• The battle of hearts and minds : an analysis of the Iraq War discourse in politics and newspapers 

      Høyer, Andreas Beddari (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2008-11-15)
      The most controversial and divisive political issue in Britain in the last decade was the decision to go to war in Iraq. The legitimisation and justification for making this decision was argued through a carefully considered discourse constructed by Prime Minister Tony Blair and his associates. A key role in mediating and manifesting the discourse of Blair was played out by the media. If Blair was ...
    • Bi-multilingual Language Engagement Shapes the Brain’s Functional Connectivity: An Aging Study on Resting State Brain Rhythms Correlated to Executive Functions 

      Berglund, Gaute (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-12)
      Bi-multilingualism have been argued to help maintain cognitive functioning in aging through increased resilience to cognitive decline, known as cognitive reserves (CR). Researchers have argued that bi-multilingualism imposes unique cognitive demands that can change the brain’s structural and functional integrity. In order to investigate the effects of multilingual engagement on cognition, ...
    • Bilingual vocabulary acquisition A corpus-based case study 

      Varhaug, Esther (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-16)
      A bilingual learning two languages from birth seems to follow the same developmental trajectory as that of a monolingual. However, within vocabulary acquisition persistent and significant differences have been found between bilingual and monolinguals when the languages of bilinguals are compared separately to monolinguals’ level. The domain specific nature of a bilingual’s vocabularies is an important ...
    • The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition: Norwegian L1 speakers’ knowledge of syntax and morphology in English L2 

      Jensen, Isabel Nadine (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-14)
      In this master’s thesis, we test the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova 2006; 2008; 2013) in L2 acquisition of English by Norwegian speakers. According to this hypothesis, functional morphology is the bottleneck of L2 acquisition, i.e. the most challenging part for L2 learners to acquire. We test two constructions that do not match in English and Norwegian: subject-verb agreement and verb movement. ...
    • Bowing out in style. A critical discourse analysis of Margaret Thatcher's and Tony Blair's farewell addresses 

      Andreassen, Vegar (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2007-06-13)
      This thesis is an analysis of Margaret Thatcher's and Tony Blair's last addresses as British Prime Ministers as well as the reception these farewell speeches got in a selection of five British national newspaper editorials. My hypothesis is that Thatcher and Blair try to cement their legacies through the language they use and the power of definition – and that the two speeches mirror each other given ...
    • Bruken av lokativ 2 ved hankjønnsord i russisk 

      Melsbøe, Anita (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-03-22)
      I denne oppgaven har jeg sett på bruken av lokativ 2 ved hankjønnsord i russisk. Jeg har tatt utgangspunkt i 151 ord som faglitteraturen hevder får lokativ 2 og søkt på dem i Det russiske nasjonalkorpus for å finne ut hvilke som har obligatorisk, og hvilke som har fakultativ lokativ 2. På denne måten ønsket jeg også å finne ut om faktisk språkbruk stemmer overens med det som står i grammatikkene og ...
    • Causativisation and Applicativisation with the Grammaticalised Verb De in Akan 

      Appiah, Esther Dansoa (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-16)
      The thesis investigates a grammaticalised verb de, reanalysed as a semi/functional element which is involved in valency changing operations such as causativisation and applicativisation in Akan. The causative and applicative use of the morpheme points to a polysemous syncretism (Franco 2019) in the language. De is realised as three different heads with different functions: as a causer, an ...
    • Change and Variation in the Trondheim Dialect 

      Størdal, Mikko (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-16)
      This thesis explores the status and production of four characteristics traditionally observed in the Trondheim dialect as ongoing trends observed in the dialect suggests that the dialect is undergoing a process of levelling with Standard Eastern Norwegian. The characteristics investigated are wh-words, diphthongs, apocope, and palatalisation. The data was collected by use of an experiment, and finally ...
    • Child second language acquisition without communication 

      Kalstad, Pål Hunstad (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-08-30)
      This thesis investigates child second language acquisition without communication. This is a case study of a Norwegian four-year-old girl who has acquired English only by watching television. It is interesting to investigate language acquisition through television as language is argued to be a social phenomenon. It is predicted that the child, Lucy, will have no problems acquiring English structures ...
    • Code mixing in early bilingual acquisition: dominance, language modes, and discourse strategies. A case study of bilingual acquisition of Norwegian and English 

      Walla, Dianna (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-05-15)
      One of the main questions that arises in cases where children code switch or code mix often in their early production is whether mixing can be considered a sign of confusion, of competency, or of neither. Earlier research on language mixing in bilingual first language acquisition often pointed to the idea of a “unitary language system,” with code mixing being considered a sign of confusion. More ...
    • Code-Switching in Multilinguals: A Narrative Elicitation Study with L1 Arabic, L2 English, L3 Norwegian Speakers. The Role of Cognates, Dominance and Typological proximity 

