This thesis will explore how adult fiction invites empathy in the reader and lets the reader experience and learn through reading. I will look at how adult fiction narrated through the child’s perspective invites the reader to an empathetic reflection. By using The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, I will identify how narrative techniques are used in order to ...

The goal for this thesis is to study how teachers and specialized workers evaluate teaching and learning in the school subject, English, through upper secondary school, and, in answering this, to contribute to the question regarding the relevance of English in the workers’ profession. The study has a qualitative research design. Semi-structured focus-group interviews were conducted with the teachers, ...

The present study focuses on the acquisition of English as a third language by Catalan/Spanish bilinguals. The aim is to find evidence of crosslinguistic influence from Catalan and/or Spanish in their L3 English by testing the properties of the Definiteness Effect (DE), according to which the copula cannot be followed by a definite DP in existential constructions in English and Spanish; VOS word ...

This paper focuses on the acquisition of locative prepositional phrases in L1 Norwegian. We report on two production experiments with children acquiring Norwegian as their first language and compare the results to similar experiments conducted with Russian children. The results of the experiments show that Norwegian children at age 2 regularly produce locative utterances lacking overt prepositions, ...

One of the main questions that arises in cases where children code switch or code mix often in their early production is whether mixing can be considered a sign of confusion, of competency, or of neither. Earlier research on language mixing in bilingual first language acquisition often pointed to the idea of a “unitary language system,” with code mixing being considered a sign of confusion. More ...

Este artículo se ofrecen varios argumentos para considerar que los interfijos y los morfemas apreciativos son en realidad la misma clase de objetos, como sugiere Lázaro Mora (1999), lo cual permite tratarlos unificadamente como marcadores de la no prototipicidad de lo expresado en la base. Entre las consecuencias de esta propuesta se encuentra que no pueden asociarse los diminutivos ...

“The linguistic attitudes of Mexican speakers in Mexico City and the metropolitan area” The objective of this thesis is to find out the linguistic attitudes that exist in Mexico City and its metropolitan area. In contrast to other studies of linguistic attitudes, which tend to focus on only one aspect, here I have tried to consider three fundamental axes with the intention of obtaining a ...

Sámi ráppárat Áivan, SlinCraze, Ailu Valle ja Duolva Duottar leat maid gohčoduvvon davvisámegiela váldoráppárin. UiT Árktalaš Universitehta vuosttašamanueansa Sin jietna ja ságastallan leat sihke siskkobeale ja olggobeale Sámi. Sii leat ovdavázzit ja sin ráppa lea dehálaš jietna sámi almmolaš digaštallamis ja dekoloniseremis (vrd. Kuokkanen 2009: 35). Teorehtalaš lahkonanvugiid válljemii lean válljen ...

I katolske kirker finner vi ofte votivskip, i evangelisk-lutherske kirker finner vi ofte kirkeskip. Begge typer er kirkeutsmykking, begge deler er skipsmodeller som henger i kirker, det er tradisjoner som minner om hverandre, men de har forskjellig utgangspunkt og innhold. Kirkeskip er en kirkeutsmykking med lav kostnadsterskel, mange i menighetene hadde anledning til å lage et kirkeskip til ...

I litteraturen er det bred enighet om at folkemusikkarkivene forvalter en viktig del av den immaterielle kulturarven i Norge. Arkivarene og institusjonene de er ansatt ved har ansvar for å samle inn, ta vare på og forvalte denne arven, i samarbeid med musikere, dansere og andre som til sammen utgjør folkedansfeltet. Folkemusikkarkivene er et såpass lite ensartet felt, både når det gjelder institusjonenes ...