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"Positivt ubehag" i det tabubelagte rommet En studie av hvordan traumelitteratur kan være en ressurs i norskundervisningen i videregående skole
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-14)Utgangspunktet for denne oppgaven bunner ut i hvordan man kan bruke traumelitteratur i norskundervisningen som ressurs ovenfor både lærere og elever. Tanken om hvordan det kan brukes som ressurs, tar utgangspunkt i å skape større åpenhet, bidra til identitetsutvikling og kunne øke livsmestring. For å kunne svare på problemstillingen har jeg brukt litteraturstudie som hoved metode for å finne teori ... -
The Acquisition of Functional Morphology, Semantics-Morphology and Syntax by Persian Learners of English The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 Acquisition
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-14)In the current thesis, I investigated the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2006, 2008, 2013) concerning Persian L1 speakers' acquisition of English as their second language. The Bottleneck Hypothesis (BH) focuses on the aspects of learning a second language that are challenging and those that are simple. According to this hypothesis, acquiring functional morphology is the challenging part (or the ... -
Overgangen fra innføringsklasse til ordinær klasse: En kvalitativ studie av en skoleleder, lærer og elev sine erfaringer med overgangen
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-14)Denne masteroppgaven handler om erfaringer med overgangen fra innføringsklasse til ordinær klasse. Vi skal undersøke denne overgangen fra elev-, lærer- og skolelederperspektivet. Studien ser altså på en og samme overgang, men fra ulike perspektiver med ulike roller i skolen. Empirien i studien baserer seg på tre kvalitative forskningsintervjuer, ett intervju per deltakerkategori. Vi har analysert ... -
Negative eksistensielle konstruksjoner. En korpuslingvistisk undersøkelse av norske ekvivalenter og russisk aspekt
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)Temaet for denne masteroppgaven i russisk språk- og litteratur er negative eksistensielle konstruksjoner (нечего, некуда, osv.) Jeg har en gjort en korpusundersøkelse av disse ordene, som jeg kaller "negative ord", ved å ta utgangspunkt i parallellkorpuset RuN. Dette er et korpus som består av en stor samling oversatte tekster. I hoveddelen av oppgaven undersøker jeg mulige konstruksjonsmønstre som ... -
Bidialektisme i digital kommunikasjon: En studie av to språkbrukeres skrivepraksiser
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-12)Denne masterstudien undersøker de digitale skriftspråkspraksisene til to bidialektale språkbrukere, Ingrid og Julie, som begge er i tjueårene. Prosjektet kartlegger hva som kjennetegner deres skriftlige språkbruk, og undersøker hva som kan forklare denne språkbruken. Begge deltakerne veksler mellom to dialekter og standardspråk i skrift på digitale flater. Empirien i denne studien består av et todelt ... -
Wild and Unnatural: Ideologies of Nature and the Paradox of Sapphic Modernities in Elsa Gidlow’s On a Grey Thread and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)At the turn of the twentieth century, the homosexual identity category was born amid modernity’s rapid urbanization. With the scientific categorization of the ‘sexual invert,’ queerness was naturalized as a degenerate fact of biology, opposing the prevailing mindset that homosexuality was unnatural and sinful. This historical shift gives rise to a nature paradox: How could the modern homosexual ... -
Sensing Collective Trauma: Acousmatic Sound in Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)This thesis explores the concepts of memory and trauma, individual and collective, based on the analysis of the film Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Shot in Colombia, the film indirectly engages with the violent and multifaceted conflict that has been affecting the country to various degrees since the 1960s. Drawing on the concepts of memory and trauma in psychology and cultural studies as ... -
“Eale eatnamis eatnan láhkái” Diiddaid ja sátnevádjasiid girjáivuohta sámi njálmmálaš árbevierus
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-06-07)Dán dutkamušas lean čađahan konteaksta- ja fáddáguorahallama dihto diidafearániin ja sátnevádjasiin. Váldomihttu dutkamušas lea guorahallat ahte movt diidafearániin ja sátnevádjasiin bohtet sámi máilmmigovat ovdan, ja movt diidafearániid fáttát sáhttet čujuhit diiddaide. Dutkamuššii lean válljen teoriijaid nugo álgoálbmotmetodologiija, kulturipmárdusa, sámi gulahallanvugiid ja sámi estetihka vuođđun, ... -
Understanding and investigating how parental smartphone use affects the parent-child relationship and child development, when the child is 0-5 years old.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-31)Denne studien utforsker hvordan foreldres smarttelefonbruk påvirker foreldre-barn-relasjonen og barns utvikling, når barnet er i alderen 0-5 år. Det ble utført en kunnskapsoppsummering i form av en kartleggingsoversikt (engelsk: scoping review), hvor målet var å ta et steg tilbake og kartlegge og narrativt beskrive eksisterende forskningsgrunnlag per desember 2022, ettersom tidligere systematiske ... -
Pia Arke and ‘Arctic Hysteria’: Visual Repatriation and the Problematics of a ‘Lost’ Artwork
