• Development of oral language skills in children at familial risk of dyslexia from toddlerhood to school age: Associations, Predictors, and Outcomes 

      Caglar-Ryeng, Ømur (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2020-05-28)
      Previous research has shown that early oral language skills, including vocabulary and grammar, lay the foundation for later reading and writing ability and that children with poor oral language skills at the time of school entry are at heightened risk for later language and reading-related problems. Research focusing on the longitudinal development of lexical and grammatical skills in children born ...
    • The development of the Latin gerund in Rhaeto-Romance 

      Zivojinovic, Jelena (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-09-30)
      <p><i>L gerundie indichea la modalitèdes o la condizions de n'azion. L vegn durà demò te la forma prejenta; tel passà se doura de autra construzions perifrastiches. [...] De spes se pel l transformèr te n complement indiret de temp, de meso, de modo o te na frasa temporèla, ipotetica, e c.i.</i> <p>This is how the Grammar of Fascian Ladin (issued by the Ladin Cultural Institute in Vigo di Fassa) ...
    • Diasporic Indigeneity and Storytelling Across Media: A Case Study of Narratives of Early Twentieth Century Sámi Immigrant Women 

      Jensen, Ellen Marie (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2019-05-15)
      Through a case study of narratives of five Sámi immigrant women from the Norwegian side of Sápmi, the study theorizes migration and subsequent Sámi American subjectivity through the emerging concept of diasporic indigeneity. Familial material culture and artistic and textual production are significant sites of memory and meaning-making; however, intangible cultural continuity foundationally expressed ...
    • Die deutsche Doppelobjektkonstruktion : Eine korpusbasierte Untersuchung zur relativen Abfolge nominaler Akkusativ- und Dativobjekte im geschriebenen Deutsch 

      Røreng, Anita (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2011-06-21)
      Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die deutsche Doppelobjektkonstruktion mit nominal realisierten Akkusativ- und Dativobjekten. Diese Konstruktion zeichnet sich dadurch aus, dass die Objekte in den beiden Abfolgen Dat > Akk und Akk > Dat auftreten können. In dieser Arbeit wird dafür argumentiert, dass die syntaktische Basisabfolge immer Akk > Dat ist und dass zwei Faktoren – Belebtheit und Fokus ...
    • Digital dømmekraft : utprøving og empirisk analyse av et undervisningsopplegg for ungdomstrinnet, inspirert av filosofering med barn-bevegelsen, med formål om å fremme kritisk internettbruk 

      Bjørndal, Kristin Emilie W (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2012-08-23)
      Målsetningen med studien er å utvikle og utprøve et samtalebasert undervisningsopplegg som har til hensikt å utvikle elevers digitale dømmekraft i forhold til internettbruk, ved hjelp av filosofi som metode i skolen. Hensikten er ikke å kartlegge effekten av undervisningsopplegget, men å skape innsikt i lærerens didaktiske muligheter og utfordringer ved å anvende det samtalebaserte undervisningsopplegget. ...
    • Discovering gender and inflection. A view from Icelandic 

      Björnsdottir, Sigridur Mjoll (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-09-20)
      <p>In this dissertation, I investigate the nature of generalizations in grammatical gender and inflectional morphology from a learning perspective. Cross-linguistic differences in children’s learning trajectories have been at the forefront of research on the acquisition of grammatical gender. Transparency has been argued to be predictive of children’s behavior in gender acquisition (Slobin, 1977). ...
    • Diskursens egenvekt i konstruksjonen av det rurale : om utviklingen av norsk distriktspolitikk. 

      Cruickshank, Jørn (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2009-04-23)
      Det er vanlig å forstå skjebnen til de norske utkantene som resultat av en åpen politisk kamp. I avhandlingen konkluderes det isteden med at det siden 1970-tallet er blitt utviklet en særnorsk tenkemåte som vedlikeholder ønsket om å bevare et spredt bosettingsmønster. Denne tenkemåten påvirker utkantene i kraft av seg selv. Desentralisering og økonomisk vekst er her ikke bare forstått som motsetninger, ...
    • Distinction but not separation. Edward Abbey’s conceptualization of nature 

      Bigell, Werner (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2007-11-21)
      Edward Abbey (1927-1989) har blitt en av de mest kjente og kontroversielle amerikanske forfattere i feltet ”nature writing.” Han blir ansett som en del av den radikale miljøbevegelsen i USA, og det blir ofte hevdet at naturbegrepet hans er basert på Arne Næss sin ”dypøkologi” som er et program for å re-integrere mennesket i naturen. I en analyse av Abbeys arbeid derimot viser det seg at det mest ...
    • The distribution of main and embedded structures: V2 and non-V2 orders in North Germanic 

      Westendorp, Maud (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-03-30)
      North Germanic has Verb Second (V2) word order in main but not embedded clauses. Although as a first approximation V2 is a phenomenon characteristic of root clauses, it has long been known that it occurs also in a restricted set of embedded clauses in many, if not all, of the North Germanic languages. Moreover, a wide variety of Norwegian dialects allow deviations from the standard V2 word order in ...
    • Ditransitive structures in Croatian adult and child language: the role of animacy and givenness 

