Faculty of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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Eyebrow position in grammatical and emotional expressions in Kazakh-Russian Sign Language: A quantitative study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06)Facial expressions in sign languages are used to express grammatical functions, such as question marking, but can also be used to express emotions (either the signer’s own or in constructed action contexts). Emotions and ... -
Get lost, troll: How accusations of trolling in newspaper comment sections affect the debate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This qualitative study explores instances where someone is accused of being a troll or a bot in newspaper comment sections. Trolls have been known to create a hostile environment in comment sections, often motivated by ... -
From Elite Folk Science to the Policy Legend of the Circular Economy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07)This paper explores the implications of the widespread success of the term circular economy in the institutional and public debate. The concept of circular economy in itself implies a logical contradiction: on the one hand, ... -
Identifying logical evidence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-13)Given the plethora of competing logical theories of validity available, it’s understandable that there has been a marked increase in interest in logical epistemology within the literature. If we are to choose between these ... -
A sensitivity analysis of the PAWN sensitivity index
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The PAWN index is gaining traction among the modelling community as a sensitivity measure. However, the robustness to its design parameters has not yet been scrutinized: the size (𝑁) and sampling (𝜀) of the model output, ... -
Universalising idealism: The cross-cultural case of Russian religious thought
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The article analyses the idealist dimension of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian religious thought as it appears in key works by Vladimir Solov’ev (1853–1900), Sergei Bulgakov (1871–1944) and Nikolai ... -
Transforming Scientists’ Understanding of Science–Society Relations. Stimulating Double‑Loop Learning when Teaching RRI
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The problem of developing research and innovation in accordance with society’s general needs and values has received increasing attention in research policy. In the last 7 years, the concept of “Responsible Research and ... -
Learning Arabic in Scandinavia: Motivation, metacognition, and autonomy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Rising levels of immigration, especially from the Middle East and North Africa, have led to significant socio-demographic changes and increasing levels of linguistic diversity in Scandinavian countries. In parallel with ... -
Angrepet på Kalmar 1611. Militæradministrative forhold under Kalmarkrigens oppløp og innledende fase
(Master thesis; HIS350, 2018)The purpose of this thesis has been to explore the state of military- and administrative development in the kingdom of Denmark at the outset of the Kalmar War in 1611; and to do so through the perspectives of theories on ... -
Language teacher multilingualism in Norway and Russia: Identity and beliefs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Multilingualism has witnessed growing interest as a subject of academic study and as a state to aspire to for many of the world's citizenry. In tandem with this growing interest, countries around the world have started to ... -
Bordering through recalibration: Exploring the temporality of the German “Ausbildungsduldung.
(Journal article, 2020)The past decades of inquiry into the “what, where, and who” of borders have more recently been followed by an interest in borders’ temporal dimensions. In this article, I contribute to this research by analyzing how border ... -
England, Whose England?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-04)A review essay of Adriana Neagu, Continental Perceptions of Englishness, ‘Foreignness’ and the Global Turn. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2017. -
Evaluating teacher multilingualism across contexts and multiple languages: validation and insights
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In response to the need for quantitative instruments that can provide insights into language teacher multilingualism on a large scale, this article discusses the development of the MULTITEACH questionnaire via a five-stage ... -
De politiske gruppeteatrene i Norge : Estetisk-politiske virkemidler og kollektive praksiser: Svartkatten, Pendlerne, Hålogaland Teater, Perleporten og Tramteatret
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-19)The dissertation: «De politiske gruppeteatrene i Norge – Estetisk-politiske virkemidler og kollektive praksiser: Svartkatten, Pendlerne, Hålogaland Teater, Perleporten og Tramteatret» has as its main research focus the ... -
Logical Predictivism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08)Motivated by weaknesses with traditional accounts of logical epistemology, considerable attention has been paid recently to the view, known as anti-exceptionalism about logic (AEL), that the subject matter and epistemology ... -
Perleporten – et post-brechtiansk teater?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)I denne artikkelen viser jeg til Perleporten Teatergruppes særegne formspråk i forestillingene Knoll & Tott (1975) og i Jug meg en saga (1976), og hvordan formspråket er et resultat av gruppens politiske ståsted og anarkistisk ... -
Ernst Jüngers autoritære poetikk: En lesning av In Stahlgewittern
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-03)The article deals with Ernst Jünger’s debut novel, In Stahlgewittern (1920), from the perspective of the writer’s position in contemporary debates about the means and objectives of the novel genre. The first part sets out ... -
Literature in contemporary foreign language school textbooks in Russia: Content, approaches, and readability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-05)In light of the growing importance placed by states on the use of authentic materials in foreign language education programs, this study explored the literary content found in the 18 English, French, and German ministry-approved ... -
Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized
(Journal article, 2020-06)The modern project of creating human-like artificial intelligence (AI) started after World War II, when it was discovered that electronic computers are not just number-crunching machines, but can also manipulate symbols. ... -
Gardien du frère – fils du gardien. Frères et étrangers dans Meursault, contre-enquête de Kamel Daoud
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Dès la publication de Meursault, contre-enquête (en 2013 en Algérie, en 2014 en France), la critique a noté le double rôle de l’oeuvre d’Albert Camus dans le roman de Kamel Daoud. À première vue, le roman est une réécriture ...