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The Northern Russian pragmatic particle dak in the dialect of Varzuga (Kola Peninsula). An information structuring device in informal spontaneous speech
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2006-04-07)
The Northern Russian pragmatic particle dak presents a good case of how particles are used to structure information in informal language. It exemplifies that connectives can mark relations to concepts lacking a concrete linguistic form.
The research presented here is based on a sound corpus of the dialect of Varzuga, an old Russian Pomor settlement on the White Sea coast. For the first time, ...
Bassejoga čáhci. Gáldut nuortasámiid eamioskkoldaga birra álgoálbmotmetodologiijaid olis
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2006-01-19)
<p>This book is based on doctoral dissertation defended in January 2006 at
the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Tromsø (Norway). The
book examines the sources for the study of the indigenous religion of
the Eastern Sami in the period from the 16th to the 20th century. Using
proposed elements of indigenous methodologies as a point of departure,
the study is divided into three parts and ...
Rom for rettferdighet. Liberale utfordringer i grenselandet mellom basisstruktur og bakgrunnskultur.
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2006-01-20)
Avhandlingen Rom for rettferdighet – Liberale utfordringer i grenseland mellom basisstruktur og bakgrunnskultur, er en diskusjon av skillet mellom det politiske og det ikke–politiske som ligger til grunn for John Rawls’ politiske liberalisme. Hovedspørsmålet er om Rawls sin distinksjon mellom det politiske og det ikke-politiske skaper problemer for den samfunnsmessige evnen til å virkeliggjøre de ...
Transition from authoritarian rule and democratic consolidation: The electoral nexus. An ecological study of the Spanish general elections 1977-2000
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2006-09-23)
The research questions posed in the dissertation are related to our understanding of the role played by elections during processes of transition from authoritarianism and the subsequent consolidation of democratic rule. In this, the lessons drawn from the Spanish experience after the demise of the Franco dictatorship in 1975 are assessed. Various researchers have pointed to the fact that the political ...
Negotiating gender and sexuality in the HIV/AIDS discourse in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Contradictions and paradoxes.
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2006-11-28)
The AIDS epidemic has been recognized as the most pressing national health problem in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Zenebe argues that HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Ethiopia are not producing expected results because they are not based on understanding the distinctive characteristics of the people’s sexual cultures shaped by relations of power, by history, and by differentiated traditions within the ...
Resultatenhetsmodellen i kommunal tjenesteproduksjon : instrument, symbol eller maktmiddel?
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2006)
Temaet for denne avhandlinga er bruk av resultatenheter i kommunal tjenesteproduksjon.
Ordninga har på kort tid oppnådd betydelig popularitet og er i ferd med å spre seg til
kommuner over hele landet. Ifølge en NIBR-undersøkelse, basert på Kommunal- og
regionaldepartementets organisasjonsdatabase, kan så mange som 43% av norske kommuner
ha tatt resultatenhetsmodellen i bruk, i kombinasjon med ...
Verbal prepositions in Norwegian. Paths, places and possession
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2006-05-30)
Prepositions belong to a class of small words whose meaning is very difficult to pinpoint once and for all; they are known to change interpretation dependent on the various contexts which they can appear in. This general flexibility which characterizes members of the category P makes them hard to classify, and forms the basis for the work leading up to the dissertation "Verbal Prepositions in ...
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. ...
Depression and cognitive vulnerability
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2006-10-13)
The overall aim of the present study was to investigate how cognitive processing of emotionally valenced information may be a vulnerability factor to depression, and to develop a cognitive model of recurrent depression. Several more specific aims were formulated and investigated. To reach the aims of the study, an extensive theoretical review of the research literature on cognitive processes of ...
Belief, truth, and the enigma of error.
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2006-10-13)
The thesis discusses problems related to the American Philosopher Donald Davidson’s (1917-2003) views upon beliefs, truth and error. Underlying questions are; what are the basic conditions for knowledge? What are the prerequisites for understanding other human beings? What are the conditions for emergence of beliefs that can be true or false? The thesis focuses on the role that our inherited ...