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Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy: Identity and the Pastoral Dream
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)Dette prosjektet tar for seg Cormac McCarthys Border Trilogy. Fokuset kommer til å være på karakterenes identitet og hvordan den er knyttet til deres pastorale drøm. Oppgaven vil utforske hvordan degradering av karakterens ... -
Counterfactual Present Perfects
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Creating a Peeping Tom: Pornography and Visuality in Lars Ramslie's Fatso
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Taking Fatso (2003) as an example, this article explores how cultural emphasis on the visual influences the thematics and aesthetics of the contemporary novel. Theories of masculinity and the gaze inform this critical ... -
Criticism of Society and Materialism in Mary De Morgan´s Fairy Tales “Siegfrid and Handa” and “The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde”
(Bachelor thesis, 2018)Denne bacheloravhandlingen vil dekke Mary De Morgans kritikk av samfunn og materialisme i hennes eventyr "Siegfrid and Handa" og "The Necklace of Prinsess Fiorimonde." Mary De Morgan var en britisk forfatter som totalt ga ... -
Critiqueing Society and Disappearing Logic Down the Rabbit Hole
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)The novel Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland was a revolutionary novel at the time of its release as it introduced a brand-new way of writing children’s novels. Several attempts have been made to understand the novel, and ... -
A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across five signed languages
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Do signers of different signed languages establish and maintain reference the same way? Here we compare how signers of five Western deaf signed languages coordinate fully conventionalized forms with more richly improvised ... -
Cross-linguistic Influence in Child L3 English: An Empirical Study on Russian-German Heritage Bilinguals
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Aims and objectives: This empirical study investigates variables affecting crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in child third language (L3) acquisition. We examine whether structural or typological similarity leads to CLI ... -
Cross-linguistic similarities and differences in bilingual acquisition and attrition: Possessives and double definiteness in Norwegian heritage language
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This study investigates possessives and modified definite DPs in a corpus of heritage Norwegian spoken in the US. Both constructions involve variation in Norwegian – two word orders for possessives (pre- and postnominal) ... -
Cross-linguistic variation and second language acquisition of human locomotion lexicalization patterns in French and Norwegian
(Master thesis, 2020)Cross-linguistic variation is incredibly prevalent and has led to various questions regarding human language and cognition. Such variation predominantly reflects differences in lexicalization strategies across languages, ... -
Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition across linguistic modules
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In this study, we investigated crosslinguistic influence (CLI) at developmental stages of third language (L3) acquisition of English by Russian–Norwegian children (N = 31). We tested seven linguistic properties within three ... -
Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Evidence from artificial language learning
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study investigates the role of lexical vs structural similarity in L3 acquisition. We designed a mini-artificial language learning task where the novel L3 was lexically based on Norwegian but included a property that ... -
Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of a third language: The Linguistic Proximity Model
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Aims and Objectives: The main goal of the present study is to investigate effects of crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition by simultaneous bilinguals. We address the following research questions: Do both ... -
Crumpets or Cakes? The Translation of Culture-specific Items in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)I denne oppgåva har eg sett på oversettinga av kulturelle aspekt i Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone av J.K. Rowling, oversatt til norsk av Torstein Bugge Høverstad. Oversettingane har blitt analyserte ved hjelp av ... -
A Cry for “Help”? How Crisis Negotiators Overcome Suicidal People's Resistance to Offers of Assistance
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper explores how police negotiators offer “help” to suicidal persons in crisis. The phrase “a cry for help” is long associated with suicide ideation, and “help” is a key offer made in crisis situations. However, we ... -
The cultural adaptation of quantity judgment tasks in Ghanaian English and Akan
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The phenomenon of mass and countability is multifaceted and has been controversially discussed in many disciplines. For linguistics, differences in the morphosyntactic marking of the distinction cross-linguistically, and ... -
Cultural context and masculinity in The Office UK and The Office US : a comparative analysis
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Cultural Homelessness Shown Through Music: Cultural Diversity and the Blending of Cultures in the Soundtrack of Crazy Rich Asians
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)Hollywood filmen Crazy Rich Asians (2018) er en filmatisert adaptasjon av novellen ved samme tittel (2013), skrevet av Kevin Kwan. Denne oppgaven tar for seg en analyse av hvordan musikken som er presentert i Hollywood ... -
Cultural transmission and evolution of melodic structures in multi-generational signaling games
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)It has been proposed that languages evolve by adapting to the perceptual and cognitive constraints of the human brain, developing, in the course of cultural transmission, structural regularities that maximize or optimize ... -
Culture in English Language Teaching: A curricular evaluation of English textbooks for foreign language learners
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)A critical assessment of the current systematical planning and an in-depth review of the teaching materials efficiently improve fine educational materials to the benefit of developed learning and teaching contexts. In some ... -
Culture-specific items in Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder by Jo Nesbø
(Bachelor thesis, 2019)Denne oppgaven ser på oversettelsen av Jo Nesbøs Doktor Proktors prompepulver hvorav fokuset er på kultur-spesifikke elementer. Gideon Tourys metodologi for deskriptive oversettingsstudier utgjør rammeverket for oppgaven. ...