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Contagious "Corona" Compounding by Journalists in a CLARIN Newspaper Monitor Corpus
(Chapter, 2021)Newspaper monitor corpora, which incorporate new materials on a regular basis, are particularly useful for tracking linguistic changes spurred by current developments. The COVID19 pandemic prompted a case study in the ... -
A Contemporary Body in Classical Guise. Representation of disability in classical form and contemporary beauty norm in Alison Lapper Pregnant.
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)This master thesis looks at how people with physical disabilities have been portrayed, and is portrayed, in art. When Alison Lapper Pregnant was exhibited on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, the artwork opened up for ... -
Contemporary British Working-Class Literature: Precarity and Transcendent Solidarity
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Denne masteroppgaven ser på samtids arbeiderklasselitteratur, og analyserer hvordan den gir uttrykk for en økende usikkerhet (precarity) i livene til arbeiderklassefolk. Dette analyseres gjennom samtids klasseanalyse av ... -
Contemporary Yoga: Legitimizing authenticity. Interviews with founders of yoga schools in Rishikesh
(Master thesis, 2017-06-10)Dette prosjektet presenterer en analyse av hvordan grunnleggere av yoga skoler i Rishikesh definerer autentisk yoga. Analysen er basert på et fire måners feltarbeid i Rishikesh, Uttarakhand nord i India som innebar deltakende ... -
Contested constitutions. Constitutional development in the Sudan 1956-2005.
(Master thesis, 2014-05-14)The topic for this Master thesis is Constitutional Development in Sudan from 1956-2005. This thesis concentrates on the constitutional history in the Sudan, with an emphasis on the country's four implemented constitutions ... -
Contested legacies of early modern colonialism in Norway: A summary of the 2020 debates on Ludvig Holberg and Jørgen Thormøhlen
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Contested utopias: Language ideologies in Valerii Votrin's Logoped
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Contesting the Rural Idyll in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)This project examines the rural idyll genre in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford. Several literary critics refer to Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford as a rural idyll' narrative. In consequence the novel is considered to pertain to ... -
Contingent faculty in ecology and STEM: an uneven landscape of challenges for higher education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The number of contingent or non‐tenure‐track faculty at colleges and universities in the United States has been growing over the past several decades; they now constitute nearly 70% of the non‐student academic workforce. ... -
Continuity of Texts: Metafiction in a Cortazar Short Story and its Swedish Translation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article analyzes the Swedish translation of the short story Continuidad de los parques, written by the Argentine author Julio Cortázar and translated into Swedish by the translator Jan Sjögren. This short story is an ... -
"The Contrails Streaked Cleanly in the High Sky" An Ecocritical Reading of Don DeLillo's White Noise and Underworld
(Master thesis, 2012-11-20)This thesis will examine the articulation, significance, and changing notion of the environment in two novels by the American author Don DeLillo: White Noise (1985) and Underworld (1997). This thesis will read DeLillo's ... -
Contrasting the framing of urban climate resilience
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Cities worldwide face climate change and other complex challenges and strive to become more resilient to the shocks and stresses that these bring. The notion of urban (climate) resilience has become highly popular in both ... -
Control and Practical Moral Responsibility - A hard incompatibilist solution to the free will problem that doesn`t require a revolution of our reactive attitudes
(Master thesis, 2013-09-03)This thesis is an investigation into the free will debate and the problem of free will. Is free will and moral responsibility possible in a determinate universe? As old as this problem is, philosophers are still grappling ... -
Control and raising: Gone with(out) a trace?
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Control in a Norwegian grammar maze
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Coreference processing of Control constructions and their pronoun-containing counterparts can be studied experimentally using priming or interference paradigms. We replicate findings in a priming study on non-finite Control ... -
Controverses du changement climatique : la représentation des paroles d’autrui dans les pages de discussion sur Wikipédia francophone et norvégien
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Résumé Le présent article se propose d’explorer l’encyclopédie collaborative Wikipédia au prisme de deux aspects ayant particulièrement intéressé Kjersti Fløttum au fil de ses travaux : (i) la crise climatique, qui sera ... -
Conversations About Responsible Nanoresearch
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-04-03)There is currently a strong focus on responsible research in relation to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology. This study presents a series of conversations with nanoresearchers, with the ‘European Commission ... -
The Coptic Translation of Epiphanius of Salamis's Ancoratus and the Origenist Controversy in Upper Egypt
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Two manuscripts from around the 9th and the 10th century bear witness to a Coptic translation of the Ancoratus, originally written in Greek by Epiphanius, bishop of Salamis, in 374. Like his more famous sequel to this work, ... -
Coronastalgia and covidience: A corpus linguistic study of the productivity of corona and covid as constituents in word-formation
(Master thesis, 2022-11-21)Denne masteroppgaven utforsker hvordan orddanning har skjedd under covid-19 pandemien, og hvordan konstituentene corona og covid blir brukt i dannelsen av nye ord samt produktiviteten av prosessene som skaper de. I tillegg ...