This thesis focuses on Alexandra Kleeman’s novel Something New Under the Sun (2021), a work of climate fiction, and explores ways to teach it. The thesis investigates how capitalism and privatization are drivers of climate change in light of the novel, and how the issue serves as ideas for integrating climate change into the English curriculum (ENG01-04). The thesis asserts that teachers of all ...

The following thesis aims to explore the experiences pupils with dyslexia have when using Minecraft Education to work with English literature. The study used a qualitative approach where 10 pupils with dyslexia had to complete different tasks in Minecraft education after reading a chapter from the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The participants’ experiences were captured using ...

This thesis aims to highlight how learners’ native language affects their acquisition of a second language. The study compares how L1 Norwegian and Polish learners acquire subject-verb agreement and discusses how cross-linguistic influence affects their results. Furthermore, the study isolates long-distance and local agreement conditions for each group to further discuss if structural distance affects ...

It is well known that German and Dutch have productive diminutive morphology. What is much less discussed is the fact that several other Germanic languages do not have such productive morphology, notably the Scandinavian languages. Instead, these languages form compounds to express a diminutive meaning. This paper addresses the puzzle of why the Scandinavian languages do not have productive ...

Introduction: This study examines adjective-noun order in code-switched constructions by heritage speakers of Spanish and Papiamento in the Netherlands. Given that Dutch differs from Spanish and Papiamento regarding the default position of the adjective, word order in the nominal domain creates a so-called “conflict site” in code-switching. Most accounts of word order patterns in code-switching focus ...

This essay presents a decolonial analysis of the French painter François-Auguste Biard’s <i>Le Pasteur Laestadius instruisant des Lapons</i> (1840). A highlight at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum (Northern Norway Art Museum) in Romsa/Tromsø, Biard’s work represents the pastor Lars Levi Laestadius (1800–1861) preaching to a group of Sámi people outside their <i>goahtis</i> in winter. Exhibited in 1841 at the ...

Kibrik 2019 argues that a cognition-to-form approach to agreement is superior to the traditional form-to-form approach that is fraught with problems. We concur that it makes more sense to examine agreement from the perspective of cognitive representation and present a small study of how the semantics of adjectives contributes to the use of singular vs. plural agreement with Norwegian collective nouns ...

Henning Andersen (2012) points out that the Russian “new Vocative” (e.g., мам! ‘mama!’, Саш! ‘Sasha!’) presents a series of unusual behaviors that set it apart from ordinary case marking. Andersen argues that the Vocative should not be considered a declensional word form of nouns. The Russian Vocative is certainly an uncommon linguistic category, but does this entail setting up a new tran- scategorial ...

This thesis sets out to explore women's road narratives in terms of mobility, place and identity. Since the publication of Jack Kerouac's masterpiece On the Road, road narratives have been a recurring feature in American literature and culture. However, the female aspect of this genre remains under-explored. Literary works by and of women on the road are generally overlooked. The muteness of this ...