Faculty of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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Towards a Literary Poetics of Use : Romantic, Aesthetic, Modernist
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-09-09)Avhandlingen gir en ny tilnærming til aktuelle debatter i akademia om litteraturens nytte. I stedet for å ta utgangpunkt i en bestemt forestilling av hva det nyttige innebærer, for så å vurdere litteraturens legitime ... -
Multiple phases of human occupation in Southeast Arabia between 210,000 and 120,000 years ago
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Changing climatic conditions are thought to be a major control of human presence in Arabia during the Paleolithic. Whilst the Pleistocene archaeological record shows that periods of increased monsoon rainfall attracted ... -
«Jeg snakker ikke med kollegaer, så norsktimer på praksisplassen er bra. Jeg liker at jeg får snakke og jeg kan spørre om hva jeg trenger» En bruksbasert studie av praksisundervisning som del av arbeidsrettet norskopplæring
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)Målet med denne studien har vært å undersøke hvordan praksisundervisning som en del av en arbeidsrettet språkopplæringsmodell foregår og oppleves av lærere og elever som jobber og deltar i et slikt opplæringsløp. Videre ... -
The effect of formation processes on the frequency of palaeolithic cave sites in semiarid zones: Insights from Kazakhstan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Central Asian caves with Palaeolithic deposits are few, but they provide a rich record of human fossils and cultural assemblages that has been used to model Late Pleistocene hominin dispersals. However, previous research ... -
Aker og den norske samarbeidstradisjonen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Fra 1950-årene utviklet Aker seg til å bli et stort konsern og en motor i norsk verkstedindustri. I Aker, på bedrifts- og konsern-nivå, vokste det fram et tett samarbeid mellom ledelse og fagforeninger, sentrert rundt ... -
Václav Marek’s approach to the indigenous Sami religion
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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, ... -
Staging Trauma: Trauma and Masculinity in the War Fiction of Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien
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Haldningar til dialekter blant ungdom i Herøy: Ei haldningsgransking på Søre Sunnmøre
(Master thesis, 2022-05-25)Denne masteravhandlinga er ein studie av språkhaldningar blant ungdom i Herøy på Søre Sunnmøre. Delar av studien er inspirert av tidlegare haldningsgranskingar frå prosjektet Dialektendringsprosessar, der målet er å undersøke ... -
Wordsworth's Causal Poetics of Thought
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Africa Italiana: dalla narrazione coloniale alla postcolonialità.
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)The purpose of the present study is to investigate the Italian colonial narrative outlining its main features and tracing those features in different aspects of today’s Italian culture and society. After examining the ... -
Har flere folk vært i Paris enn jeg har? Tolkninger av komparative illusjoner på norsk
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)En komparativ illusjon er en type setning vi tilsynelatende aksepterer, men hvor grammatikken lurer oss. Flere folk har vært i Paris enn jeg har. Folk pleier ikke å være bevisst på setningens illusoriske kvaliteter før ... -
Knowledge and Its Legitimacy, an Exploratory (Meta)Ethical Framework-Based Analysis of Narratives on Coastal Flooding Risks in a Changing Climate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Knowledge quality assessment (KQA) has been developed in order to analyze the role of knowledge in situations of high stakes and urgency when characterized by deep uncertainty and ignorance. Governing coastal flood risk ... -
Spinnehjul i middelalderens Norge: husflidsprodukt eller handelsvare? En studie av spinnehjul i keramikk og stein fra Borgund på Sunnmøre
(Master thesis, 2022-06-03)This thesis explores the organisation of production of spindle whorls in Sunnmøre, western Norway. It is a sub-study of the Borgund Kaupang Project, and thus it has a bottom-up perspective, seeking knowledge of everyday ... -
10 years and going strong? Coastal flood risk management in the wake of a major coastal event (the 2010 Xynthia storm, Charente Maritime, France)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)2020 marked the 10th anniversary of the Xynthia storm that hit Western Europe at the end of February 2010. In France it triggered an unprecedented coastal flooding event, with most human and material damage concentrated ... -
Virtual Reality for the Visually Impaired
(Master thesis, 2022-06-03)This thesis aims to illuminate and describe how there are problems with the development of virtual reality regarding visually impaired people. After discussing the reasons how and why this is a problem, this thesis will ... -
Disability in a World of Influence: How the presentation of disabled influencers affects body image amongst the disabled community
(Master thesis, 2022-06-03)Within the past ten years, the notion of Influencer has taken over social media platforms and led to the phenomenon of influencer culture. As influencer culture has gained popularity and saturated the Instagram platform, ... -
Phonetics of Negative Headshake in Russian Sign Language: A Small-Scale Corpus Study
(Chapter, 2022)We analyzed negative headshake found in the online corpus of Russian Sign Language. We found that negative headshake can co-occur with negative manual signs, although most of these signs are not accompanied by it. We applied ...
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