Department of Foreign Languages: Recent submissions
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Educación Sexual en Chile y Noruega: Un Análisis Comparativo de los Currículos Oficiales con Énfasis en Género y Diversidad Sexual al 2024
(Master thesis, 2025-05-15)This research comparatively analyses the official sex education curricula in Chile and Norway in 2024, focusing on how both countries address gender and sexual diversity perspectives in their educational policies. In a ... -
Ecos del exilio - Valores y memorias que perduran: el retorno de los chilenos desde Noruega
(Master thesis, 2025-05-15)This study examines the long-term effect of exile on Chileans who fled Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990) and lived as forced migrants in Norway before returning to Chile. It questions how a prolonged exile in Norway ... -
The discourse markers 'like' in English and 'liksom' in Norwegian teenage language: a corpus-based, cross-linguistic study
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Word prosodic structure and vowel reduction in Moscow and Perm Russian
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2025)Central Standard Russian is well-known for its vowel reduction in two degrees: the immediately pretonic vowel is much less reduced than vowels in other unstressed positions, both in quality and in quantity, at least when ... -
En mi vida había escuchado este idioma: usos y preferencias lingüísticas de la comunidad cubana en Noruega
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Esta investigación es un estudio exploratorio parte del proyecto HISPANOR “La comunidad hispanohablante en Noruega: pautas de integración sociolingüística”. Para el presente artículo, en el año 2021, se aplicaron cuestionarios ... -
Richard Wilhelm and Alfred Döblin Transread the Chinese Tradition
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article compares the transreading of Chinese texts in German by Sinologist Richard Wilhelm and novelist Alfred Döblin. Wilhelm, a spiritual intermediary between China and Europe, worked with eminent Chinese scholars ... -
Mittelamerikanisches Spanisch in den Fernsehnachrichten. Auf der Suche nach einem regionalen Standard?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article examines the different varieties of Spanish spoken across Central America, excluding Belize, and compares them with the Spanish used by television announcers. The goal is to determine whether these broadcasters ... -
The Transmission of Canonized Islamic Legal Knowledge: Practices, Genres, and Institutions
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Writing Life, Writing Time, Writing the Mother: The Aging Daughter-Mother Relationship in Works of Annie Ernaux
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article focuses on Ernaux’s later life memories of a twentieth century daughter-mother relationship, rendered in the light of this era’s historical transformations and its tensions between individual freedom and ... -
Hvordan forstå endringer i før-moderne sharia? Et nærmere blikk på den rettsvitenskapelige tradisjonen i perioden 1200–1800
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Sharia blir ofte framstilt som noe strengt og uforanderlig. Både konservative muslimer og såkalte islam-kritikere presenterer gjerne sharia som statisk og avledet av Koranen og sunnaen en gang for alle. At endring skjer ... -
The Role of Parental Language Profile and Home Linguistic Environment in Shaping Teenagers' Multilingual Identity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In the multilingual context of Norway, language policy at the macro level supports the development of multilingualism. At the meso level, parental language beliefs and ideologies and language practices in interactions among ... -
Investigating level descriptors and their impact on validity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article presents a validation study which investigates the relationship between mastery level descriptors and item difficulty in the National Tests of English (NTE) in Norway. The aim is to establish the extent to ... -
Beyond Macroethics: Developing an Ethical Framework for Interview Data Collection and Analysis to Acknowledge Participant Rights
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)Participant rights and voices are protected through institutional ethical considerations in the social sciences and applied linguistics. Yet, several ethical concerns remain. In addition to adhering to institutional ... -
Do the National Tests of English in Norway test what we think they do? A think-aloud study of the eighth-grade tests from a validity perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article applies Messick’s (1995, 1996) presentation of the substantive aspect of validity (referred to as substantive validity) to the National Tests of English (NTE), taken by eighth-grade pupils in Norway. According ... -
Linguistic landscaping from above in China: scale-making and language ideologies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The sociolinguistics of mobility is one of Jan Blommaert’s significant theoretical legacies vis-à-vis language interactions in the age of globalization. This paper investigates the mobilization of English as a semiotic ... -
The Unidentifed Birgittine Borrowing in the Meditaciones Domini Nostri
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Understanding and Framing Change in Islamic Law: Potentials and Possible Pitfalls of the Concepts of Canonization and Codification
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Conservative and populist notions of Islamic law, or Sharīʿa, emphasize its immutability. While the textual nature of traditional Islamic jurisprudence supports this conception, academic research in recent decades demonstrates ... -
Participatory Democracy and the British Utopian Tradition: Leonard Woolf’s Co-operative Commonwealth in Historical Perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article examines an understudied chapter in the history of British socialist thought: the consumer-based socialism theorized by the Fabian and Labour Party advisor Leonard Woolf between 1913 and 1920. Exemplifying ... -
Teachers’ beliefs and experiences regarding collaboration across language subjects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In schools worldwide, there are increasing expectations for teacher collaboration across subjects. However, despite the potential benefits for students and teachers of viewing language subjects as interrelated, limited ... -
Whaling: Good for the World, the Nation, and You
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article explores the evolving rhetoric of commercial whaling advocates in Japan and Norway, who frame whaling as essential for global, national, and personal health. I show that proponents leverage sustainability ...