Artikler, rapporter og annet (språk og kultur): Recent submissions
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Instant annotations in ELAN corpora of spoken and written Komi, an endangered language of the Barents Sea region
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Introduction
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2017)Human languages are inextricably a part of our mind/brain. No other animal has a comparable ability with the same complexity and richness that humans do. An important research goal is to better understand this ability for language: What is it that enables human to acquire and use language the way we do? One way of answering this is to argue that there are aspects of our biology that enable us to ... -
Variation and change in Italian phonology: On the mutual dependence of grammar and lexicon in Optimality Theory
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2016-12-01)In this paper I discuss the influence of language acquisition and borrowing on the reorganisation of grammar and lexicon in the development from Latin into Italian. We will have a look at the historical sequencing of the introduction of new phonological processes, velar palatalization, mid vowel breaking, and lateral palatalization, and how they conspire to create new contrasts or reintroduce contrasts ... -
Verb Second Word Order in Norwegian Heritage Language: Syntax and Pragmatics
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019)In this paper, we investigate verb second (V2) word order in Norwegian heritage language spoken in the United States, i.e., in a situation where the heritage speakers have English as their dominant language. We show that not only the syntax of V2 may be affected in a heritage language situation, but that the number of contexts for this word order may also be severely reduced (i.e., non-subject-initial ... -
Interpreting Violence, Violent Interpretations: Introduction
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)This chapter introduces the key terms of the edited volume: violence, interpretation, narrative, hermeneutics, and ethics. It articulates how interpreting violence refers both to the process of meaning-making involved in understanding representations of violence and to the potential violence involved in interpretive acts themselves. Drawing on the distinction between understanding and explanation, ... -
Witnessing Extremity in Violent Narratives in Literature and Humanitarian Discourse
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)Beginning with Heidegger´s definition of violence as that which exceeds and reformulates normality, this essay questions how violence can be ethically represented and interpreted. In their ability to establish norms and then carry us beyond the bounds of the familiar, novels are uniquely suited to represent violence as norm-shattering. Contrasting tendencies in contemporary novels representing ... -
Promises, pitfalls and potentials of immersive journalism
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)When moving the discussion from VR-based interactive fiction to non-fiction genres such as immersive journalism, several issues of critical concern come to the fore: 1) How can the informants (or, indeed, the objects) of the immersive experiences implied by 360-degree journalism be adequately protected and how can they be properly included in the projects realized in their life worlds? 2) Which ... -
Una nota sobre locativos y acusativos
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-08-31)This article examins the behaviour of differential object marking in a set of verbs that exceptionally trigger it on direct objects of an inanimate nature. A articular form of unifying these cases with the locative uses of the preposition a ‘to, at’ is proposed, and that is taken as a starting point to reassess the semantic nature of this case marker. -
Una nota sobre la lectura de los adverbios de grado
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-06-13)One of the most influential tests in the recent studies on adjectival structure has been the combination of adjectives with degree adverbs as a way to diagnose the internal properties of the scale. This article shows that the combination of adverbs and adjectives does not always depend on scale properties; the paper argues that there are three other possible interpretations and proposes several tests ... -
Manufacturing Monsters Across Media and Genres: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Multi-Dimensional Research Agenda on the Cultural Construction of the Other
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-01-09)This theoretical chapter offers an integrated interdisciplinary model for the study of mediated cultural communication. Firstly, I describe the model and acknowledge preceding approaches that focused on similar issues. I show the intrinsic connections between aesthetic form, production, reception and reproduction, and argue for the necessity of studying all these components together to gain a ... -
Russland handlar rasjonelt
(Chronicle; Kronikk, 2023-02-17)I ordskiftet om krigen i Ukraina blir det av og til hevda at Russland handlar irrasjonelt. Dette er upresist språk. Kremls problem har ikkje vore mangel på rasjonalitet, men mangel på informasjon. -
Games and Realism
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022-11-11)This entry offers an overview over applications of the the concept of realism in game studies. After a general description of the term, I move on to an aesthetic notion of realism before I direct attention to its use in videogames research. I show that realism in game studies is about more than photorealist representation of surface phenomena and that it also needs to account for players’ perceptions. -
Functional neural architecture of cognitive control mediates the relationship between individual differences in bilingual experience and behaviour
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-04-03)Bilinguals have often, but not always, been found to outperform monolinguals on domain-general attentional control. Inconsistent findings have been argued to stem, at least partly, from treating bilingualism as a uniform category and from not considering how neural adaptations to bilingual experiences modulate behavioural outcomes. The present study investigated how patterns of language experience, ... -
The Participatory Approach and Student Active Learning in Language Teaching: Language Students as Journalists and Filmmakers
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article contributes to two recent discussions in pedagogy and education, namely, the impact of the participatory approach (Jenkins et al., 2009; Yowell & Rhoten, 2009) on learning and the benefits of student active learning (Sokolova et al., in press; Spasova & Welsh, 2020). The participatory approach incorporates texts and tasks on the topics of interest that are relevant to students’ ... -
Empirically determined strategic input and gamification in mastering Russian word forms
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)We propose two designs to gamify second language (L2) learning of Russian inflectional morphology: Treasure Hunt and Story Time. The goal of these designs is to focus learning on high-frequency word forms that are most strategic and effective for L2 acquisition in a way that stimulates engagement and builds lifelong learning skills. These two gamification designs emerged from a student focus group ... -
Flipping the Classroom? From Text to Video in Teaching Russian Grammar
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)The notion of a “flipped classroom” has received considerable attention in recent years. This article reports on a project in which an instructor and two students co-created teaching materials to facilitate flipping the classroom. The purpose of the article is twofold. First, we explore some aspects of flipped classrooms in Russian language courses. Second, we reflect on the opportunities and ... -
Construxercise!: Implementation of a construction-based approach to language pedagogy
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)We propose a construction-based approach to learning and teaching Russian as a second language (L2) and present an innovative pedagogical resource called Construxercise! Hands-on learning of Russian constructions (https://constructicon.github.io/construxercise-rus/) that implements this approach. The resource offers practical exercises for mastering Russian discourse constructions that are thoroughly ... -
Denominal action nouns in -ada
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12)The existence of simple event nouns derived from nouns through -ada (niñada 'childish action', tontada 'stupid action', puñalada 'stabbing') raises different problems in our understanding of the relation between verbs and nouns or, in general, the way in which languages codify an action in a nominal domain. This work proposes that -ada reflects a structure wherre the eventdescribing heads are ... -
Kremls språkkrig
(Chronicle; Kronikk, 2023-03-21)Når den russiske presidenten taler, er det om å gjøre å virke samlende innad og samtidig så splid blant motstanderens støttespillere i Vesten. Kreml har lyktes bedre med det første enn med det andre. -
Digital Games as Media for Teaching and Learning: A Template for Critical Evaluation
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-27)Background - Videogames can be useful tools for teaching and learning. To plan educational uses, potential benefits and possible problematic aspects of specific titles need to be critically assessed by teachers and school leaders prior to implementation. <p> <p>Theory and method - Based on game ontological models, we identify salient areas of inquiry in games research and use these to structure ...