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-15)his article examines Pia Arke’s artistic practice that engages with the phenomenon of ‘Arctic hysteria’, which apparently gripped large parts of the female indigenous population in the Arctic during the early contact era. By focusing on the ‘lost’ photomontage Arctic Hysteria IV (1997), I aim to show how Arke’s method of re-appropriating photographic material from colonial archives can be seen as ... -
The Persian Light Verb dādan 'to give': Causation and More
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-09)This paper aims to investigate the light verb constructions (LVCs) formed with the light verb dādan ‘to give’ in Persian by employing the principles of cognitive lexical semantics. It examines the semantic relationships between the heavy verb dādan and its uses as LVCs. The analysis of attested examples reveals that the use of dādan as a light verb (LV) is a function of the semantic structure of its ... -
Beaivváš nieida mánáidgirjji dulkon: Govviduvvon kulturdovddaheamit ja árvvut Marry Áilonieida Somby girjjis Beaivváš nieida
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-15)The thesis examines the children's book Beaivváš nieida by Marry Áilonieida Somby. It is based on an old myth about how the Sun's daughter taught the Sámi people to tame reindeer. An overview of the cultural background is given: myths, stories and yoiks in Sámi society, and Sámi child rearing. The book is analysed using narratological theories - in particular Genette's chronology, Barthes' intertext ... -
Drift Away or Struggle Against the Current - An Attitudinal Investigation of EFL Teachers’ and Prospective Teachers’ Attitudes to SE and NSE
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-15)This study presents a mixed-methods study of prospective and experienced teachers’ attitudes to Standard Englishes (SE) (Received Pronunciation & General American) and Non-standard Englishes (NSE) (Norwegian English & Neutral English). Three prospective teachers and two experienced teachers were interviewed using semi-structured interviews complemented with a Likert scale questionnaire with 20 ... -
Transferencias léxicas del catalán al español: Un estudio sobre el castellano hablado en Cataluña
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-14)Despite the fact that there are many studies concerning the topic of linguistical interferences between two languages coexisting in the same speaker community, there are few studies that analyses to what level certain interferences are accepted from the minority language to the dominant one in comparison with the level of use within the individual speaker of the minority language. In this thesis, ... -
Is the Precariat the New Proletariat? A comparative study of justice in Charles Dickens’s Victorian novel Oliver Twist (1836) and Guy Gunaratne’s contemporary novel In Our Mad and Furious City (2018).
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-14)This thesis, Is the Precariat the New Proletariat? A comparative study of justice in Charles Dickens’s Victorian novel Oliver Twist (1836) and Guy Gunaratne’s contemporary novel In Our Mad and Furious City (2018), argues that the precariat, a term coined by Guy Standing, is a new emerging social class that is represented in modern literature and is a continuation and modern equivalent to the previously ... -
Improving Metacognition Through Utilizing Disability Literature
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-09)This thesis aims to showcase how one can incorporate disability representation in literature in the classroom by teaching Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon. These novels should be utilised in schools to have disability literature represented whilst simultaneously improving pupils’ metacognition. This thesis has analysed and reflected ... -
Degree of multilingual engagement modulates resting state oscillatory activity across the lifespan
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-05-04)Multilingualism has been demonstrated to lead to a more favorable trajectory of neurocognitive aging, yet our understanding of its effect on neurocognition across the lifespan remains limited. We collected resting state EEG recordings from a sample of multilingual individuals across a wide age range. Additionally, we obtained data on participant multilingual language use patterns alongside other ... -
The role of entrenchment and schematisation in the acquisition of rich verbal morphology
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-30)Entrenchment and schematisation are the two most important cognitive processes in language acquisition. In this article, the role of the two processes, operationalised by token and type frequency, in the production of overgeneralised verb forms in Croatian preschool children is investigated using a parental ques tionnaire and computational simulation of language acquisition. The participants ... -
From Diagnostics of the Present to Architectures of Preferable Futures: Precarity, Polarization, and the Need for a Progressive Utopian Populism
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Literacy overrides effects of animacy: A picture-naming study with pre-literate German children and adult speakers of German and Arabic
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-17)Animacy plays a key role for human cognition, which is also reflected in the way humans process language. However, while experiments on sentence processing show reliable effects of animacy on word order and grammatical function assignment, effects of animacy on conjoined noun phrases (e.g., fish and shoe vs. shoe and fish) have yielded inconsistent results. In the present study, we tested the ...
