Det er velkjent hvordan etableringen av Finnefondet, språk og skolepolitikk, samt salg og tildeling av jord for å fremme norsktalende bosetting i grenseområdene i nord utover på 1800- og 1900-tallet kan ses som deler av en strategisk fornorskingspolitikk.[1] At kunst- og kulturfeltene kan ha bidratt til å fremme ensretting av samfunn og medborgerskap – endog til fornorskning – synes å være mindre ...

Kveenin kieli eli kainunkieli kuuluu uhanalaisiin kieliin, koska se ei enää ole vanhemmilta lapsille luonnollisessa kommunikaatiossa välittyvä kieli. Artikkelissa analysoidaan Engeströmin (1987) toiminnan teorian avulla kveenin kielen ja kulttuurin elvyttämistä kahdessa pohjoisnorjalaisessa päiväkodissa. Vain toisessa kuvatuista päiväkodeista pyrittiin kveenin kielen elvytykseen ns. kielipesämenetelmää ...

Kainun kieli oon yksi Ruijan viidestä viralisesta minoriteettikielestä. Oman kielen statuksen se sai vuona 2005. Enniimitten kieli muistuttaa meänkieltä Ruottissa ja suomen pohjaisdialektiita. Kainun kielen grammatikki oon ensimäinen täkkäävä kuvvaus kainun kielen struktuurin ympäri. Se kuvvaa kielen varieteettiita niin ko Kainun kielitinka oon päättäny ette net oon oppikirjanormaalissa. Siinä ...

In this article, we address the issue of targeted instruction on interpretive contrasts between native and second-language grammatical meanings. Such mismatches are predicted to create challenges for learners. We illustrate this with French and English pronouns. In French, clitic pronouns (<i>le, la</i>) point to human as well as inanimate referents, while English pronouns distinguish between human ...

Interest in third language (L3) acquisition has increased exponentially in recent years, due to its potential to inform long-lasting debates in theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and psycholinguistics. From the very beginning, researchers investigating child and adult L3 acquisition have considered the many diverse cognitive factors that constrain and condition the initial state and ...

Arne Dybfest (1862-1892) is a Norwegian author whose female figures seem to have all the usual characteristics of the decadent woman. They are erotic, calculating and dangerous creatures entangling men in their snares and ruining their lives. They are morally, socially and aesthetically transgressive. At the same time, they remind us of the "huldra", a central figure in Scandinavian folklore. This ...

In this article, we investigate labour struggles under the condition of digital capitalism. The main research question this paper addresses is: How do German unions evaluate and respond to the rapidly accelerating digitalisation of economy and work? Based on a series of interviews with union representatives in Germany, we trace recent developments in an increasingly digitised economy and outline ...

The article gives a survey of northern Norwegian poetry from the end of the eighteenth century until the present, focusing on how the north is depicted. Another line in the article follows the shaping of a specific northern Norwegian identity from the launching of the name “Nord-Norge” (North Norway) in 1884. The argument is that the feeling of marginalisation is no longer evident, probably because ...

The aim of this paper is to present diachronic changes in terms of the conditions of first language acquisition. Grammars, seen as mental organs, may change between two generations. A change is initiated when (a population of) learners converge on a grammatical system which differs in at least one parameter value from the system internalized by the speakers of the previous generation. Learnability ...