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 ...

Denne studien undersøker om det finnes problemer og utfordringer unike for situasjonen for lærere som underviser engelsk for minoritetsspråklige elever i norsk skole. Studien sammenligner også hvordan disse problemene og utfordringene oppfattes av lærere som underviser engelsk til minoritetsspråklige elever i innføringsklasser mot hvordan de oppfattes av lærere som underviser engelsk til minoritetsspråklig ...

This study investigated if any of the reported benefits related to peer assessment in writing could be transferred to oral EFL learning strategies. The study, despite a lack of control groups, sheds light on several aspects which influences peer assessment. The results indicated that the participants benefited from peer modelling and increased self-regulation due to assessing peers, rather than the ...

This thesis examines the obscene, particularly through three taboo motifs present in John Irving’s The Hotel New Hampshire, and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. I will explore the effect and treatment of issues like incest, rape, and sexual dissidence. Through this analysis of the obscene, I wish to illuminate that there exist inherent similarities between these novels in how the obscene is made conspicuous ...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the visual and textual representation of indigenous cultures in three English subject textbooks for Norwegian upper-secondary schools. The current study focuses on theories of dynamic cultural understanding, descriptive cultural understanding and structural binarism. The aim is to examine how English subject textbooks affect the development of upper-secondary ...

This thesis sets out to explore the production of social space, with a particular focus on how these spaces are racialized, in two major works by William Faulkner, Light in August (1932) and Go Down, Moses (1942). By examining how different characters interact with various spaces appearing in the narratives, the thesis aims to illustrate how the racially segregated aspect of culture in Faulkner´s ...

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 ...