The thesis discusses Kate McCafferty’s novel Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl from 2003, in which the Irish heroine is Cot Daley, an indentured servant, who lives in Barbados in the seventeenth century. The thesis focuses upon how the novel negotiates the relationship between the historical contexts and the novel’s plot, theme and norm, and – moreover – how McCafferty’s Testimony negotiates the ...

This thesis examines two works of climate fiction, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) and Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries 2015 (2009), and suggests ways to teach them. The thesis draws on ecocritical work from theorists such as Lawrence Buell and criticism regarding the Anthropocene and ideas on how to integrate climate change in the English subject (ENG01-04). It argues that teachers of all subjects ...

This chapter makes a critical intervention in studies and practices of digital literacies. I argue that to become digitally literate also implies an awareness of digital technolo- gies’ material dimension, i.e., their technological affordances, economic embedding, and societal, environmental, as well as embodied effects and repercussions. After a brief walk-through of key advances in thinking about ...

Heritage grammars have been argued to differ with respect to whether they are an instantiation of divergent attainment or attrition. Attrition and divergent attainment are not mutually exclusive and can even co-exist with respect to the same or different grammatical phenomena, but teasing these apart requires longitudinal studies or carefully selected cross-sectional data (Montrul, 2008; 2016; ...

Taking a perception-action perspective, we investigated how the presence of different real objects in children’s immediate situation affected their creativity and whether this effect was moderated by their selective attention. Seventy children between ages 9 and 12 years old participated. Verbal responses on a visual Alternative Uses Task with a low stimulus and high stimulus condition were coded ...

Et konstruktikon er et stort strukturert inventar av grundig beskrevete og illustrerte konstruksjoner (Lyngfelt et al. 2018). Slike allment tilgjengelige digitale databaser er viktige ressurser for både språkforskere og andrespråkstudenter, men foreløpig bygges det konstruktikon for et svært lite antall språk, inkludert svensk, tysk, spansk, brasiliansk portugisisk, koreansk, japansk og russisk. Vår ...

This article focuses on Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel This Mournable Body (2018), which completes her trilogy on Tambudzai Sigauke’s life story in relation to the neoliberal political order in contemporary Zimbabwe. The country has been recently referred to as cultivating ultra-neoliberal policies, and, in such a framework, state repression becomes replaced by state negligence towards citizens’ ...

The paper focuses on the semantics of distributivity, grammatical number, and cardinality predicates (numerals and modifiers like several). I argue that constructions involving so-called ‘dependent plurals’, i.e. plurals lacking cardinality predicates occurring in the scope of certain quantificational items such as all and most (e.g. All the girls were wearing hats), pose a challenge to familiar ...

The present article reassesses some available data regarding word-internal language mixing (Spanish–German) involving verbs and nouns. The empirical generalization is that Spanish roots can be combined with German verbalizers, but not vice versa. Data of this type highlight the sophisticated knowledge of the underlying representations that code-switching bilinguals must have of both contributing ...

This longitudinal study examined the development of narrative micro- and macrostructure in Japanese-English bilingual returnee children. Returnees are children of immigrant families who move to a foreign country, spending a significant portion of their formative developmental years in the foreign majority language context before returning to their native language environment. The returnees did a ...