In film history Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922) is usually considered the first documentary and possibly one of the best known documentaries of the silent era. It has also been called the first ethnographic film, as well as the first art film. However, this paper will not discuss the question of whether Nanook is a documentary, rather it will focus on the fact that there is not only ...

Dette er del to av en planlagt serie med orienterende artikler om moderne litteratur- og kulturteori. Det er meningen å presentere viktige retninger og tekster i tiden fra og med strukturalismen på 1960-tallet og fram til vår tid. Del en, om strukturalismen, er lagt ut på nettet som ”Småtrykk” 2/2004 hos Eureka forlag. Artiklene er skrevet for ikke-eksperter som ønsker å få en viss oversikt over ...

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 ...

This is an attempt to give a strictly formal and semantically motivated definition of the syntactic concepts of government, agreement, and adjunction. Government and adjunction are related to the strength of the syntactic connection, which, in its turn, is determined by the comparison of the syntactic representation – the tree – with the semantic one – the graph. If the semantic valency confirms ...

In Russian dialectology, most data are collected by means of traditional methodology. Most dialectologists use questionnaires, mainly for lexicographic purposes, which is a highly developed field of research in Russian dialectology, as in Russian linguistics in general. In addition, spontaneous monologues and dialogues are recorded. The language consultants are elderly inhabitants of remote ...

Christa Wolf’s Sommerstück was published in March 1989, just in time to celebrate the 60th birthday of the author in both East and West Germany. In the years after 1989, different paperback editions followed. Interesting to note is that pictures by Hartwig Hamer were included only in the original edition by Aufbau. Accordingly, I would like to focus in this paper on paratextual elements – using the ...

The present article presents some preliminary results of the study of some prosodic characteristics of the dialects of Varzuga and Umba, two Northern Russian villages on the Ter Coast of the White Sea. In our recently collected recordings, we observed a number of prosodic characteristics which are assumed to be typical for Northern Russian. Firstly, vowels appear to be relatively short. Secondly, ...