Blar i Faculty of Humanities på tittel
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The 100,000–77,000‑Year Old Middle Stone Age Micromammal Sequence from Blombos Cave, South Africa: Local Climatic Stability or a Tale of Predator Bias?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In this paper, we present a case study of the micromammal sequence from Marine Isotope Stage 5 (130,000–71,000 YBP) at Blombos Cave on the southern Cape coast of South Africa. Our analyses of the micromammal assemblage ... -
A 115,000-year-old expedient bone technology at Lingjing, Henan, China
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Activities attested since at least 2.6 Myr, such as stone knapping, marrow extraction, and woodworking may have allowed early hominins to recognize the technological potential of discarded skeletal remains and equipped ... -
1814 - Kontakten mellom Christian Frederik og Frederik 6. i stattholder- og regentperioden 1813-1814.
(Master thesis, 2014-05-14)Denne oppgaven handler om 1814, det "forunderlige" året i Norge. Hvem var det som gjorde dette året mulig? Tidligere forskning deler seg i to hovedsyn om 1814. Det ene synet dreier seg om at 1814 var et resultat av langsiktig ... -
A Cross-linguistic Form and Meaning Priming Study on Mandarin Chinese Multilingual Speakers
(Master thesis, 2020-06-20) -
A home of one’s own | Philosophical considerations on the issue of housing
(Master thesis, 2020-12-15)While architects, social psychologists, anthropologists and historians have conceptualized it in varied ways, little has been made of the issue of housing in philosophy. The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that many ... -
A Master's Thesis Has No Name: A study on personal names in fantasy literature
(Master thesis, 2019-06-21)Denne masteroppgåva handlar om personnamn i fantasy-seriane A Song of Ice and Fire av George R.R. Martin og The Stormlight Archive av Brandon Sanderson. Oppgåva sitt mål er undersøke korleis personnamna frå desse seriane ... -
A Ritual of Doubt Yiqing (疑情) in Kanhua Chan Buddhism and its Practice in Korean Contemporary Ganhwa Seon meditation
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Ability qua Mobility: Disability as Identity and Hierarchy in Brave New World and Flowers for Algernon
(Master thesis, 2020-05-29)Skildringa av funksjonshemjing i litteraturen er ein verdifull målestokk for dei samfunnsverdiane som eit samfunn forventar både av kropp og sinn. Science Fiction inviterer særskild ei lesing med fokus på funksjonshemjing ... -
Abort og fosterreduksjon: En etisk sammenligning
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)De siste årene har fosterreduksjon i økende grad vært gjenstand for debatt i Norge, og intensiteten nådde et foreløpig maksimum da Lovavdelingen leverte tolknings-uttalelsen § 2 - Tolkning av abortloven i 2016 som svar på ... -
Abortion and multifetal pregnancy reduction: An ethical comparison
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In recent years, multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR) has increasingly been a subject of debate in Norway. The intensity of this debate reached a tentative maximum when the Legislation Department delivered their interpretative ... -
The Abyss of Intransitivity: On Critical Realism and Theories of Religion
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Academic Vocabulary Unleashed Potential?A corpus study of English course materials for advanced Norwegian learners of English
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)A corpus study of English course materials for advanced Norwegian learners of English -
Academic writing in the Baltic States: Introducing the Bwrite project
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In the project Bwrite (Academic Writing in the Baltic States: Rhetorical Structures through Cultures and Languages), we aim to address the lack of an empirically grounded holistic understanding of non-Anglophone writing ... -
Accents in Wonderland: An Attitudinal Study of the Use of Accents in Disney's Originals and Remakes
(Master thesis, 2019-06-08)This thesis is a study of language attitudes which aims to investigate how various English accents are used in Disney films. The data consists of 16 Disney films including eight original films released between 1950 and ... -
Access as transaction. A discourse analysis of users’ construction of value and cost on Facebook, Netflix and Fanfiction.net.
(Master thesis, 2014-11-19)Internet services are big business, but what exactly are the service providers selling, with no physical product? And what are the costumers paying, when so often, the services are evidently free? Truth is, it really doesn't ... -
An acoustic study of the low back merger and northern cities shift in Des Moines, Iowa
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)The present study is a sociolinguistic study conducted in Des Moines, Iowa. It deals with the Low Back Merger and the Northern Cities Shift. It deals in particular with what happens to the low back vowels in an area affected ... -
Acquiesced and unrefuted : The growth of scientific myths
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-06-05)This thesis explores the phenomenon of scientific myths distributed in academic discourses. Drawing on a set of myth-examples, I explicate a definition of the term ‘scientific myth’, arguing that it ought primarily to be ... -
The Acquisition of english prepositions by Norwegian L2 learners - a Corpus-based error analysis
(Master thesis, 2017-06-14)