Browsing Doktorgradsavhandlinger (HSL-fak) by Title

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    • Gerundio no perifrástico. Estudio de corpus orales del español de Mérida, Venezuela 

      Moreno, Arlanda (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2015-03-10)
      This thesis describes the uses of the non–periphrastic gerund in the Spanish of Mérida, Venezuela. A functional analysis of this form has been conducted. It explores mainly the semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics of this verbal form in two oral corpora. I propose that its main interpretation is temporal. To demonstrate this assertion, I explore the Arktionsart of the gerunds and analyze ...

    • Giftermål og etnisitet. Samer, nordmenn og ekteskap i Karlsøy 1770-1900 

      Larsen, Birgit (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2008-01)

    • “Go ealáska, de lea váttis dápmat” : davvisámegiela etnolingvisttalaš ceavzinnávccaid guorahallan guovtti gránnjágielddas Deanus ja Ohcejogas 2000-logu álggus 

      Rasmussen, Torkel (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2013-12-13)
      This sociolinguistic dissertation examines the ethno-linguistic vitality of North Sámi in the two neighbouring municipalities of Deatnu/Tana in Norway and Ohcejohka/Utsjoki in Finland. The Sámi language revitalization manifested itself differently in different areas. My research focuses on how these differences influenced local level revitalization processes. Specifically the research solicited ...

    • Governance by conference? Actors and agendas in Arctic politics 

      Steinveg, Beate (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-02-19)
      The Arctic has become a core national priority for the Arctic states, and the region has attracted the interest of non-Arctic state actors. Since the 1990s, the Arctic has been characterized by cooperative institutions forming a complex picture of transnational collaboration. Increased interest towards the region, catalyzed by geopolitical changes and the impacts of climate change, has also been ...

    • Gressbakkentuftene i Varanger : boliger og sosial struktur rundt 2000 f. Kr. 

      Schanche, Kjersti (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 1994-04)

    • Handel i nord : samiske samfunnsendringer ca. 1550 - ca. 1700 

      Hansen, Lars Ivar (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 1990)
      Siktemålet med denne undersøkelsen er å gjennomføre en særskilt drøfting av sambandet mellom handelssamkvemmet på Nordkalotten og de sosiale, økonomiske og økologiske tilpasnings-strategier og -taktikker som ble anvendt av de lokale samiske samfunnsenhetene (siidaer). Empirisk er drøftingen avgrenset til perioden ca. 1550 - ca. 1700.

    • Healthcare Delivery and Emergency Preparedness on Svalbard: A Study of Norwegian and Russian Practices and Cooperation 

      Wæhler, Turid Austin (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2024-01-26)
      The aim of this thesis is to explore Norwegian and Russian approaches to healthcare delivery and emergency preparedness on Svalbard and to examine potential effects from a closer cooperation. The methods were interdisciplinary. A systematic review was performed to assess studies about health on Svalbard (article 1). Thereafter, a literary analysis explored concepts of health and illness in Norwegian ...

    • Helleristningene i Alta: Estetikken, geologien og figurene 

      Tansem, Karin (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-12-08)
      <p>The dissertation contains an analysis and a re-evaluation of the Alta rock engravings, where the aesthetic qualities of the rocks and the engravings constitute the point of departure. Aesthetics is this context is not conceived of as something connected to beauty or art, but rather defined simply as cognition by sensory perception, the qualities of objects that can be perceived by the senses and ...

    • Her. Et bidrag til stedets filosofi 

      Greve, Anniken (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 1998-01)

    • Heritage and adult L2 acquisition of empty categories in a bidialectal-bilingual context 

      Castro, Tammer (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2016-11-24)
      Despite their high degree of mutual intelligibility, Brazilian Portuguese (henceforth BP) and European Portuguese (henceforth EP) have been argued to differ in many micro-parametric domains, which suggests that speakers with enough exposure to both varieties could potentially acquire them as separate mental systems. The present study makes use of this language pairing to investigate issues raised ...

    • The hidden children of Eve : Sámi poetics guovtti ilmmi gaskkas 

      Jernsletten, Kristin (Kikki) (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2012-02-29)
      In a methodological approach based on Sámi communication modes, the thesis relies solely on Sámi sources in addressing a poetics of the oral as grounds for indigenous methodology.

    • Historiemaleriet i Norge 

      Ljøgodt, Knut (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2016-01-14)
      Avhandlingen Historiemaleriet i Norge omhandler historiemaleri – eller nærmere bestemt historisk-mytologiske fremstillinger – med vekt på norsk kunst fra 1800-tallet, sett i sammenheng med spesielt skandinavisk og generelt vestlig kunsthistorie. Avhandlingen består av ialt fem tekster. Del 1, Introduksjon, gjør rede for avhandlingens tema, omfang og formål og knytter sammen de forskjellige tekstene. ...

