Department of Linguistics, Literary and Aestetic Studies
Recent Submissions
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Aetiology and Justice in the Danaid Trilogy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The Danaid trilogy showcased the aition of the birth of the Danaans, the heroic Greeks of epic poetry. In the Suppliant maidens, Danaus and his daughters are staged as basically positive characters, in particular through ... -
Kva gjer andrespråkslærarar med talemålet sitt i undervising av vaksne innlærarar? Ei kvalitativ undersøking av lærarar sine tilpassingar og læraroppfatningar om tilpassing av talemål
(Master thesis, 2021-09-01)Det er mykje som peikar på at andrespråksundervisinga er ein av få situasjonar i Noreg kor det ikkje er like naturleg å snakka dialekta si. Innanfor andrespråksforskinga er ein kjend med fenomenet lærarspråk, som skildrar ... -
Om politikvinner, ekspeditriser og kontormenn Ei undersøking av kjønnsmarkering i yrkestitlar i norsk i perioden frå 1920 til 2013
(Master thesis, 2021-09-01)Denne masteroppgåva undersøker kjønnsmarkering av yrkestitlar i norsk i perioden frå 1920 til 2013. Oppgåva teke føre seg to ulike måtar ein kan spesifisere kjønn på, gjennom kjønnsmarkerande etterledd og suffiks, og gjennom ... -
Det sensitive fotografiet - Migrasjon og følelser i norsk samtidsfotografi
(Master thesis, 2021-09-01)Har fotografiet som medium en spesiell evne til å vise sårbarhet og følelser? Hvordan manifesteres denne sensitiviteten, og hvordan kommer den til uttrykk i samtidsfotografiet som tematiserer migrasjon og forflytning? ... -
Nationalistiska utsöndringar: kroppsvätskor hos Wergeland och Almqvist
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)I denna artikel studeras kroppsvätskornas funktion i Henrik Wergelands Skabelsen, Mennesket og Messias (1830) i jämförelse med C.J.L. Almqvists Murnis (1819). Undersökningen motiveras av ett mer övergripande spörsmål om ... -
“Nobody Is Ever Alone”: The Use of Social Media Narrative to Include the Viewer in SKAM
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Lit Mods
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Seiça describes modification as an art practice meant to subvert and divert from what we—as readers, spectators, and also consumers—expect from technological apparati and platforms. He extends the study of mods to “lit ... -
Chromatic variation in late antique rainbows
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Depictions of rainbows in late antique and early Byzantine art follow the normal sequence of the spectral colours, only some bows exclude blue and violet. Another characteristic feature of the late antique rainbow is the ... -
The novel reconsidered: Emotions and anti-realism in mid-19th-century Scandinavian literature
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The aim of the present article is to investigate the novel as remediation of nationalist pedagogy: how was the pedagogical, nationalist project charged with emotions? How did elements from non-realist genres make emotions ... -
Tonal variation and change in Dalarna Swedish
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article questions the prevalent account of North Germanic tonogenesis, which proposes that at the outset, Accent 2 was characterized by a double-peaked melody close to the one found in central Swedish today (Riad 1998, ... -
Quantification: theoretical perspectives
(Chapter, 2021)The study of quantificational expressions is one of the central domains in the field of natural language semantics. Probably every language has means of expressing quantification, but quantifiers in natural languages are ... -
Information structure: theoretical perspectives
(Chapter, 2021)This chapter discusses the terminology commonly used in the information structure literature: in particular, topic, focus, contrast, and emphasis. An important component of our discussion is the impact of the visual-gestural ... -
Edition and Analysis of four Old Norwegian Law Fragments from Norway’s Riksarkivet
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The ethics of imagining and the dramaturgy of spectatorship
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article will address the ethical aspects of imagination and spectating. Since Plato’s denunciation of imagination in The Republic and Aristotle’s judgement in De Anima that ‘imaginings are for the most part false’, ... -
Students’ perspectives on English medium instruction within higher education. Exploring gender differences in Norway and Finland
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This study aims to explore gender differences in students’ perspectives on language use within higher education (HE), using data from a survey distributed to students at two universities in Norway and Finland. Analysing ... -
"To move a horror skilfully". Galskap og skrekk i to noveller av Edgar Allan Poe og Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Master thesis, 2021-06-02)Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) og Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) var samtidige, amerikanske forfattere som begge ble hyllet for sine evner til å «move a horror skilfully». Som en del av den senromantiske epoken var de med ... -
Dwarfs’ Family Relations and Female Dwarfs in Some Medieval Nordic Sources
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In this article, it is argued that the dvergar in Old Norse sources, such as skaldic poetry and the Eddas, contrary to what has often been claimed by previous research, are hardly an all-male race deprived of family life ... -
Introduction: Electronic Literature as a Framework for the Digital Humanities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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