Det humanistiske fakultet (HF)
Recent Submissions
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Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) for individuals with glaucoma. A health technology assessment
(Research report, 2021)Key messages: This health technology assessment (HTA) summarises and supplements a 2019 Canadian HTA on the effectiveness and safety of micro-invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) versus other treatment options. Further, it ... -
Changing perceptions of rock art: storying prehistoric worlds
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Temporality and changeability are here considered vital characteristics of rock art, expressed through shifting light and moving bodies. Demonstrating deliberate use of non-quantifiable elements such as light is challenging. ... -
Diagnostic uncertainties, ethical tensions, and accounts of role-responsibilities in genetic counseling communication
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Diagnostic uncertainties are intricately associated with genomic testing—especially concerning new technologies such as exome sequencing—with test results being either inconclusive or generating secondary findings or showing ... -
Burial arrangements and conceptions about the afterlife in Old Norse literary sources from the 9th to the 14th century, with reference to the role of birds of prey played therein
(Chapter, 2020)Death and the dead were an important part of life in Viking Age Scandinavia (AD 793–1066). This study gives an overview of different literary sources that depict burial customs, the information they provide concerning ... -
How teachers use prosody to guide students towards an adequate answer
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper focuses on the role prosodic features play in displaying evaluative stance in desk talks and oral exams in Norwegian secondary schools. We explore the extent to which teachers make available, to students, their ... -
"The fear of 'das Volk' - Karl Ove Knausgård's reactions to terrorism"
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L3 acquisition and crosslinguistic influence as co-activation. Response to commentaries on the keynote “Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)I would first of all like to thank the many authors who have provided commentaries on my keynote article ‘Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition’ (Westergaard, 2021a). ... -
Reference and Intuitions
(Chapter, 2021)Our intuitions about reference are often seen to be a crucial source of evidence for theories of reference. This chapter contrasts two views about the relationship between individual competence and facts about reference. ... -
The secret lives of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) at a Norwegian hospital
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper explores how robots that are not designed for being social can still act and be perceived as social and what form this social interaction takes. We look at Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) at a Norwegian hospital ... -
Contemporary Television in/of the Banal Anthropocene
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Climate change occupies a recurring place in news headlines and provides the premise for an array of disaster and extreme weather films; numerous studies in broadcast news, print and online media, fiction film and television ... -
Ulv engasjerer! Erfaringer med skjønnlitteratur i tverrfaglig arbeid på mellomtrinnet
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Kan fortellinger om dyr skape større tverrfaglig engasjement og interesse blant elever på mellomtrinnet? Elever fra tre skoler har gjennomført et litteraturdidaktisk prosjekt om rovdyr. Elevene lyttet til Jacob Breda Bulls ... -
Unboxing Buildings: Engaging with Occupants during Design, Testing and Use
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Current prioritization within EU funding sees technical requirements for sustainable buildings moving technologies closer to people’s everyday lives, thereby increasing the need for interdisciplinary research, and placing ... -
Grammatical Gender: Acquisition, Attrition, and Change
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper discusses grammatical gender in Norwegian by bringing together data from first language acquisition, Norwegian heritage language, and dialect change. In all these contexts, gender is often claimed to be a ... -
Arguments from Need in Natural Resource Debates
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)With regard to any natural resource, we can ask whether we should obtain (more of) it. We may further hold that the answer to this question depends, at least in part, on whether there is a need in our society for the ... -
Policy and politics in energy transitions. A case study on shore power in Oslo
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Their position in transport systems allows ports to play a fundamental role in energy transitions. In increasingly ambitious quests to promote sustainability, ports often look to shore power to reduce emissions. To fill ... -
Playing stories? Narrative-dramatic agency in Disco Elysium (2019) and Astroneer (2019)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Drawing on Janet Murray (1997), Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman (2004), and other previous proposals, this article conceptualizes player agency as the possibility space for “meaningful” choice expressed via player action ... -
Meaning before grammar: A review of ERP experiments on the neurodevelopmental origins of semantic processing
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)According to traditional linguistic theories, the construction of complex meanings relies firmly on syntactic structure-building operations. Recently, however, new models have been proposed in which semantics is viewed as ...
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