Human languages are inextricably a part of our mind/brain. No other animal has a comparable ability with the same complexity and richness that humans do. An important research goal is to better understand this ability for language: What is it that enables human to acquire and use language the way we do? One way of answering this is to argue that there are aspects of our biology that enable us to ...

»It’s still a question of whether it’s a kind of crime – reading so much human into nature. Whether it’s our fate to do so.«1 In these lines from her novel Om mørke (2013), the Danish author Josefine Klougart alludes to one of the most important questions of our time: how might a responsible relationship be shaped between humans and nature? Is it possible to correct and rethink anthropocentric ...

We present a series of large-scale formal acceptability judgment studies that explored Norwegian island phenomena in order to follow up on previous observations that speakers of Mainland Scandinavian languages like Norwegian accept violations of certain island constraints that are unacceptable in most languages cross-linguistically. We tested the acceptability of wh-extraction from five island types: ...

Unser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit italienischen Herkunftssprecher/innen im Fremdsprachenunterricht Italienisch in Baden-Württemberg, wobei wir drei Perspektiven einnehmen: (i) die Mikro-Perspektive der Herkunftssprecher/innen, die in der Regel flüssig Italienisch sprechen, aber oft bidialektal mit einer Varietät des Italienischen sind, (ii) die Meso-Perspektive der Lehrenden, die diese angemessen ...

The article investigates the motifs of hunting and wilderness in the Norwegian novelist Trygve Gulbranssens Bjørndal Trilogy – Og bakom synger skogene (1933), published in English as Beyond Sing the Woods; Det blåser fra Dauingfjell (1934) and Ingen vei går utenom (1935), collectively translated under the English title The Wind from the Mountains. The books have been translated into over 30 ...

Denne artikkelen om Jean Gionos Récits de la demi-brigade viser hvordan forfatteren bruker elementer fra kriminalsjangeren for å reflektere omkring selve skriveprosessen. Giono "lurer" leseren til å tro at det dreier seg om kriminalfortellinger, men det viser seg fort at han "bryter sjangerkontrakten". Alle de 6 fortellingene kretser riktignok om forbrytelser og etterforskning. men helten, politimannen ...

Studies within oncology show that patients suffering from cancer report having a stronger feeling of hope than the general population. Such findings correspond to the pivotal role hope has in Henrik Wergeland’s (1808–1845) six so-called deathbed poems. Writing of illness the way Wergeland does is a part of the tradition of autobiographical literature called pathography. However, also having a dead ...

A glass case by the entrance at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science-building contains objects that captivates the eye and creates a desire to touch. Hard materials, like wood, has taken on the texture of smooth velvet – and rough materials, like branched horns, materialize as sleek and gleaming through the exquisite artistry of Johan Rist.

Sosiale medium utfordrar det tradisjonelle skiljet mellom normert og standardisert skriftspråk og inviterer til kreativ og refleksiv språkbruk. For mange norske ungdommar er det vanleg å ta i bruk trekk frå eit breitt språkleg repertoar – inkludert dialekttrekk og andre unormerte trekk – i private samanhengar på sosiale medium. I denne artikkelen presenterer vi data frå fire utvalde stader i ei ...

Today it often happens that the protagonist in crime fiction is a journalist—for instance, in the globally spread sub-genre of Nordic noir. This article examines what readers can learn about journalism by comparing crime fiction (a widely popular genre fostering society critique) from Russia, Sweden, and USA. These countries with significantly different press traditions have in the post-1991 era ...