      Holst, Sam (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-17)
      This study aims to investigate the phenomenon of code-switching in multilingual. Participants in this study speak Arabic as L1, English as L2, and Norwegian as L3. The focus will mainly be on two main patterns in code-switching: The Insertion of cognates and the Direction of the cross-linguistic influence. More specifically, we will investigate if the co-activation effect on cognates would increase ...
    • Cognitive metaphor in the West and the East : A comparison of metaphors in the speeches of Barack Obama and Wen Jiabao 

      Wong, Wai Yee Christine (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-11-15)
      The thesis discusses the metaphors used in the speeches of US President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. The framework is Cognitive Metaphor Theory, which introduces the idea that cognitive metaphors are conceptualizations or patterns of thought, not lingusitic phenomena, although these metaphors give rise to linguistic metaphors. The metaphorical mapping, the relations between conceptual ...
    • Collocations in Farsi L2 Learners of English. The role of proficiency and L1 language transfer 

      Hatami, Sara (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-11-15)
      The goal of learning collocations is to be able to put a word to actual and appropriate use. To use a word appropriately, it is not enough to know just the meaning of a word; we need to pay attention to the immediate context that it is used in. Both lexical and grammatical patterns are important to ensure that this happens. Collocations enable EFL learners to know more about language chunks used ...
    • Comment le schwa et la consonne de liaison vacillent et s'évanouissent dans le vaudois : un traitement de la variation 

      Andreassen, Helene N. (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2003)
      La variation linguistique est indissociable de toute langue naturelle, et les facteurs qui la conditionnent doivent recevoir une explication de la part du linguiste. L’instabilité superficielle du schwa et de la consonne de liaison constitue l’une des caractéristiques les plus saillantes du français, et dans ce mémoire, nous tenterons de dégager la régularité dans leur variation ainsi que la ...
    • A Comparative Study of L1 Norwegian and L1 Chinese Learners’ Acquisition of L2 English Subject-verb Agreement and Word Order 

      Tong, Jia (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-11-01)
      Nowadays, English has been widely used by L2 language learners. With respect to L1 Chinese and L1Norwegian speakers in the process of English learning, both groups are prone to a range of errors, especially in subject-verb agreement and word order. This thesis aims at exploring the L1 Chinese and L1Norwegian English learning difficulties in subject-verb agreement and word order and makes a comparison ...
    • Conjugación y uso de los tiempos básicos del español en verbos regulares: un análisis de errores. 

      Hovland, Ina Renathe (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-03-30)
      Bøyning av verbene i spansk kan være svært utfordrende for elever med norsk som morsmål. Denne oppgaven bruker feilanalysemetodikken med et didaktisk perspektiv til å vise hvordan elever med norsk som morsmål kan lære å bøye de regelrette verbene i de basiske verbtidene til det spanske språket. Ved å se på resultater fra tre prøver som elever fra en videregående skole har gjennomført, blir vi kjent ...
    • Consonant lenition in Danish 

      Hart, Margot Sue (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-05)
      In this thesis, I will account for coda lenition processes in Danish using local conjunction within optimality theory. These processes include deaspiration, stops becoming approximant and vocalization in syllable-final position. No such process occurs syllable-initially or intervocalically, nor does the following onset have any effect. I will show that these coda conditions, as well as lenition-caused ...
    • Cross-linguistic influence in adult multilingualism The acquisition of L3 Norwegian morphosyntax by L1 Spanish - L2 English speakers 

      Espindola, Augusto (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-15)
      The current thesis investigated the topic of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) at three different developmental stages of adult third language (L3) acquisition of Norwegian by sequential first language (L1) Spanish – second language (L2) English speakers (n = 18). Using a mixed methods approach consisting of a grammaticality judgment task and a closed-ended questionnaire on linguistic proximity, ...
    • Cross-linguistic Influence in L3 Acquisition of English by child heritage speakers of Russian in Norway 

      Saraeva, Anna (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-15)
      The present study investigates crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in the acquisition of L3 English by Russian-Norwegian children in attempt to understand how previous knowledge of two typologically distant languages affects the acquisition of the language that shows structural similarities with both languages and what role language dominance plays in this process. The participants were tested through ...
    • Cross-linguistic Influence in L3 Acquisition of English by Persian Heritage Speakers in Norway 

      Abdollahi Dehooei, Farnoosh (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-09-14)
      Aims and objectives: This thesis investigates cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in child third language (L3) acquisition. The main objectives are to find the source of CLI, whether it is L1, L2, or both, and to find out whether CLI occurs on a property-by-property basis or as a wholesale phenomenon. Methodology: Persian-Norwegian heritage bilinguals acquiring L3 English are compared to L2 English ...