      Velnic, Marta (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2018-02-22)
      This dissertation explores the effects that a semantic factor, animacy, and a pragmatic factor, givenness, have on the relative ordering of the two objects (IO-DO vs. DO-IO) in Croatian ditransitive structures. While the effects of animacy are explored only at a global level (object ordering), the effects of givenness are explored also in the choice of referring expressions. The effect that these ...
    • Does team management matter? : a study of impacts on job satisfaction and organizational commitment in mental hospital departments 

      Skudal, Kjersti Eeg (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2009-08-28)
      Avhandlingen undersøker team ledelse i psykiatriske sykehusavdelinger. Avdelingsledelse i norske sykehus har vært et omstridt tema de siste tiårene. Det tidligere regionssykehuset i Tromsø (RiTø nå UNN) introduserte teamledelse på avdelingsnivå i 1988, noe som representerte et brudd med hvordan avdelingsledelse hadde blitt praktisert i sykehus frem til da. Selv om praktikere og offentlige ...
    • Drilling oil into Arctic minds? State security, industry consensus and local contestation 

      Kristoffersen, Berit (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2014-12-12)
      The thesis’ title Drilling Oil into Arctic Minds? points to the central role of geographical imaginaries in state and industry efforts to push oil production northward, and the extent to which local communities and civil society respond to these imaginaries. Critically examining how imaginaries describe and legitimize opportunities for future oil and gas extraction and expose scenarios of economic ...
    • Early Modern Knowledge about the Sámi: A History of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1673) and its Adaptations 

      Klein, Andreas (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-01-08)
      Even though Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1673) is a frequently employed source in historical studies on the Sámi people of Fennoscandia, the book’s history and the rich reception it aroused early on has never been studied in detail. Written in Uppsala, it was published in Latin for an international learned readership. One of the main intentions behind the work was to counter rumours about the ...
    • Economic Restructuring, Matriliny and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation : Cases from the Suhum/Kraboa-Coaltar District of Ghana 

      Oware, Percy Otwerefoo (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2012-01-20)
      Many debt-ridden sub-Saharan African countries, including Ghana, adopted the International Monetary Fund’s and the World Bank’s neoliberal market-based structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) to fine-tune their economies in the early 1980s. The policy aim was to restructure production capacities in order to improve trade, improve growth and improve debt-servicing capabilities, as well as foster an ...
    • Education for Social Sustainability. Meaning Making of Belonging in Diverse Early Childhood Settings 

      Boldermo, Sidsel (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2020-12-18)
      This study examines how early childhood education for social sustainability can be understood through children with migrant backgrounds’ meaning making of belonging in kindergarten. ‘Belonging’ is conceptualised as relationally negotiated and practised, as well as an individual experiential state, and the study’s epistemological and ontological premise is situated within social constructionism and ...
    • Effects of learning contexts on knowledge of verbs : lexical and inflectional knowledge of verbs among pupils learning Finnish in northern Norway 

      Niiranen, Leena (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2009-02-13)
      The aim of the study was to find out how input and interaction influence language learning. Two groups of students learning Finnish as a second language in Norway were compared in the study: 5 simultaneous bilinguals in Norwegian and Finnish (BL-group), and 5 Norwegian students learning Finnish in a traditional language class (L2-group). The knowledge of Finnish verbs was investigated using different ...
    • Ei byhistorie om Narvik 1902-1950. Eit refleksjonstillegg. 

      Aas, Steinar (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2007-04-13)
      Til grunn for disputasen ligg boka ”Byen, banen og bolaget. Narviks historie, bind 1 1902-1950”, som var det eine bindet av eit to-binds historieverk som kom ut i samband med Narvik kommune sitt 100-årsjubileum i 2001, og manuskriptet ”Ei byhistorie om Narvik 1902-1950 – eit refleksjonstillegg”. Byhistoria om Narvik tar for seg oppkomsten av byen, og dei første femti åra av byens liv med fokus ...
    • Eie eller leie, valg eller tvang? Samiske bygsler i Vaapste og Raane 1690 – 1800: Samisk handlingsrom i kongemaktenes grenseland 

      Hermanstrand, Håkon (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-06-18)
      Avhandlinga tar for seg samiske «Böxel-land» i Vaapste og Raane 1690 – 1800. I lappekodisillen brukes begrepet «Böxel-land» som en norsk parallell til de svenske «Skatte-Land». «Böxel», eller bygsel, er et norsk system for leie av jordbruksland, og avhandlinga undersøker hvordan de samiske bygslene kan forstås i og utafor en samisk kontekst. Et vesentlig spørsmål er om de samiske bygslene virkelig ...
    • Electronically mediated health-communication : uses of text-based media 

      Johnsen, Jan-Are Kolset (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2008-04)
      This project has focused on why and how people are using the Internet for healthissues. The studies involve collection of descriptive survey data aimed at determining the characteristics of the participants, what characterizes the use of online discussion forums for mental health, and the communication patterns of these forums. Based on these data the objective has been to establish an understanding ...
    • En analyse av Knut Hamsuns romaner Pan, Markens Grøde og Landstrykere med utgangspunkt i kronotopbegrepet 

      Nesby, Linda (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2009-06-17)
      Siktemålet med avhandlingen har vært å presentere nylesninger av Hamsuns tre romaner Pan (1894), Markens Grøde (1917) og Landstrykere (1927) med utgangpunkt i Mikhail Bakhtins kronotopbegrep. Sentralt innenfor alle tre romanene stod en dominerende naturskildring med røtter i idyllbegrepet, slik Mikhail Bakhtin fremla det i essayet Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel. En hypotese som ble ...