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Analogue Invention: S. and House of Leaves as Integrated Texts
(Master thesis, 2021)Since the turn of the millennium there has been an emergence of novels that incorporate unorthodox page design as part of their narrative toolbox, some of which have acquired a cult following that still comb through their ... -
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 ... -
Object Labeling and Categorization: Noun Acquisition in Children
(Master thesis, 2021)There are many studies that point to children learning and producing nouns earlier than words in other categories because of the nature of language directed at infants by those around them. Children pay attention to things ... -
Fear and Loathing in the Cultural Hegemony: An Analysis of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream from the perspective of Antonio Gramsci’s theory on cultural hegemony.
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis will analyze Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream through the lens of Antonio Gramsci’s theory on cultural hegemony. More specifically, this ... -
The Efficacy of Educational Apps in Second Language Learning
(Master thesis, 2021)Målet med denne oversiktsartikkelen er å undersøke effektiviteten av bruken av apper i andrespråkslæring, spesielt engelsk som andrespråk. Teoretisk bakgrunn om hvordan barn lærer, og nøyaktig hvordan de lærer et andrespråk ... -
Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article analyses the reception of memoirs that position themselves as counter-narratives to state-sanctioned Zimbabwean storytelling. It asks whether these texts play the subversive role that one might expect from ... -
The truth about fake news? - A comparative study of perceptions of the term fake news
(Master thesis, 2021)This study investigates the various meanings and the perceived impact of the contentious buzzword fake news in three different demographics: Norwegians in Norway, Americans in the U.S. and Americans abroad. The term fake ... -
Introduction to the special issue on Heritage languages & Bilingualism
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The Tale of Two Lexicons: Decomposing Complexity across a Distributed Lexicon
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The notion of complexity is evasive and often left to intuition, yet it is often invoked when studying heritage language grammars. In this article, we propose a first pass at decomposing the notion of complexity into smaller ... -
Electrischer Prometheus. Umrisse einer Dritten Kultur im interdisziplinären Zusammenspiel zwischen Literatur und Naturwissenschaft
(Book, 2021)In diesem Open-Access-band geht es um die Thematisierung des Verhältnisses zwischen den gegenwärtig getrennten „Zwei Kulturen“ und Umrisse ihrer neuen Synthese in Richtung auf eine zeitgenössische, auf Interdisziplinarität ... -
Chomsky's "Galilean" Explanatory Style
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Synoptic introduction
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Pronominal right-dislocation in Norwegian
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The goal of the paper is to propose a holistic analysis of the discourse properties and the interpretational effects of pronominal right-dislocation in Norwegian. Previous research has suggested that this is a topic ... -
Apostrofere den levende. Den pårørendes vitnemål om autisme i Olaug Nilssens Tung tids tale
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Olaug Nilssen’s Tung tids tale (2017) is a novel about speaking to and for the disabled and disarticulate child in the role as mother and caregiver. Olaug, the narrator, tells the story of her son Daniel’s regressive autism ... -
Biographical Sketch
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Phonological vs. natural gender cues in the acquisition of German by simultaneous and sequential bilinguals (German–Russian)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We investigate German–Russian bilingual children's sensitivity to formal and semantic cues when assigning gender to nouns in German. Across languages, young children have been shown to primarily rely on phonological cues, ... -
Toxicity, Speculation, and Rights: Political Imagination in Mixmedia, Literary, and Cinematic Futurescapes
(Chapter, 2020)This chapter explores the relationship between imagination and emancipation, or biosocial harm between rights and futurism in transmodal speculation across media and fields. Specifically, it turns to transmodal speculative ... -
Cartographic Storytelling, Migration, and Reception Environments
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article focuses on mapping and spatial thinking in migrant storytelling and knowledge-making across diverse border infrastructures. Set against the carceral regimes' investment in migration research, schooling, and ... -
French as a third language in Norway: The influence of the prior languages in the acquisition of word order
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The present study investigated the acquisition of verb movement in L3 French by L1 speakers of Norwegian with English as their L2. To investigate the impact of previously learned languages in L3 acquisition, we looked at ...
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