The article is an overview of Sami literature, past and present, with a specific emphasis on the connection between tradition and innovation, in which literature is regarded in a broader sense than only limited to the written word. Thus the relationship between the traditional epic yoik songs and contemporary poetry is being dealt with, as is the multimedia approach that several Sami artists have ...

Climate change is a major challenge to Arctic and other Indigenous peoples, but not the only and often not the most pressing one. We propose re-framing the treatment of climate change in policy and research, to make sure health, poverty, education, cultural vitality, equity, justice, and other topics highlighted by the people themselves and not just climate science also get the attention they ...

Mastergradsavhandlingen tematiserer hvordan matematikklærere arbeider med matematikkvansker. For å få innsikt i dette har jeg gjennom kvalitative forskningsintervju undersøkt hvordan matematikklærere forholder seg til og forstår matematikkvansker, samt hvordan arbeidet med elever som strever i matematikk planlegges. Utvalget av informanter består av fem matematikklærere på mellomtrinnet med ...

This article researches patronymics in a broad sense – taken as components of a proper name that, morphologically, can be decomposed in a first name and a morpheme – with a focus on Spanish and Belarusian – the second conforming to a narrow definition of patronymic, where it is a component of a proper name distinct from both the first name and the surname. Our claim is that patronymics are the ...

Denne studien handler om hvordan forståelse, meninger og erfaringer tre pedagoger har av et godt læringsmiljø i arbeid med barn med autismespekterforstyrrelser, samt hva de mener er viktig for å skape et læringsmiljø som ivaretar deres behov. Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i teori som viser hvilke behov barn med autisme har i barnehagen, og hvordan man tilrettelegger for å ivareta behovene og fremme ...

This master thesis presents an original analysis of how branding is produced through verbal and non-verbal communication in the context of so-called Marketing 4.0, whose main differential properties are the extensive use of digital media and a horizontal distribution on information that privileges the interaction with consumers. Both properties make establishing a brand image more crucial, and make ...

Tradisjonelt har det norske genussystemet blitt karakterisert som lite transparent. Et viktig spørsmål er om språkbrukere likevel kan være sensitive til visse egenskaper ved substantiver og bruker disse produktivt når de tildeler genus til ukjente ord. I denne artikkelen undersøker vi eksperimentelt språkbrukeres sensitivitet til fonologiske egenskaper som vi har identifisert gjennom korpusundersøkelser. ...

Although trade union membership in the UK went into serious decline in the decades following the Conservative election victory of 1979, recent years have seen an increase. Strikes nowadays are typically lesser in scale and duration than the big strikes of the twentieth century. The law on ballot thresholds under the Trade Union Act 2016 represents a formidable obstacle. Nevertheless, strikes remain ...

In the ScanDiaSyn­survey, certain aspects of double object constructions were investigated. For double object verbs in the active diathesis, the focus was on non­selected or "free" indirect objects. More specifically, the question focused on was to which extent non­prototypical ditransitive verbs can take a recipient arguments realized as noun phrases in a position before the direct object. The ...

The present study employed a self-paced reading task in conjunction with concurrent acceptability judgements to examine how similar or diferent English natives and Chinese learners of English are when processing non-local agreement. We also tested how determiner-number specifcation modulates number agreement computation in both native and non-native processing by manipulating number marking with ...