Department of Linguistics, Literary and Aestetic Studies
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Sannhetens pris i Amalie Skrams drama: En sammenligning av Gjæld og Agnete
(Master thesis, 2025-02-03)Denne masteravhandlingen tar for seg dramaene Gjæld (1885-87) og Agnete (1893) av Amalie Skram. Begge verkene handler om borgerlige kvinner som forsøker å skjule sannheten om sine økonomiske problemer. Sannheten kommer ... -
The Norwegian language in Argentina: A first look at heritage Norwegian in a new context
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This paper presents preliminary observations of Norwegian as a heritage language (HL) in a contact situation that has largely gone unnoticed up until now: Argentina, where Spanish is the main contact language. We discuss ... -
Latin-Amerika-norsk: Noen første observasjoner
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Norsk som arvespråk i USA og Canada, også kjent som amerikanorsk, er et forskningsfelt med lange tradisjoner. Norsk som arvespråk i andre kontekster er derimot nærmest ukjent terreng. Denne artikkelen presenterer noen ... -
Sluttrapport. Revisjon av Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordboka – Revisjonsprosjektet
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Better letter: Iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)While iconicity has sometimes been defined as meaning transparency, it is better defined as a subjective phenomenon bound to an individual’s perception and influenced by their previous language experience. In this article, ... -
Synthetic probes: A qualitative experiment in latent space exploration
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This essay outlines a methodological approach for the qualitative study of generative artificial intelligence models. After introducing the epistemological challenges faced by users of generative models, I argue that these ... -
Media and gender: A Nordic perspective
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Challenging Precarization: Maria Navarro Skaranger’s Portrait of a Young Mother in 'Emily Forever' (2021)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)The article argues that Maria Navarro Skaranger’s novel Emily forever (2021) can be interpreted as a comment on the situation of young mothers in contemporary Norway. The main character is a 19-year-old pregnant woman who ... -
Decoding Metadiscourse Markers in Estonian Academic Texts: A Language-Specific Perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article presents the development of a specialized data set for analyzing Estonian metadiscourse markers in academic usage, extending Hyland's interpersonal metadiscourse model to a non–Indo-European language. Our goal ... -
Strangely enough: The rise of a sentence-adverbial construction
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Previous research has found that Norwegian has one productive sentence-adverbial construction, viz. expressions such as underlig nok ‘strangely enough’. Their constituents are an adjective in the positive indefinite singular ... -
Naturfantasier i Ausonius' Mosella
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)I artikkelen diskuterer jeg Ausonius’ dikt fra senantikken, Mosella, om elven med samme navn og med særlig oppmerksomhet rettet mot dens rekke av elve-ekfraser (v. 150–239). Med utgangspunkt i dikterens uttalelse om at han ... -
Motherhood, Marriage, and Swimming in the Sea - Allegorical Readings in Sara Stridsberg’s 'Happy Sally' (2004) and Inger Bråtveit’s 'Dette er også vatn' (2018)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article explores women’s relationship to the sea and contributes with a gender perspective to Humanistic Ocean studies. In Swedish author Sara Stridsberg’s novel Happy Sally (2004) and Norwegian author Inger Bråtveit’s ... -
‘A distant echo attracts me, fragrance of life beyond’: growing up a metalhead in India
(Journal article, 2025)The paper is an account of growing up a metalhead in a suburb of a city in south Gujarat and then in Kolkata. The paper situates the author’s experience of growing up in a suburb of a non-metropolitan city in India as a ... -
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Advancements in generative artificial intelligence have led to a rapid proliferation of machine learning models capable of synthesizing text, images, sounds, and other kinds of content. While the increasing realism of ... -
A cross-linguistic study of lexical and derived antonymy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Antonymy is the lexical relation of opposition. The nature of the oppositeness may differ – e.g., contradictory (‘true’–‘false’) or gradable (‘tall’–‘short’) – and there may be variation as to the relationship in their ... -
Sign duration and signing rate in British Sign Language, Dutch Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this article, we look at sign duration and signing rate in corpora of three sign languages – British Sign Language (BSL), Dutch Sign Language (NGT), and Swedish Sign Language (STS). We investigate whether token frequency ... -
Cross-linguistic patterns of meta-discourse: Disciplinary Similarities and Section-based differences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This study examines metadiscourse markers across a corpus of Estonian and Lithuanian journal articles in the field of linguistics. We aim to 1) compare the global use of all the metadiscourse markers across the languages ... -
Tracing the Image : The Absence/Presence of the Holy Shroud in Sixteenth-Century Bologna.
(Doctoral thesis, 2025-03-14)På sporet av bildet: Fraværet/nærværet av Det Hellige Likkledet (Likkledet i Torino) i 1500-tallets Bologna. I kunsthistoriefaget blir renessansen ofte ansett som en grunnleggende hjørnestein i etableringen av det moderne ... -
Mønster i skrift - En tverrfaglig analyse av utvalgte norske diplomer fra 1300 til 1500
(Master thesis, 2024-11-20)Denne masteroppgaven med tittelen Mønster i skrift - En tverrfaglig analyse av utvalgte norske diplomer fra 1300 til 1500 av Tonje H. Waldersnes undersøker et korpus på 20 norrøne diplomer fra perioden 1300-1500, med søkelys ... -
Rollen av versekunst i hedenske magiske runeinnskrifter
(Master thesis, 2024-11-20)Dette er et kort sammendrag av masteravhandlingen til Anna Vlasova Våtvik som var skrevet ferdig høst 2024. Tittelen til avhandlingen er «Rollen av versekunst i hedenske magiske runeinnskrifter». Problemstillingen av denne ...
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