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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 ... -
Étude linguistique du discours de l'ONG Greenpeace France
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)This thesis undertakes a qualitative linguistic analysis of fifty texts and reports published on the website of Greenpeace France. Greenpeace is one of the largest non-governmental organizations protecting the environment ... -
Étude sémantique du pronom ON dans une perspective textuelle et contextuelle
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Face Up and Sing': Nonconformity, Bisexual Consciousness and Transversity in the Work of Ani DiFranco
(Master thesis, 2008-11-11)The thesis focuses on how and where Ani DiFranco can be situated in the context of American nonconformity, how third wave feminism and ideas around sexuality has shaped her subjective conceptual frame, and how her work can ... -
The Familiar and the Fantastic A Study of Contemporary High Fantasy in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen
(Master thesis, 2009-05-15)This thesis deals with fantasy as a literary genre, as well as its subgenre "high fantasy," and contemporary genre theorizing. It examines how the cycles A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin and The Malazan Book ... -
Family language policy in retrospect: Narratives of success and failure in an Indian–Iranian transnational family
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this study, we investigate family language policy in a transnational family through a collaborative autoethnography. Following the theoretical underpinnings of family language policy (Spolsky in J Multiling Multicult ... -
Famous Hyperboreans
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)The individual Hyperboreans appearing in ancient literature are presented with a review of the Greek and Latin sources and collections of references. Most of the mythological characters are briefly discussed, but the ... -
The Fear of Feminization in a Literal No Man's Land: Negotiations of Masculine Identities in Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" and Wyndham Lewis's "The Revenge for Love"
(Master thesis, 2012-05-14)Notions of a crisis of masculinity are recurrent in the works of Wyndham Lewis and Ernest Hemingway. This thesis studies the concept of feminization by comparing Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" (1927) and Lewis's "The ... -
Fehler web-basierter maschineller Übersetzungsprogramme in deutschen Übersetzungen norwegischer Tourismustexte
(Master thesis, 2017-06-20)Samandrag I denne oppgåva har eg sett på kva typar språklege feil som dukkar opp ved bruk av dei internettbaserte omsetjingsverktøya Google Translate (GT), Bing Translator (BIT) og Babylon Translator (BAT). I undersøkinga ... -
Film and the intercultural multimodal reader: Expanding intercultural literary literacy as a theoretical and pedagogical concept
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article addresses key theoretical and practical concerns related to the intercultural encounter with multimodal literature. Previous efforts to incorporate an intercultural dimension into conceptualisations of literary ... -
Finding its place: Reading the Squatter and the Don through genres
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's novel The Squatter and the Don (1885) is a historical romance novel that is set in California at the end of the 19th century. It describes the struggle over land between Californio landowners ... -
Fingerprints: towards a multisensory approach to meaning in digital media
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper argues for a multisensory approach to meaning-making in digital environments guided primarily by the sense of touch. Drawing on insights from multimodality, anthropology of the senses, cognitive science and media ... -
Fonética del español de Guatemala Análisis geolingüístico pluridimensional
(Master thesis, 2006)El presente análisis geolingüístico pluridimensional de la fonética de Guatemala engloba los siguientes apartados: El primer capitulo explica la razón por la cual se ha elegido hacer un estudio de esta índole, así como los ... -
Fonética del español en Belice y del español de Panamá: Análisis lingüístico pluridimensional y comparativo
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-10-02)Following a dialectological approach, this project presents two multidimensional phonetic linguistic atlases; one for Spanish of Panama and one for Spanish in Belize. These atlases illustrate the geographic distribution ... -
Food as a social weapon: Peruvian immigrant entrepreneurs claiming home, belonging, and distinction in Southern California
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Peruvian immigrants in Southern California encounter a complex context of reception in which xenophobic portrayals of Latinxs exist alongside positive discourses on immigration. Simultaneously, the Peruvian gastronomic ... -
Formative assessment in EFL writing: A case study of pupils´ perceptions of their feedback practice and attitudes to receiving and using feedback
(Master thesis, 2017-06-08)Læreres tilbakemeldingspraksis på elevtekster er alltid aktuelt, og i løpet av det siste tiår har den norsk skolen hatt et særlig fokus på formativ vurdering igjennom den statlige satsingen Vurdering for Læring ... -
Fra Tiqqun til Tarnac. Fransk radikalisme på 2000-tallet
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Framing the Frame: Shakespeare and the Cadre
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)This article provides a conceptual introduction to the notion of Framing and functions as an introduction. n Framing the Sign, Jonathan Culler privileges the term frame over context (ix). Culler states that framing a work ... -
Freebooters, yachts, and pickle-herrings: Dutch nautical, maritime, and naval loanwords in English
(Master thesis, 2011-05-15)This thesis examines Dutch nautical, maritime, and naval loanwords in English. It looks at when and how they were adopted, if and when they fell out of use, and why some of them are still found in English today. -
Freedom or Fidelity? Translation Challenges in Bente Bratlund’s Novel Porselenshunden.
(Master thesis, 2007)In this thesis, I shall look at the challenge of literary translation on the basis of discussions concerning possible translations of selected excerpts from Bente Bratlund's contemporary Norwegian novel Porselenshunden, ...