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Helleristningene i Alta: Estetikken, geologien og figurene
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-12-08)<p>The dissertation contains an analysis and a re-evaluation of the Alta rock engravings, where the aesthetic qualities of the rocks and the engravings constitute the point of departure. Aesthetics is this context is not conceived of as something connected to beauty or art, but rather defined simply as cognition by sensory perception, the qualities of objects that can be perceived by the senses and ... -
Multimodality and literacy practices in English: Exploring the role of multimodal texts in English language teaching in Norway
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-12-06)This article-based doctoral dissertation investigates multimodality in English as a school subject in Norway, more specifically in relation to literacy. Calls for more research on multimodality in English language teaching in Norway motivated this study. Furthermore, the recent curriculum inclusion of multimodal texts in the English subject increases its relevance for both practice and research. The ... -
Enjoyment and Transcendence
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-11-10)In the present thesis, I ask why immanence (the world) and transcendence (God) has often been thought to be in conflict with each other, and attempt to think their relation differently. Both are done by interpreting immanence as revolving around the phenomenon of enjoyment. I argue that the Christians of the early Church saw detachment from worldly pleasures through ascetic practice as a requirement ... -
On the place of self-respect and self-esteem in the justification of a theory of social justice
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-10-07)This dissertation discusses the place of self-respect, self-esteem, and related self-attitudes in the justification of a theory of distributive justice. It is broadly agreed that self-respect/self-esteem is a highly important good, and that it relies on a supportive social environment. Different authors within different traditions have taken up this idea to ground a wide variety of principles, ... -
Det indre liv i NAV. Kommunikasjon om prioritering og arbeidsform på et NAV-kontor
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-09-30)This thesis is an ethnographic study and a Single Case-study of how caseworkers and managers of a NAV-office relate to dilemmas regarding priorities, which solutions they choose and how the they are justified. The manner of how regulatory texts were interpreted and practised locally, was investigated according to institutional ethnography (Smith, 2005). The methods used includes participant ... -
The Morality of Law
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-09-28)<p>This thesis defends a unified theory of morality and law: the one-system view or the normative continuity between morality and law. The one-system view contends that law and morality belong to one normative domain: the moral domain or the domain of practical reason. As part of the moral domain, the law is and ought to be made, interpreted and applied within the limits of moral justification. Legal ... -
The roles role play plays : The form and function of bilectal codeswitching in North Norwegian pre-school children’s role play
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-08-25)It is well known that Norwegian children code-switch from their native dialect to something resembling Central or Standard East Norwegian in their in-character role utterances during role play. Despite this, the structural aspects of the phenomenon are not exhaustively studied and understood, and the function of this role-play register as a tool for communication in role play deserves further ... -
Typological variation in language contact: A phonological analysis of Italiot Greek
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-07-01)This dissertation investigates the phonology of Italiot Greek (IG) from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective, pursuing two core objectives: first, to provide an up-to-date description of the phonological system of IG, highlighting the deviations from Medieval Greek as well as the vast cross- and intra-dialectal variation, and, second, to account for the typological changes IG has undergone ... -
Imot institusjonen. En analyse av Amalie Skrams Professor Hieronimus og På Sct. Jørgen (1895) og Knut Hamsuns Paa gjengrodde Stier (1949)
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-06-24)This dissertation is an analysis of three (semi-)autobiographical literary works: Amalie Skram’s novels <i>Professor Hieronimus</i> and <i>På Sct. Jørgen</i> (1895) and Knut Hamsun’s memoir <i>Paa gjengrodde Stier</i> (1949). The analysis emphasizes the works’ portrayal of the institution. I examine how the institutional space, created for observation of the institutionalized individual, is portrayed ... -
Crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-06-20)<p>In this dissertation, crosslinguistic influence in third language (L3) acquisition is investigated in three articles that explore how linguistic variables affect the influence of pre-existing grammars. The goal is to contribute to novel insights about the cognitive process of language acquisition. <p>We collected data in offline acceptability judgements tasks. In articles 1 and 2, we tested ... -
Ibsen in Iran. Dariush Mehrjui’s Transposition of Et dukkehjem (A Doll’s House) and Gengangere (Ghosts) to the Screen
