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    • Reading Comprehension in L2 Italian: Connecting Psycholinguistic Research and Pedagogical Practice 

      Festi, Francesca (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-09-07)
      This dissertation explores reading comprehension abilities with a special focus on language minority bilingual children (LMBC). This population is often found to display lower scores than their monolingual peers and this gap in performance can negatively affect their future educational experience. Our goal was to shed light on the origins of these comprehension difficulties. To do so, we carried out ...
    • Turisme med omsorg for sted: en studie av reiselivs- og stedsutvikling i Lofoten og Ilulissat 

      Cabrera, Astrid Maria (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-08-25)
      Turisme er en av verdens hurtigst voksende næringer og en betydelig drivkraft i lokale endringsprosesser. I Arktis har reiselivet vokst betraktelig de siste ti årene, og i takt med veksten, har også utfordringene blitt flere. Denne avhandlinga går inn i konflikter og paradokser i reiselivs-og stedsutviklinga i Ilulissat på vestkysten av Grønland, og i Lofoten nordvest i Norge. Dette er små lokalsamfunn ...
    • Talking Back to Art Museum Practices: Seeing Public Art Museums in Norway Through the Lens of Institutional Critique, Feminism and Decoloniality 

      Gullickson, Charis Ann (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-08-24)
      The aim of this dissertation is to question art museum practices and the predisposition to regard state-funded art museums in Norway as "neutral" institutions. Neutrality is notoriously difficult to define, one possible definition could be “not being engaged, or decided, on either side of an issue” (Evans et al. 2020, 19). The question surrounding neutrality in museums is a complex one. Museum ...
    • Aspect and Meaning in the Russian Future Tense: Corpus and Experimental Investigations 

      Kosheleva, Daria (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-06-26)
      This dissertation is a study of the Russian future tense within the framework of cognitive linguistics. In this dissertation I focus on the distribution of the perfective and imperfective future forms, their future and non-future meanings, and the use of the future tense verb forms by both native and non-native speakers. In the Russian tense-aspect system, it is reasonable to operate with markedness ...
    • What Makes us Act? On the Potentials of Exercises in Live Art Education and Performances 

      Valkoinen, Kristina Junttila (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-03-28)
      This thesis is focusing on the exercise as an event in live art, participatory art and live art education. The thesis looks at the potential of exercises to facilitate for an inclusive space and the unknown future. The thesis consists of four peer-reviewed published articles and a summary article (“kappe” in Norwegian). The studies are practice-led research, using a diffractive analysis, based on ...
    • Illness and the Scandinavian Gothic: Unnatural Illness Narratives in Scandinavian Fiction 

      Mikalsen, Paula Ryggvik (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-03-07)
      Denne avhandlingen analyserer tre samtidsromaner, Mats Strandbergs "Hemmet", Ragnar Hovlands "Ei vinterreise" og Olga Ravns "Celestine". Romanene behandler ulike sykdomsmotiv, og undersøkelsen viste at selv om romanene varierer i sjanger, språk, og eksperimentell narrasjon, er ulike sykdommer fremstilt gjennom samme troper og motiv, mer bestemt besettelse, forfølgelse, og hjemsøkelse. Jeg har lest ...
    • Learn, Teach, Heal: Articulations of Indigeneity and Spirituality in Indigenous Tourism in British Columbia, Canada 

      Jennings, Helen (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-01-13)
      ‘Learn, Teach, Heal’ encapsulates what seems to be occurring in Indigenous Tourism on Vancouver Island and the Haida Gwaii in British Columbia, Canada. Operating as a ‘Tourist-researcher’ in 2017 and 2018, I was there at a time when Indigenous Tourism was booming, partly facilitated by the political movement of Truth & Reconciliation. Tourism is often seen as a shallow, commercial and artificial ...
    • 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 ...
    • Multimodality and literacy practices in English: Exploring the role of multimodal texts in English language teaching in Norway 

      Jakobsen, Ingrid K. (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-12-06)
      This article-based doctoral dissertation investigates multimodality in English as a school subject in Norway, more specifically in relation to literacy. Calls for more research on multimodality in English language teaching in Norway motivated this study. Furthermore, the recent curriculum inclusion of multimodal texts in the English subject increases its relevance for both practice and research. The ...
    • Enjoyment and Transcendence 

