Browsing Det humanistiske fakultet (HF) by Title
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Inventing Style: Compositional Techniques in Ligeti’s Musica Ricercata
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Denne oppgaven utforskar verket Musica Ricercata for solopiano av den ungarske komponisten György Ligeti, skrive i 1951-1953. Verket var skrive tidleg i komponistens karriere, og på den tida da hans eksperimentelle stil ... -
Inversjon og akkomodering: Om V2-regelen og inngruppetilhørighet
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)I denne oppgaven ønsker jeg å se på avvik fra V2-regelen hos andrespråksinnlærere av norsk. Dette er i aller høyeste grad en produktiv regel i det norske språket, men det ser ut til at andrespråksinnlærere sliter med å ... -
Investigating English in multilingual contexts online: Identity construction in geotagged Instagram data.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Tourism discourse, referring to communication in tourism as global industry, contributes to the creation of tourist spaces, where space is a social and affective construct as opposed to place as a geographical one. Tourists ... -
Investigating Morphological Decomposition of Established and Novel Compound Nouns in L1 English Speakers and Norwegian L2 English Speakers - A masked Lexical Decision Task study
(Master thesis, 2019)Abstract Through a masked Lexical Decision Task experiment, the current thesis finds evidence for a sublexical morphological decomposition of established orthographically contiguous compound nouns (such as |toothbrush|) ... -
Investigating potential L3 cognate facilitation effects on L2 - A study of Spanish-English cognates in L1 speakers of Norwegian
(Master thesis, 2018)This study investigates the potential cognate facilitation effect from a third language (L3) onto a second language (L2). More specifically, it investigates whether L3 Spanish participants have a cognate facilitation effect ... -
Investigating the experiences and perceptions about in-depth studies in English and its curriculum
(Master thesis, 2017)In-depth studies in English is an optional subject at lower secondary school, which according to its curriculum should facilitate further specialization in English. Despite this, earlier reports have shown that teachers ... -
Investigating the Links Between Cultural Values and Belief in Conspiracy Theories: the Key Roles of Collectivism and Masculinity
(Journal article, 2021)Research suggests that belief in conspiracy theories (CT) stems from basic psychological mechanisms and is linked to other belief systems (e.g., religious beliefs). While previous research has extensively examined individual ... -
Investigating the universality of adjunct islands through formal acceptability experiments - A comparative study of English and Norwegian
(Master thesis, 2018)Adjunct islands (i.e., extraction from adjoined clauses) are considered to be islands for movement across languages, and data from English generally serve as good examples of this constraint. Norwegian might provide an ... -
Investigating variation in island effects: A case study of Norwegian extraction
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)We present a series of large-scale formal acceptability judgment studies that explored Norwegian island phenomena in order to follow up on previous observations that speakers of Mainland Scandinavian languages like Norwegian ... -
Investigation of a Drum Controlled Cross-Adaptive Audio Effect for Live Performance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Electronic music often uses dynamic and synchronized digital audio effects that cannot easily be recreated in live performances. Cross-adaptive effects provide a simple solution to such problems since they can use multiple ... -
Investigation of the Philosophical Background in the Process of Documenting and Archiving Dances by Hungarian and Ethiopian Scholars as a Means of Facilitating Intercultural Dialogue
(Master thesis, 2016)This dissertation investigates the philosophical background in the process of documenting and archiving dances by Hungarian and Ethiopian scholars as a means of facilitating intercultural Dialogue. By doing so, the ... -
Invisible authors: The authorial personae of Charlotte Brontë and Mary Ann Evans
(Master thesis, 2017)This master’s thesis centers on the idea of authorship by looking at anonymous publishing in nineteenth – century England, focusing on the authorial persona of Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot. The aim is to reveal ... -
Is Beauty in the Hand of the Writer? Influences of Aesthetic Preferences through Script Directions, Cultural, and Neurological Factors: A Literature Review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Human experience surrounding the appreciation of beauty is not static. Many factors such as script direction and cultural differences directly impact whether, how and why we consider images beautiful. In an earlier study, ... -
Is Bilinguals' Color Perception Modulated by Their Active Language? The Case of Lithuanians in Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)Previous research has shown that having a different number of basic color terms across languages modulates speakers’ color perception. Speakers of languages that have two labels for two color tones (e.g., sinyj and goluboj ... -
Is it impolite, or is it just Norwegian? A study of email etiquette in staff-student correspondence.
(Master thesis, 2023)Målet for dette forskningsprosjektet var, først of fremst, å undersøke hvorvidt hvordan det å skrive eposter på engelsk i Norge var av noen betydning og, i så fall, for hvem. Problemstillingen for dette prosjektet er ... -
Is knowing how a natural kind?
(Chapter, 2023)Many philosophers think propositional attitudes like beliefs, desires, and states of knowledge that can only be properly attributed to language-using creatures and that explaining behaviour in terms of them is answerable ... -
Is local always best? Social acceptance of small hydropower projects in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Small-scale development of renewable energy has been identified as one possible solution to meet future energy needs and is well aligned with the general European trend towards further development of community energy ... -
Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The need to better balance the promotion of scientific and technological innovation with risk management for consumer protection has inspired several recent reforms attempting to make regulations more flexible and adaptive. ... -
Is there any linguistic value in letting Norwegian toddlers watch TV series in English?
(Bachelor thesis, 2018)Basert på teoretiske undersøkelser, og noen interessange eksperimentelle observasjoner, vil jeg argumentere for at det finnes språklig verdi i å la barn i ung barnehagealder se på TV-sereier på engelsk, så lenge bestemte ...