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Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study examines the pragmatic functions of fuck among British English teenagers in casual conversation in two youth language corpora from the 1990s and 2010s. It applies a corpus-pragmatics approach to explore how the ... -
La correlation temps-espace dans l’oeuvre romanesque de Mongo Beti. Parcours chronotopique de Ville cruelle, Perpétue et Branle-bas en noir et blanc
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-12-06)This work is an exploration of Bakhtin’s chronotope in the novel of the Cameroonian writer Mongo Beti, whose pen has relentlessly been exposing, for nearly half a century, the abuses of colonialism and neo-colonialism on ... -
The Cosmology of Lists in Ancient and Contemporary Societies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This essay is my keynote address to the conference Religions, Science and Technology in Cultural Contexts: Dynamics of Change, NTNU, Trondheim (2012), on the topic of ‘lists’: omen compendia, lists of gods, lists of the ... -
The Cosmopolitan Rights of Foreigners. A Phenomenological Defense of Cosmopolitan Law
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-06-18)This thesis argues that states have cosmopolitan obligations of a moral-legal character. These obligations are articulated as “cosmopolitan law”, which is a Kantian term referring to the morallegal norms that ... -
Cotton import to Norway 1835-1920. Import, industrialization and globalization.
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Court Trials ... in Egypt
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Covid-1984. En studie av motnarrativ om koronatiltak
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The first Covid-19 infection in Norway was discovered in February 2020, and within two weeks the country went into lockdown. Covid-19, or corona, resulted in a number of measures, such as closing down schools and kindergartens, ... -
Creencias Sobre el Aprendizaje de Idiomas: Un estudio exploratorio sobre las creencias de los estudiantes de secundaria inferior en Noruega en relación con el aprendizaje de español como tercera lengua.
(Master thesis, 2021-11-23)In the field of foreign and third language learning, beliefs, as one of the determining factors in the learning of lower secondary students in Norway, remain relatively unexplored. This study investigates the beliefs about ... -
Creencias y actitudes lingüísticas acerca de las formas de tratamiento en Nicaragua
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-06-01)The aim of this study is to describe and interpret the attitudes of Nicaraguans towards the use of the pronouns of address, based on a mentalist theory of language attitudes study. To reveal the attitudes, I present a ... -
CREST (Climate REconstruction SofTware): A probability density function (PDF)-based quantitative climate reconstruction method
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11-28)Several methods currently exist to quantitatively reconstruct palaeoclimatic variables from fossil botanical data. Of these, probability density function (PDF)-based methods have proven valuable as they can be applied to ... -
Crime, Punishment, and Understanding Justice through Injustice
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-08-24)The thesis discusses the justice of state punishment in response to criminal wrongs. The introductory chapter explores the logic of the concept of justice itself, proposing that we understand justice as the function of ... -
Crisis and Infantilization in the Technological Landscapes of Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952), J.G. Ballard's Crash (1973) and Dave Eggers' The Circle (2013)
(Master thesis, 2015-11-27)Literature has a long history of articulating the dangers as well as the possibilities for human life in confrontation with technology. Among the literatures expressing these concerns we also find Player Piano (1952) by ... -
Critical evaluation of in situ analyses for the characterisation of red pigments in rock paintings: A case study from El Castillo, Spain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Paint technology, namely paint preparation and application procedures, is an important aspect of painting traditions. With the expansion of archaeometric studies and in situ non-destructive analytical methods, a renewal ... -
A Critique of Control and Black Boxes: Lit Mods of Ian Hatcher’s ‘⌰ (Total Runout)’
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article analyzes Ian Hatcher’s online and kinetic poem “⌰ (Total Runout)” (2015) from a point of view of a critique of corporate and governmental black boxing, at the level of its code, text, visual output, sound, and ... -
Cro-Magnon personal ornaments revisited
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Cro-Magnon rock-shelter hosted the first discovered and certainly one of the most important Gravettian burial sites in Europe. However, the copious ornament collection found among the human skeletons was not analysed ... -
Cruisetrafikk i bygd og by - en kulturvitenskapelig analyse av cruiseturismens konsekvenser på lokalsamfunn og innbyggere i Flåm og Bergen
(Master thesis, 2020-12-04)Sammendrag Cruiseturisme er en form for turisme som har økt globalt de siste tiårene, og kan sees på som et internasjonalt fenomen. Denne trenden øker også i Norge, der temaet både diskuteres og debatteres. Bergen er det ... -
The cryptic case of Otomys sloggetti (Sloggett’s vlei rat): Interpreting murid molar morphology in the fossil record
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Vlei rats (Family: Muridae; Subfamily: Otomyinae) have a widespread distribution in southern Africa. They are favoured prey of barn and spotted eagle owls, and frequently become associated with archaeological deposits when ... -
Crystal ball or wishful thinking? Reference pathways as tools for net zero investing in pension funds
(Master thesis, 2023-05-16)This thesis will examine the premonitions and parameters of two models for sustainable finance development: the International Energy Agency (IEA) model Net Zero by 2050, and the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) model ... -
Cuba fue diferente. El derrumbe del socialismo euro-soviético visto desde el Partido Comunista de Cuba (1989-1992 y 2013)
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-04-28)The Collapse of European-Soviet Socialism (1989-1991, “the collapse”) created a profound socio-economic crisis in Cuba, and also had a strong political-ideological impact on this Caribbean nation. Many observers ...