The article gives a short account of the development of the spoken language from Old Norwegian to Modern Norwegian, the transition from Norwegian to Danish as the written language in Norway and the language of the church around the Reformation. It is argued that the changes in the spoken language were a long-term development completed, on the whole, at the time of the Reformation, that the transition ...

This paper investigates the means through which a series of artistic works invite critical responses to algorithmic governance and the systems of surveillance and data capture these draw upon. In combining the theoretical frameworks of Cornelius Castoriadis, Jacques Ranciére, and Chantal Mouffe, we conceptualize how, and to what possible effects, art can engage politics and focus the discussion on ...

In the past 20 years, the field of bilingualism has made a substantial effort to better understand the set of cognitive mechanisms that allow bilinguals to functionally manage and use their languages. Among the mechanisms that have been identified, cognitive control has been posited to be key for proficient bilingual language processing and use. However, the role of cognitive control in developing ...

In den beiden Jahrzehnten nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg veröffentlichte der niederländische Diplomat Robert van Gulik etwa anderthalb Dutzend Kriminalromane, die, um die Hauptfigur des Richter-Detektivs Di aus der Tang-Epoche gruppiert, inzwischen längst zu den Klassikern des Genres zählen. Der eigenwillige, aber anerkannte Sinologe Gulik, Verfasser auch von etwa 20 kulturwissenschaftlichen Büchern ...

Med renessansens framvekst i Italia ble det skapt en hagekultur som skulle få betydning langt utenfor landets grenser. Idealene ble hentet fra antikken. De karakteristiske renessansehagene startet blant adelen i Firenze og utviklet seg til store og imponerende anlegg blant overklassen ellers i Italia. Motivene fra renessansehagen spredte seg til den europeiske overklassen, men også til hager ...

Ever since Aristotle and Plato (<i>The Categories; Cratylus</i>), linguists have considered language to be the pairing of form (sounds or gestures or written strings) and meaning. This is true for all meaningful linguistic units from morphemes, through words, phrases and sentences, to discourse. Generally speaking, semantics is the study of how form and meaning are related. However, semantics is ...

Dette er del tre i serien ”Presentasjoner” – en rekke orienterende artikler om moderne litteratur- og kulturteori. Det er meningen å omtale viktige retninger, personer og tekster i tiden fra og med 1960-tallet til i dag. Artiklene er skrevet for ikke-eksperter som ønsker å få en viss oversikt over dette feltet, og som ønsker å kunne lese for eksempel Morgenbladet med større utbytte og mindre ...

The traditional notion of case is too coarse to distinguish between the English prepositional dative and the English shifted dative, the Spanish bare accusative and the Spanish “a” accusative, etc. I show that refining our typology of case to include such distinctions resolves a *ABA counterexample to Caha’s 2009 case hierarchy and I discuss where these new distinctions should be placed in the ...