste et hétérogénéité constitutive de quatre romans de Bolya Baenga, Calixthe Beyala et Ahmadou Kourouma
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-06-10)This dissertation attempts a discourse analysis of four African post-colonial novels pertaining to what has been named “roman de la rupture”, which refers to novels that have evolved from the sixties till date and depict ... -
Polyphonie et représentations dans la poésie orale africaine. Images et voix d’outre-mer chez F. Bebey et D. Elwood
(Master thesis, 2006-04-01)This study is about the white presence in francophone oral poetry from Africa south of the Sahara. The thesis uses polyphony and enunciation theories to attempt a study of the pictures and voices of the North in the works ... -
Popular science - common ground. A literary critique of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene
(Master thesis, 2012-05-15)This thesis aims to perform a literary reading of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene from a perspective situated outside of the 'battle of the two cultures'. Chapter 1 takes Foucault's article What is an author?" as its ... -
The portrayal of Working-Class speech in British film: a study of accent in British films from the 1960s and the 2000s
(Master thesis, 2009-11-20)The aim of this thesis has been to investigate the portrayal of working-class accents in British films over a period of 40 years. The hypothesis expects that there will be fewer instances of non-standard accent variants ... -
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 ... -
Pragmatic competences in oral textbook tasks
(Master thesis, 2017-06-08)Pragmatic competences can be perceived as awareness of how meaning is context dependent and how to use language accordingly. These competences are a central part of communicative competence, enabling students to engage in ... -
The Presence of the Past in Contemporary Russian Prose Fiction:A Comparative Reading of Guzel’ Iakhina and Sergei Lebedev
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article studies the poetics of historical reimagination in works by Guzel’ Iakhina and Sergei Lebedev, two contemporary Russian prose writers. The main tendencies in Russian official history politics and memory culture ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Préstamos en la prensa colombiana: 1913 y 2013
(Master thesis, 2015-07-13)Esta tesina es un estudio sobre préstamo en el periódico colombiano El Tiempo en los años 1913 y 2013. Los objetivos principales de este trabajo fueron encontrar si existe un cambio en el predominio de préstamos de un ... -
Promoting 21st century skills through classroom encounters with English language literature in Norway: Theoretical and practical considerations
(Chapter, 2022)The present chapter explores the affordances of literature as an educational medium in the School of the Future, more specifically in relation to the teaching and learning of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Norway. ... -
Promoting Intercultural Competence in a Multicultural Classroom
(Master thesis, 2011-05-16)This thesis is a study of a multicultural classroom and what the foci of English as a foreign language are. Furthermore, it focuses on how intercultural competence could be promoted. -
Provocative greenness and staged rebellion: Youth’s rhetorical performances of environmental citizenship
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The paper examines the rhetorical use and function of a provocative “rebel” persona in argumentative texts, collected from the youth column in Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten and the national speech contest for high school ... -
Queer Touch Between Holy Women: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Birgitta of Sweden, and the Visitation
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)This essay takes a new approach to the well-known meeting between two late-medieval English visionary women, Margery Kempe and the anchoress Julian of Norwich, as described in The Book of Margery Kempe. In this analysis ... -
Quelle est la place de la variation sociolinguistique dans la classe de FLE en Norvège? Une étude qualitative de la prise en compte de la variation diamésique
(Master thesis, 2018-09-28)Denne masteroppgaven stiller spørsmålet ” Hva er sosiolingvistisk variasjon sin plass i franskklasserommet i Norge?”. Med sosiolingvistisk variasjon menes språklige variasjoner som endrer seg etter ulike forhold som ... -
Quelques thèmes fondamentaux de "La vie mode d'emploi" de Georges Perec
(Master thesis, 2011-11-18)Dette arbeidet tar for seg romanen La vie mode d'emploi av Georges Perec (på norsk Livet bruksanvisning) . Oppgaven har en tematisk tilnærming til Perecs tekst, og konsentrerer seg særlig om to sentrale temaer som går igjen ... -
The Quest for Identity Through Bodily Pain. Female Abjection in the literary work of Igiaba Scego
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article addresses how (cultural) identity in Igiaba Scego’s literary works is achieved through a struggle of bodily pain. Narrating from a female point of view, Scego explores in depth the female migrant condition ... -
Questions of Culture and Context in English Language Textbooks A Study of Textbooks for the Teaching of English in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-10-19)