How do bilingual readers of languages that have similar scripts identify a language switch? Recent behavioral and electroencephalographic results suggest that they rely on orthotactic cues to recognize the language of the words they read in ambiguous contexts. Previous research has shown that marked words with language-specific letter sequences (i.e., letter sequences that are illegal in one of the ...

I Victoria (1898) av Knut Hamsun dør den kvinnelige hovedpersonen av tuberkulose bare 23 år gammel. Victoria er en av Hamsuns mest kjente romaner, men tuberkulosen som motiv har kun i liten grad påkalt kritikernes interesse. I denne artikkelen vil jeg drøfte hvordan fremstillingen av tuberkulose korresponderer med Hamsuns egen sykdomserfaring, samt med de rådende historiske og kulturelle forestillinger ...

El 31 de mayo de este año 2020 falleció en Nueva York la gran filóloga Lía Schwartz (Corrientes, Argentina, 1941). La noticia de su fallecimiento tuvo repercusión en diferentes medios académicos e institucionales de Europa, Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos, y evidenció la gran admiración, el agradecimiento y el profundo respeto que los hispanistas —en especial los dedicados al Siglo de Oro— tenían ...

Previous research has shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing cognitive control. Bilinguals’ enhanced cognitive control is thought to be caused by the necessity to exert more language control in bilingual compared to monolingual settings. Surprisingly, between-group research of cognitive effects of bilingualism is hardly ever combined with within-group research that ...

This article investigates the multilingual experiences of three Norwegian and Spanish-speaking adolescents with transnational backgrounds. Drawing on narrative analysis and positioning theory, the article seeks to understand how the adolescents position themselves in relation to different expectations of linguistic competence, identities, and their cultural and linguistic inheritance. By investigating ...

Er vi nordmenn eigentleg så språktolerante som vi likar å tru? Blant språkforskarar utanlands blir Noreg sett på som eit land med stor takhøgd for språkleg mangfald. Men i kva grad set eigentleg det norske folket pris på språkmangfald? Kvifor ser ein stadig negative og til dels hatske utfall mot nynorsk? Kvifor møter meir synleggjering av samisk språk i Nord-Noreg sterk folkeleg motstand? Er det ...

I artikeln analyseras Knut Hamsuns novell ”Hemmelig ve” (1897) ur queer-perspektiv. Artikeln argumenterar för att Hamsuns novell skildrar ett samkönat erotiskt begär mellan berättaren och den man som betecknas som ”den främmande”. Den främmande förstås som berättarens dubbelgångare, och i egenskap av dubbelgångare representerar han berättarens förbjudna begär. Denna tolkning tar som utgångspunkt en ...

This paper discusses how different ways of defining the ontological status of recorded sound have developed throughout the 20th century. My claim is that even within the period of analog technology, sound recording was moving away from its purposes of preserving and documenting real life musical performances. I will illustrate this by using three different examples. First, I will look at how John ...

This article provides an overview of the syntax and semantics of degree in Spanish, eventually suggesting that degree structure should be viewed as equivalent to aspect in the verbal domain. §1 introduces several of the themes that will be discussed in the article, while §2 introduces the semantics of degree. §3 discusses the basic syntactic properties of degree, particularly with adjectives. §4 ...

In Harun Farocki’s lifelong study of the mute language of manual expressions, the human hand is explored not only as a versatile tool, but as a repository of social memory, a topos in the genealogy of the moving image, and a critical agent in the theory and practice of filmmaking itself. While cinema distinguished itself from previous artistic media through its capacity to salvage and store everyday ...