Faculty of Humanities
Recent Submissions
-
Algorithmic narrativity: Literary experiments that drive technology
(Journal article, 2024)This paper extends Raymond Williams’ insights on technology and society by asserting that not only scientific, social, and economic conditions but also aesthetic factors are crucial for technological adoption. The concept ... -
Examen philosophicum fra allmenndannelse til ekspertdannelse
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Denne diskusjonen tar utgangspunkt i vårt arbeid i 2021 med å omorganisere examen philosophicum ved Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet ved Universitetet i Bergen. På bakgrunn av dette arbeidet, legger vi fram vår ... -
Machine vision situations: Tracing distributed agency
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article proposes a new method for tracing and examining agency in heterogeneous assemblages, focusing on the role of machine vision technologies in creative works. We introduce the concept of the “machine vision ... -
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 ... -
Headshakes in NGT: Relation between Phonetic Properties & Linguistic Functions
(Chapter, 2024)Non-manual markers (such as facial expressions and head movements) have been shown to fulfil a wide range of grammatical functions across sign languages (Pfau and Quer, 2010). One nonmanual marker that is very wide-spread ... -
Weird quantities: characterising monstrous landscapes of extraction in the Anthropocene
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Modern mining operates on enormous scales and quantities that go beyond everyday comprehension, which in turn has existential and metaphysical implications, and this article is an experiment in characterising ‘existentially ... -
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 ... -
Hjort er hjort? Relasjoner mellom menneske og hjort i senmesolitikum analysert gjennom bergkunsten i Vingen
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)The Late Mesolithic site Vingen located on the west coast of Norway, is the second largest rock art site in Norway of the Northern Tradition. A large amount of the more than 2200 motifs have been interpreted as red deer ... -
Maritime trade
(Journal article, 2023)The Arabian Peninsula is bordered by the Red Sea, the Arabian-Persian Gulf, and the Arabian Sea. Maritime contacts constituted important links with the outside world. Arabian ships ventured overseas, and visitors came to ... -
COVID-19, the mark of the beast, and the Last Days. A study on vaccine hesitancy in Norwegian Christian charismatic movements.
(Chapter, 2024)Vaccine hesitancy is not a new phenomenon in Norway. It has been connected to animal protection in the 1920s–1950s, and religion and medicine in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. After the launch of the internet and ... -
Urban Heritage, and the Theory of Fragmentation: The Development of Archaeology in the City of Turku, Finland
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Despite the shift from object- to landscape-based approaches in urban heritage management, the analysis of heritage as objects is still viable, as the current archaeological theories of material culture do not see objects ... -
Valuing the Length of Lives in Public Health and Beyond
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-08-26)Denne avhandlinga undersøker nokon normative problem som oppstår som følge av forskjellar i livslengder. Sjølv om personar i vår samtid lever lengre enn gong før i historia, er det framleis usikkert om ein gitt person ... -
Are Ontologies Trees or Lattices?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Ontologies, it is sometimes said, take the form of a hierarchy or tree: each class is subdivided into distinct subclasses with no cross classifications. But if the purpose of an ontology is to make possible useful inferences ... -
I Fiendens Vald: Noregs Handtering av Krigsfangar under Den Store Nordiske Krig 1709-1720
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)This master’s thesis investigates the treatment of Swedish prisoners of war during the great northern war 1709-1720 in Norway. Swedish POWs in Norway during the great northern war is almost an unexamined topic. Historiography ... -
"Sant nok fyller Kjersti 70 år, men ...": The structure of [A NOK] disjuncts
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Norwegian has a productive class of sentence adverbials, disjuncts of the form adjective + nok ‒ [A nok] for short. Examples include sant nok ‘true (enough)’, paradoksalt nok ‘paradoxically (enough)’, and tåpelig nok ... -
Grammatiske fingeravtrykk. Normklynger og forfatterattribusjon
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Normklynger er grupper av tekster som viser felles valg blant valgfrie alternativer innenfor en skriftspråksnorm og danner ‘klynger’ innenfor rommet av valgmuligheter fordi andre valgkombinasjoner er sjeldnere. Basert på ...
RSS 2.0