      Rolfsen, Theodor Sandal (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-11-10)
      In the present thesis, I ask why immanence (the world) and transcendence (God) has often been thought to be in conflict with each other, and attempt to think their relation differently. Both are done by interpreting immanence as revolving around the phenomenon of enjoyment. I argue that the Christians of the early Church saw detachment from worldly pleasures through ascetic practice as a requirement ...
    • On the place of self-respect and self-esteem in the justification of a theory of social justice 

      Stensen, Vegard (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-10-07)
      This dissertation discusses the place of self-respect, self-esteem, and related self-attitudes in the justification of a theory of distributive justice. It is broadly agreed that self-respect/self-esteem is a highly important good, and that it relies on a supportive social environment. Different authors within different traditions have taken up this idea to ground a wide variety of principles, ...
    • Det indre liv i NAV. Kommunikasjon om prioritering og arbeidsform på et NAV-kontor 

      Sæther, Maria (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-09-30)
      This thesis is an ethnographic study and a Single Case-study of how caseworkers and managers of a NAV-office relate to dilemmas regarding priorities, which solutions they choose and how the they are justified. The manner of how regulatory texts were interpreted and practised locally, was investigated according to institutional ethnography (Smith, 2005). The methods used includes participant ...
    • The Morality of Law 

      Zimeri, Sead (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-09-28)
      <p>This thesis defends a unified theory of morality and law: the one-system view or the normative continuity between morality and law. The one-system view contends that law and morality belong to one normative domain: the moral domain or the domain of practical reason. As part of the moral domain, the law is and ought to be made, interpreted and applied within the limits of moral justification. Legal ...
    • The roles role play plays : The form and function of bilectal codeswitching in North Norwegian pre-school children’s role play 

      Strand, Bror-Magnus S. (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-08-25)
      It is well known that Norwegian children code-switch from their native dialect to something resembling Central or Standard East Norwegian in their in-character role utterances during role play. Despite this, the structural aspects of the phenomenon are not exhaustively studied and understood, and the function of this role-play register as a tool for communication in role play deserves further ...
    • Typological variation in language contact: A phonological analysis of Italiot Greek 

      Apostolopoulou, Eirini (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-07-01)
      This dissertation investigates the phonology of Italiot Greek (IG) from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective, pursuing two core objectives: first, to provide an up-to-date description of the phonological system of IG, highlighting the deviations from Medieval Greek as well as the vast cross- and intra-dialectal variation, and, second, to account for the typological changes IG has undergone ...
    • Imot institusjonen. En analyse av Amalie Skrams Professor Hieronimus og På Sct. Jørgen (1895) og Knut Hamsuns Paa gjengrodde Stier (1949) 

      Ramberg, Ingri Løkholm (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-06-24)
      This dissertation is an analysis of three (semi-)autobiographical literary works: Amalie Skram’s novels <i>Professor Hieronimus</i> and <i>På Sct. Jørgen</i> (1895) and Knut Hamsun’s memoir <i>Paa gjengrodde Stier</i> (1949). The analysis emphasizes the works’ portrayal of the institution. I examine how the institutional space, created for observation of the institutionalized individual, is portrayed ...
    • Crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition 

      Jensen, Isabel Nadine (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 ...
    • Ibsen in Iran. Dariush Mehrjui’s Transposition of Et dukkehjem (A Doll’s House) and Gengangere (Ghosts) to the Screen 

      Isaksen, Azadeh Mazloumsaki (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-04-07)
      <i>Sara</i> (1992) and <i>Ashbah</i> (2014) are the only Iranian movies openly based on Henrik Ibsen’s <i>Et dukkehjem</i> (<i>A Doll’s House</i>) (1879) and <i>Gengangere</i> (<i>Ghosts</i>) (1881), respectively. Both movies were produced in the Islamic Republic of Iran and scripted and directed by the internationally recognized Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui (born 1939). This study examines the ...
    • 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 ...
    • Rural Pupils Making their Way through the Norwegian Education System: Enablements, Constraints and Agency in a Northern Norwegian Context 

      Stenseth, Anna-Maria (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-03-11)
      This thesis focuses on pupils’ agency and their experiences with and reflections on educational choices. The theoretical framework draws on Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic approach as it examines parts of the educational situational logics, as well as her Three-Stage Model in which structural and cultural properties shape agents’ situations. The thesis thus explores constraints and enablements pupils ...