Blar i tittel Doktorgradsavhandlinger (HSL-fak)
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Career maturity : contributions to its construct validity
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Category-effects and stimulus characteristics in visual perception
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2006-12-01)This thesis describes a number of experiments that aimed to investigate the role of relatively low-level visual input factors in category-specific effects in object identification and colour perception. In the object recognition experiments, using picture-name or name-picture verification tasks, as well as object-naming tasks, clues to the causal factors contributing to such effects were obtained. ... -
Change and continuity : the bildungsroman in English
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2010-02-22)”Change and Continuity: The Bildungsroman in English.” Begrepet bildungsroman har vært brukt i litteraturvitenskapen i nesten 100 år, men det har hersket voldsom uenighet om hva det betyr, om genren finnes utenfor opphavslandet Tyskland og om den fortsatt skrives i dag. Avhandlingen erstatter mer tradisjonelle genredefinisjoner med The Bildungsroman Index (BRI), som består av 96 typiske trekk. ... -
Christa Wolfs "Was bleibt" : Kontext – Paratext – Text
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2008-06-04)Christa Wolfs "Was bleibt" (i svensk oversettelse 1991 under tittelen "Vad blir kvar") står i sentrum av denne avhandlingen som undersøker dens kontekst, paratekst og tekst. Utgangspunktet for avhandlingen er observasjonen at den så kalte tysk-tyske litteraturstriden – som startet i juni 1990 i de store vesttyske avisene Die Zeit og Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – egentlig ikke handler om teksten, ... -
The Claims of Freedom: Habermas' Deliberative Multiculturalism and the Right to Free Speech
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2017-04-21)The thesis analyzes and discusses Jürgen Habermas’ political philosophy, focusing on his theories of multiculturalism and deliberative democracy. This implies an assesment of strengths and weaknesses in Habermas' theory, and an attempt to overcome the weaknesses through some revisions and reinterpretations. More specifically, I apply Habermas' framework to a particular question to which he himself ... -
Concrete Matters: Towards an Archaeology of Things
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2013-11-01)The thesis is both part of and a critical response to the turn to things or the “new materialisms” developing within the humanities and social sciences during the last two decades. Based on the archaeological exploration of two recently abandoned herring stations in Iceland’s Northwest and their rich assemblages of decaying matter, the thesis seeks to scrutinize the fate of archaeological things ... -
Conflict and order in Svalbard waters
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2008-06-17)This dissertation examines processes that induce conflict and order in the maritime areas adjacent to the Svalbard archipelago, where Norway’s sovereign rights as coastal state are contested. The first process is the ambiguous causal interplay of international politics and international law: After decades of debate, the parties to it remain reluctant to involve disinterested international third ... -
Constraining Operations : A Phase-based Account of Improper Movement and Anaphoric Binding
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2011-09-15)The goal of this dissertation is to offer a novel way of relating locality restrictions on movement and binding dependencies to a common set of syntactic factors. The starting point is the long noted observation that movement operations must apply in a particular order to yield a licit result (Chomsky 1973). The question of how the restrictions on ordering of movement operations might be derived in ... -
Constructing Perfectivity in Russian
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2007-04-16)The thesis deals with one particular way of deriving perfective verbs in Russian, namely, prefixation. Prefixes are interesting not only because they turn imperfective verbs into perfectives, but also because they reveal dependencies between two different types of predicational structure, on the one hand, and the connection of event quantification with the event and argument shape, on the ... -
Content in Nordic Pupil Narratives in Instructed EFL: A Norwegian Perspective
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2009)The thesis focuses on pupil narratives in English, and the narratives are studied with an emphasis on substantial content. The focus is on the first edition of the publicised text. It is important to distinguish between the text and the writer and to clarify what the object of the study is: The pupil’s narrative text is interpreted. Although this does not imply that the writer of the text is ... -
Context and (Co)reference in the syntax and its interfaces
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2013-03-07)It is well known that referentially defective nominals fall into two broad categories: pro-forms whose reference seems structurally constrained (local anaphors, OC pro) and those which are discourse-pragmatically conditioned (logophors, deictic pronouns, indexicals). Nevertheless, a strict binary distinction cannot be maintained because most actually straddle the syntax-discourse divide: e.g. deictic ... -
Conversión de Píritu (1690) de Matías Ruiz Blanco. Una obra misionera en el contexto fronterizo del oriente venezolano (siglo XVII)
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-04-26)This dissertation represents the first monograph on the understudied missionary text Conversión de Píritu (1690) written by the franciscan Matías Ruiz Blanco (1643–1708). The main aim is to present Ruiz Blanco as a cultural translator in his endeavor to convert to Christianity the Cumanagoto people of the Province of Píritu during the last decades of the 17th century. He made visible his efforts to ... -
"Crafting Our Future Together": Urban Diasporic Indigeneity from an Ainu Perspective in Japan
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2020-02-21)This dissertation discusses living experiences and stories of urban Ainu youth, Indigenous people of Japan in the twenty-first century. I have weaved my own experiences as a Tokyo Ainu into the discussion in order to illustrate forms of Ainu cultural revitalization in cities. In the thesis, I ask: What attributes in cities facilitate the process of Ainu cultural revitalization? The dissertation ... -
Crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-06-20)<p>In this dissertation, crosslinguistic influence in third language (L3) acquisition is investigated in three articles that explore how linguistic variables affect the influence of pre-existing grammars. The goal is to contribute to novel insights about the cognitive process of language acquisition. <p>We collected data in offline acceptability judgements tasks. In articles 1 and 2, we tested ... -
Cultural sites, traditional knowledge and participatory mapping : Long-term land use in a Sámi community in coastal Norway
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2013-09-18)Knowledge held by people who have been involved in intimate and direct engagement with their land is often valuable for our understanding of past land use. This study has through an interdisciplinary approach explored the possible benefits of emphasizing local knowledge, local participation and the increasing possibilities within digital media, seen from an archaeological viewpoint. The study areas ... -
Da planleggingen ble politisert : langsiktig planlegging i nordnorske byer 1965-1990
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2008-02) -
Dealing with fear: Managing life-threatening events in different cultural contexts. An empirical study with case design using qualitative interviews and participant observation
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-09-17)<p>Background: Life-threatening events come in various forms, affecting individuals and their societies by evoking fear. Collective dangers such as terrorist attacks, war, conflict, and natural disasters may create societal chaos and suffering. Children in particular appear to be vulnerable as regards dealing with fear from life-threatening events. Although most children and adolescents do not develop ... -
Decomposing Path : The Nanosyntax of Directional Expressions
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2011-10-21)In my thesis, I investigate directional expressions cross-linguistically. I examine the morpho-syntactic structure of expressions of Goal (to the house), Source (from the house), Route (through the house), non-transitional paths (towards the house) and, finally, delimited paths (up to the house). I conclude that all these types of directional expressions are of different syntactic complexity. ... -
Democratic Deliberation in the Context of Deep Pluralism and Mass Democracy. A Case for an Epistemic Idea of Public Reason
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2017-06-19)This doctoral dissertation’s aim is to answer the question of how citizens should talk to each other about matters of public interest in the context of deep pluralism and mass democracy. Specifically, I advocate a strong moral basis of equal respect as a guiding norm in democratic deliberation. This guiding norm entails an epistemic idea of public reason that can make sure that democratic procedure ... -
Demokratiet, Europa og det moderne prosjektet. En diskursteoretisk analyse i spenningsfeltet mellom radikalt demokrati og økonomisk liberalisering
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2008-04)