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"My kjedelige grena i ol ass". Stilistisk variasjon i en gruppechat på Facebook
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-05-30)Denne sosiolingvistiske studien av computer-mediated communication (CMC) tar utgangspunkt i 4945 meldinger postet i løpet av et halvt år i en gruppechat på Facebook. Chatten har ni mannlige deltagere i midten av tjueårene, inkludert undertegnede. Studien representerer den brukerorienterte tradisjonen i CMC-forskningen, og forfekter synet om at språkbruk på og utenfor nettet bør studeres i sammenheng. ... -
Youth blogging and serious illness
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-12-15)In recent years, a growing number of young people who experience illness tend to blog about it. In this paper, we question whether and how illness blogs illustrate the intercommunicative aspect of blogging by bringing forth both the literary concept of the implied reader and the sociological concepts of empowerment and agency in the analysis. We argue that young people blogging about serious illness ... -
Tradition and novelty in Stepan Pisakhov`s tales
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-04-27)The topic of the present thesis is “Tradition and Novelty in Stepan Pisakhov`s Tales”. It is aimed at examining various literary features, typical to the style of mentioned above author. The readers are acquainted with the writer and artist Stepan Pisakhov (1879 -1960) from Arkhangelsk, Russia and his tales. Special attention is given to examining of traditional elements in Pisakhov`s writing style, ... -
‘I will’ vs. ‘Yes, we can’. A rhetorical analysis of the political speeches of George W. Bush and Barack Obama during their election periods, with emphasis on their choice of metaphor
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-04-26)Even though signs of one of the worst American financial crises were already apparent by the end of the first presidential term of the Republican candidate George W. Bush, he managed to be reelected for a second term, and it can be argued that Bush’s rhetoric, which relied heavily on his famous ‘war on terror’, has contributed to his reelection. When the Democratic candidate Barack Obama was elected ... -
Grammatiske transformasjoner av russiske gerundier ved oversetting til norsk
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-13)Russisk gerundium (деепричастие) er en særegen verbal form som ikke har noe sidestykke i det norske språk. Når man oversetter tekster fra russisk, må man omformulere gerundier slik at oversettelsen blir ekvivalent. Dette vil si at man, foruten om det leksikalske og stilistiske, også må kunne ved hjelp av morfologiske former og syntaktiske konstruksjoner som finnes i målspråket (norsk), overføre den ... -
Estudio de las diferencias léxicas entre elaborar, realizar y efectuar
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-11-01)The following thesis discusses the lexical differences between three verbs of similar meaning in Spanish: elaborar, realizar and efectuar-. The three could be seen as synonyms of 'hacer', but this thesis shows that a careful examination of their direct objects and temporal forms shows significant differences that explain why their use is not identical. -
Estrategias de la traducción. Un estudio de estrategias de traducción y su aplicación práctica
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-11-01)Oversettelsesstrategier – en undersøkelse av ulike strategier og deres praktiske anvendelse ved oversetterarbeid, med spesielt fokus på oversettelse fra spansk til norsk Oppgavens målsetting er å belyse nytteverdien av teoretisk kunnskap for oversetterarbeid. Den tar utgangspunkt i at teoretisk kompetanse oftere leder til egnede oversetterstrategier, fordi man dermed lettere finner fram til riktig ... -
El ustedeo de familiaridad en Colombia
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-10-31)Denne oppgaven tar for seg fenomenet "ustedeo de familiaridad" og vil ha hovedfokus på Colombias hovedstad, Bogotá. På spansk er det vanlig å tiltale blant annet de som er eldre enn deg, eller mennesker med mye autoritet, ved bruk av det personlige pronomenet "usted" (tilsvarende det norske "De") og verbformen som hører til dette. Ustedeo de familiaridad er når man velger å bruke "usted" også for å ... -
Un estudio empírico de las colocaciones formadas por los verbos disponer de y constar de
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-10-30)The main objective of this thesis is create an empiric study of two regimen verbs in Spanish that are similar in meaning. The verbs are disponer de and constar de. Briefly explained, this thesis contains two vital components of equal importance: i) to better understand the nature of these two verbs and ii) to try to create models with the purpose of explaining how these regimen verbs work. This will ... -
Prestigio y afectividad. Estudio sobre las actitudes lingüísticas de las Islas Canarias
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-10-30)Language attitudes among Spanish speakers in the Canary Islands vary. We can understand the position of the spanish vary of the Canary Islands through parameters such as gender, social class and age. These factors influence the way in which ‘the speaker’ may perceive or interpret the canarian vary. As with other Spanish speaking countries such as America there are many similarities. Although, ... -
Formal Linguistic Approaches to Heritage Language Acquisition: Bridges for Pedagogically Oriented Research.
(Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2016)The goal of this chapter is to lay out the central themes of heritage language acquisition research adopting a formal/theoretical linguistic perspective. Specifically, we aim to provide a detailed discussion of the nature of heritage language grammars. In doing so, we will address the debates on how to explain heritage speaker competence differences from monolingual baselines and more. This ... -
Media Matter
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-02-27)The present contribution maps materialist advances in media studies. Based on the assumption that matter and materiality constitute significant aspects of communication processes and practices, I introduce four fields of inquiry - technology, political economy and labour, the body, and ecology - and argue that these perspectives enable more comprehensive understandings of the implications of ... -
La mujer hermosa y la estatua de palo de «El mundo por de dentro» de Francisco de Quevedo: el desafío epistemológico en clave escéptica
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-11-14)Although the fourth of Quevedo’s Dreams and Discourses (Sueños y discursos), The World from Within (El mundo por de dentro), has been characterized as one of his most ‘skeptical’ texts, few critics have explored how skepticism functions in the text. Based on my doctoral research that takes into account recent revisions of Renaissance skepticism as a ‘multi-purpose tool’ and examines the text as a ... -
Suomen kiuas, karjalan kiukua ja havaintoja etymologian tutkimusperinteestä
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)The article revisits and reevaluates the origins of the North Finnic word for ‘sauna stove’. According to the received view – originally presented in Uuno Taavi Sirelius’ (1907) study on dwellings of Uralic peoples – Finnish kiuas with variants such as kiukaa, kiukoa and kiukas, Karelian kiuku(v)a and kiugua as well as Ingrian kiukā and Vote tšiukas originate in the Finnic (Finnish) compound ... -
English compound and non-compound processing in bilingual and multilingual speakers: Effects of dominance and sequential multilingualism
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-05-02)This article reports on a study investigating the relative influence of the first language and dominant language (L1) on second language (L2) and third language (L3) morpho-lexical processing. A lexical decision task compared the responses to English NV-er compounds (e.g. taxi driver) and non-compounds provided by a group of native speakers and three groups of learners at various levels of English ... -
Evidence from Neurolinguistic Methodologies: Can it Actually Inform Linguistic/Language Acquisition Theories and Translate to Evidence-Based Applications?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-10-13)This special issue is a testament to the recent burgeoning interest by theoretical linguists, language acquisitionists and teaching practitioners in the neuroscience of language. It offers a highly valuable, state-of-the-art overview of the neurophysiological methods that are currently being applied to questions in the field of second language (L2) acquisition, teaching and processing. Research in ... -
The role of L1 phonology in L2 morphological production: L2 English past tense production by L1 Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese Speakers.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study considers the role of L1 phonological influence in L2 English past tense morphology production by native speakers of Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese. While these L1s share similar phonological restrictions on consonant cluster formation needed for English past tense morphology, differences arise in L1 syntax (only Mandarin lacks syntactic past) and L1 prosodic structure (only Japanese has ... -
Differences in use without deficiencies in competence: passives in the Turkish and German of Turkish heritage speakers in Germany.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)Determining how and why adult outcomes of heritage speaker (HS) bilingualism differ from monolinguals is difficult because it requires the reconstruction of developmental paths from end-state data. In an effort to address this issue, we examine HSs of Turkish in Germany at an early age of development (10-15 years old, n=22), as well as age-matched monolingual controls in Turkey (n=20) and Germany ... -
The state of the science in generative SLA and its place in modern second language studies.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article has two main goals. The first is to summarize and comment on the current state-of-affairs of generative approaches to SLA (GenSLA), thirty-five years into its history. This discussion brings the readership of SSLA up-to-date on the questions driving GenSLA agendas and clears up misconceptions about what GenSLA does and does not endeavor to explain. We engage key questions/debates/shifts ... -
Selective Realism: Filtering Experiences of War and Violence in First- and Third-Person Shooters
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-07-31)The present article develops the concept of selective realism to understand how design features and narrative frames of first- and third-person shooters (F/TPS) exclude attention to salient, yet unpleasant, features of warfare such as problematic forms of violence, long-term psychological impacts, or socio-political blowbacks. Identifying four specific filters that frame player experiences, I argue ...
