The paper outlines a research effort into the changing representations, policies, strategies, activities, and practices of libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) in the digital age. Comprehensive social changes including big slow-moving processes, such as aging populations, global migration, technological change, and environmental change, expose communities and LAM institutions to vulnerabilities. ...

Målsettinga med denne artikkelen er å skissere den språkideologiske kompleksiteten som gjelder for mange eldre flerspråkssituasjoner i Nord-Norge, det vil si kontaktsituasjoner som involverer samisk og/eller kvensk og norsk. Datagrunnlaget er henta fra en kvalitativ studie av språkbytte og språkbevaring i den tradisjonelt trespråklige kystbygda Olmmáivággi/Manndalen i Gáivuona suohkan / Kåfjord ...

<i>Norwegian abstract</i>: «Digitalisering av samisk kulturarv. Utfordringer og muligheter» er en presentasjon av problemstillinger og case-studier fra prosjektet «Digitalisering av samisk kulturarv. Formidling og verdiskaping i det moderne samiske kompetansesamfunnet - DIGSAM». Rapporten har seks fagkapitler som hver tar for seg diskuterer ulike aspekter og implikasjoner ved digitalisering. ...

In the beginning of the 2000’s a meeting takes place at one of the major hospitals in Northern Norway, between a Sámi patient Juvvá, and his roommate, a retired Norwegian engineer. The engineer shows a negative attitude towards his Sámi roommate. Based on a symptomatic reading of three stories, this article presents a character analysis of Juvvá’s birgengoansttat, coping skills, in his encounter ...

Este trabajo discute el problema de que la inmensa mayoría de los adjetivos deverbales dan lugar a lecturas no episódicas, lo cual se traduce en desafíos para su análisis, toda vez que no tenemos una definición sólida de las propiedades positivas de los adjetivos. Se propone que en un sistema con dominios ontológicos donde el nivel verbal define esencias eventivas sin anclaje a mundos o tiempos ...

Este trabajo muestra que, pese a las apariencias, las estructuras de No vi a Juan sino a María y Vi no a Juan sino a María son diferentes. Mientras que es posible aceptar un análisis estándar en el caso de la primera, la segunda estructura presenta propiedades sorprendentes que no son compatibles con la idea de que el a Juan funciona como argumento del predicado. Este trabajo propone que en el ...

This article focuses on Ayi Kwei Armah’s <i>The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born</i> (1968), which portrays a nameless protagonist who clings to his own ethics as he resists corruption in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana in the 1960s, an instance of what Achille Mbembe has called the postcolony. This situation bears comparison with Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy, which emphasises individual responsibility ...

The present article provides a critical introduction to concepts of estrangement. After referring scholarly debates about origins, mutual relations, and legacies of concepts such as Viktor Shklovsky’s ostranenie, Bertolt Brecht’s V-effect, and Augusto Boal’s spect-actor, I critically review earlier applications of these concepts in game studies and point to some problematic aspects of these endeavors. ...

This study explores the temporal dynamics of language use, collaboration, and creativity in the case of a start-up weekend. The organisation of interaction in time and the use of temporal indexes and semiotic resources vary over time, not simply because of changing contextual conditions, but rather because of dynamic developments in the flow of time. Interacting in time, the participants appropriate ...

In this paper, we explore the role of cognition in bilingual syntactic processing by employing a structural priming paradigm. A group of Norwegian-English bilingual children and an age-matched group of Norwegian monolingual children were tested in a priming task that included both a within-language and a between-language priming condition. Results show that the priming effect between-language was ...