    • Homewarding Remoteness: Representations, agency and everyday life in a tundra village (NW Russia) 

      Mankova, Petia (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2018-02-09)
      In remote geographical areas, state power and modernization processes often slow down, become subverted or fail. For the people who live there the everyday life usually brings other worries and concerns. Based on anthropological fieldwork in Krasnoshchelye, a remote tundra village in Murmansk region, the dissertation addresses questions of remoteness. Inspired by the spatial theories of Michel de ...

    • Hopes and Horror - An ethnographic study of a German community in Chile 

      Douglas, Marcela (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2014-02-21)
      The theme of the thesis is an exploration of how an utopian community can develop into totalitarianism, exemplified by a German religious community, formed after World War II, that emigrated to Chile in the early 1960-ies and gradually changed under the impact of political changes in Chile from the 1970-ies until today. The problem is to explore how this development was brought about by the ...

    • Hot emotions in cold landscapes. Towards spatial-emotional methodologies of interest development. Why research on Arctic winter tourism can ill afford to ignore the emotion of interest. 

      Ekeland, Christian (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2016-09-08)
      The dissertation explores tourist encounters with two Arctic winter tourism contexts in Northern Norway. Through three ethnographic fieldworks on the coastal steamer Hurtigruten, and a small peninsula of eastern Finnmark called Ekkerøy, learning experiences are scrutinized. As tourists visit a region they know relatively little about beforehand, how important is the external scaffolding of ...

    • How to Be a Heroic Explorer in a Friendly Arctic: A Chronotopic Approach to Self-Representation in Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions (1921) 

      Gaupseth, Silje (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2017-02-03)
      This dissertation deals with the exploration account The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions (1921), written by Canadian-American anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962). Stefansson’s story is based on his experiences during the Canadian Arctic Expedition, which traversed and mapped stretches of ocean and land in the Canadian Arctic in the years 1913–1918. ...

    • Hva forsvarer Norge? : det norske forsvarets møte med en ny virkelighet 

      Rottem, Svein Vigeland (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2009-03-20)
      I en tid hvor vi ser et fragmentert og sammensatt trusselbilde og hvor vi samtidig er vitne til et mer ”framoverlent” Russland, er det avgjørende å føre en nyansert offentlig debatt om det norske forsvaret sin rolle. Spørsmålet en bør stille seg er: Hva forsvarer Norge? Det norske forsvaret trenger legitimitet i møte med en ny virkelighet. Ambisjonen i avhandlingen er å analysere ulike begrunnelser ...

    • Hva nå, fylkeskommune? En translasjonsteoretisk analyse av regionreformen 

      Vebostad, Åge Jacob (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2013-12-10)
      Temaet for avhandlingen er transformasjonen av det folkevalgte mellomnivået (fylkeskommunene). Det folkevalgte mellomnivået var etter årtusenskiftet i en brytningstid. På fylkesordførerlandsmøtet i 2004 vedtok fylkesordførerene enstemmig at det folkevalgte mellomnivået var modent for reform. Fylkeskommunene skulle omdannes til store regioner. Problemstillingene som søkes belyst er: 1. Hva som ...

    • Hverdagslivsperspektiv i barnevernet? En kvalitativ studie av mødres erfarte hverdagsliv 

      Lorentsen, Anne-Berit (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-06-18)
      Avhandlingens formål er å undersøke hvordan foreldre i barnevernet med kompleks problematikk erfarer sitt hverdagsliv. Mye tyder på at det i senere tid har oppstått et politisk og faglig spenningsfelt i barnevernet med mer vekt på risikoperspektivet for å ivareta barnets beste, fremfor et velferdsorientert fokus på hva som kan støtte og fremme stabilitet i familien. Det er få studier innen ...

    • Hybride heltinner i det litterære Arktis. Dekolonialitet, interseksjonalitet og økokritikk i Nelvana of the Northern Lights (1941 - 1947), White Heat (2011) og Kautokeino, en blodig kniv (2012) 

      Bjerknes, Cathrine (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-11-04)
      The purpose of this dissertation, <i>Hybrid heroines in the literary Arctic</i>, is to bring literary studies to the popular literary Arctic through analyzes of Arctic indigenous cultures and lifeworlds. These lifeworlds have to varying degrees been subject to colonial processes, and both social, historical and natural conditions in addition to gender and ethnicity affect the hybrid protagonists' ...