This article presents Gérard Genette’s concept of the paratext by defining the term and by describing its characteristics. The use of the concept in other disciplines than literary studies and for other media than printed books is discussed. The last section shows the relevance of the concept for library and information science in general and for knowledge organization, in which paratext in particular ...

The first Sámi newspaper, Sagai Muitalæggje, was established in 1903, and in 1906 the first Sámi was elected to the Norwegian parliament. Through these two events, the Sámi (the indigenous population of Norway) had their own voice heard and achieved political influence in the public sphere for the first time. What was the role and significance of libraries in this process? Anders Larsen, the editor ...

Die in der Schule als zweite Fremdsprachen gelernten Sprachen sind in Norwegen als Universitätsfächer in der Krise, darunter Deutsch. Geringe Studentenzahlen, schwache sprachliche Kompetenzen der Studienanfänger und ein auf den Lehrerberuf begrenzter Abnehmermarkt sind die Hauptherausforderungen. Gleichzeitig ruft die Wirtschaft in Norwegen nach Fachkräften, die gut Deutsch können und diese ...

Background and aims: Many children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) develop reading difficulties. The purpose of this study is to better understand variation in the reading outcomes of children with DLD using a personcentered approach.<p> <p>Method: 87 monolingual Dutch children diagnosed with DLD performed at ages 5 or 6 years nine tests of nonverbal IQ, oral language proficiency, ...

Opera can be considered a multimedia document created through a complex process involving multiple people and media. Opera arose in the 17th century as a way to synthesize multiple art forms. This work offers a panoramic overview of the historic development of opera, including examples of key works along this trajectory. It closes with some questions about the future of opera.

Contemporary reviewers of Byron’s work often noted his skill in cultivating sympathy for outlaw figures – a skill that was admired, but also worried over since it implied sympathy’s independence from a moral code. Recent scholarship about sympathy in the Romantic period has not focused much on Byron, but this essay highlights acomplexity and originality in his invocation of sympathy that has been ...

Når den russiske presidenten hevdar at Ukraina høyrer heime i det russiske imperiet, viser han mellom anna til språklege tilhøve. Ukrainsk er ikkje noko eige språk, blir det sagt. Dei færraste språkvetarar vil vere samde i dette. La oss sjå nærmare på dei faktiske forholda. Korleis er slektskapen mellom ukrainsk og russisk? Kor ulike er dei to språka? Korleis har forholdet mellom ukrainsk og russisk ...

In studies of bilingual word recognition with masked priming, first language (L1) primes activate their second language (L2) translation equivalents in lexical decision tasks, but effects in the opposite direction are weaker (Wen & van Heuven, 2017). This study seeks to clarify the relative weight of stimulus-level (frequency) and individual-level (L2 proficiency, L2 exposure/use) factors in the ...

In recent years, research examining the neurocognitive effects of bilingualism has undergone a shift in focus towards examining the neurocognitive effects of individual differences within specific aspects of language experience. The DeLuca et al study advances this direction in showing a specificity of neural adaptations to separate aspects of language experience. However, this approach is an early ...

Resilience is the ability to cope with change. The concept of resilience originating in the natural sciences has been applied in a variety of disciplines, from physics through ecology and social ecology to psychology and cultural studies. In public library research, very little resilience research has been conducted. The derived concepts of community resilience and information resilience have been ...