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-04-07)<i>Sara</i> (1992) and <i>Ashbah</i> (2014) are the only Iranian movies openly based on Henrik Ibsen’s <i>Et dukkehjem</i> (<i>A Doll’s House</i>) (1879) and <i>Gengangere</i> (<i>Ghosts</i>) (1881), respectively. Both movies were produced in the Islamic Republic of Iran and scripted and directed by the internationally recognized Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui (born 1939). This study examines the ... -
The distribution of main and embedded structures: V2 and non-V2 orders in North Germanic
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-03-30)North Germanic has Verb Second (V2) word order in main but not embedded clauses. Although as a first approximation V2 is a phenomenon characteristic of root clauses, it has long been known that it occurs also in a restricted set of embedded clauses in many, if not all, of the North Germanic languages. Moreover, a wide variety of Norwegian dialects allow deviations from the standard V2 word order in ... -
Rural Pupils Making their Way through the Norwegian Education System: Enablements, Constraints and Agency in a Northern Norwegian Context
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-03-11)This thesis focuses on pupils’ agency and their experiences with and reflections on educational choices. The theoretical framework draws on Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic approach as it examines parts of the educational situational logics, as well as her Three-Stage Model in which structural and cultural properties shape agents’ situations. The thesis thus explores constraints and enablements pupils ... -
Samarbeidende autonomistøtte. Skole-hjem-samarbeid som pedagogisk fenomen i videregående skole
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-03-08)Avhandlinga utforsker og teoretiserer skole-hjem-samarbeid som pedagogisk fenomen i videregående skole. Forskningsdesignet er kvalitativt og dialogkafé anvendes som metode for å utforske praksiserfaringer og skape dialoger. I tillegg inngår en analyse av juridiske dokumenter. Praksisteori anvendes for å redegjøre for og analysere samarbeidet som pedagogisk praksis. Teori om danning og autonomistøtte ... -
Pluractional Perfects: Anatomy of a Construction in Eonavian Spanish
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-03-04)This dissertation presents an empirical and theoretical examination of Pluractional Perfects, i.e. analytic participle constructions with the semantics of a Perfect that at the same time incorporate some form of plurality at the level of the event described. This is the first study that aims at unifying through a common set of syntactic and semantic properties a group of constructions that were ... -
Mellom Solferino og Berlin. Norges Røde Kors under andre verdenskrig
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-03-04)Den totale krigens karakter satte sitt klare preg på den humanitære virksomheten i Norge mellom 1940 og 1945. Men knappe ressurser og måten utnyttelsen av dem hvilte på sivilsamfunnets frivillige krefter, åpnet for at Norges Røde Kors under den tyske invasjonen og okkupasjonen av landet, kunne operere innenfor et humanitært «rom» organisasjonen selv kunne påvirke. Norges Røde Kors måtte hele veien ... -
R2P. The controversial Implementation of The Responsibility to Protect within State Sovereignty
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-01-19)The thesis is a cover-article for five published articles on R2P, the national and international responsibility to protect populations from mass atrocities defined as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing. The principle was adopted by the UN General Assembly at the World Summit in 2005 and has since been implemented, partly with success, partly by generating great ... -
Innføring og bruk av iPad i grunnskolen. Sosiomaterielle sammenvevinger av teknologi, skole og lærerprofesjon
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-12-17)<p>Denne avhandlingen er et bidrag til å forstå hva som skjer når en ny teknologi trer inn i skolekonteksten. Avhandlingens forskningsfokus vokste ut av et behov for kunnskap om hvordan teknologi faktisk organiseres i skolen, hva læreres profesjonsfaglige digitale kompetanse (PfDK) vil si i praksis, og en ambisjon om å tilføre nye teknologiforståelser på feltet. Studien som avhandlingen bygger på ... -
Between sports and subjective spirituality: Nordic yoga practitioners' perspectives on yoga, religion, and spirituality
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-12-09)The topic of this dissertation is Nordic yoga practitioners’ perspectives on yoga, religion, and spirituality, based on a questionnaire and interviews. In the monograph I explore who the Nordic yoga respondents are, why they have started (and continued) a yoga practice, and their attitudes and alignment to traditional religion, non-religion and subjective spiritualities. In the contemporary popular ... -
En kyststat trer fram - Norsk havpolitikk 1973-1995
(Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-12-03)Den avgrensede tematikken for avhandlingen er hvordan Norge bidro med å utmeisle en ny kyststatsrolle under FNs tredje havrettskonferanse (1973-1982), og hvordan dette befestet seg som en del av norsk havpolitikk i forhandlinger med nabostatene i Nordøst-Atlanteren og i bistandshjelpen gjennom 1980- og starten av 1990-tallet. Avhandlingen legger vekt på at Norge var del av et internasjonalt fellesskap ...
