This master’s thesis is about linguistic attitudes that speakers from Panama have about their own variety, and what degree of prestige, identity, and emotional attitudes they assign to their own variety. The study presented here shows the results of a questionnaire where 30 people participated, and which probes different aspects of the values that they assign to the Panama variety in contrast with ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker det polare portrettet som et rom for å diskutere og reforhandle idéer om kjønn, maskulinitet og nasjonal identitet. Oppgaven diskuterer det polare portrettet som bærer av sentrale verdier i forbindelse med norsk selvforståelse, gjennom portretter av Marie Høeg, Monica Kristensen og Sayed Sattar Hasan iscenesatt som polare helter. Teksten analyserer portrettene i lys av ...

Cognitive functions are essential in human development in general, and they play a key role in language learning, as well as in reading and writing. A large body of evidence makes the relationship between executive functions and language acquisition and processing indisputable [Moser et al., 2007; Mazuka et al., 2009; Woodard et al., 2016; see also the meta-analysis by Swanson et al. (2009)]. ...

The thesis discusses Kate McCafferty’s novel Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl from 2003, in which the Irish heroine is Cot Daley, an indentured servant, who lives in Barbados in the seventeenth century. The thesis focuses upon how the novel negotiates the relationship between the historical contexts and the novel’s plot, theme and norm, and – moreover – how McCafferty’s Testimony negotiates the ...

This thesis examines two works of climate fiction, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) and Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries 2015 (2009), and suggests ways to teach them. The thesis draws on ecocritical work from theorists such as Lawrence Buell and criticism regarding the Anthropocene and ideas on how to integrate climate change in the English subject (ENG01-04). It argues that teachers of all subjects ...

This chapter makes a critical intervention in studies and practices of digital literacies. I argue that to become digitally literate also implies an awareness of digital technolo- gies’ material dimension, i.e., their technological affordances, economic embedding, and societal, environmental, as well as embodied effects and repercussions. After a brief walk-through of key advances in thinking about ...

Heritage grammars have been argued to differ with respect to whether they are an instantiation of divergent attainment or attrition. Attrition and divergent attainment are not mutually exclusive and can even co-exist with respect to the same or different grammatical phenomena, but teasing these apart requires longitudinal studies or carefully selected cross-sectional data (Montrul, 2008; 2016; ...

Taking a perception-action perspective, we investigated how the presence of different real objects in children’s immediate situation affected their creativity and whether this effect was moderated by their selective attention. Seventy children between ages 9 and 12 years old participated. Verbal responses on a visual Alternative Uses Task with a low stimulus and high stimulus condition were coded ...

Et konstruktikon er et stort strukturert inventar av grundig beskrevete og illustrerte konstruksjoner (Lyngfelt et al. 2018). Slike allment tilgjengelige digitale databaser er viktige ressurser for både språkforskere og andrespråkstudenter, men foreløpig bygges det konstruktikon for et svært lite antall språk, inkludert svensk, tysk, spansk, brasiliansk portugisisk, koreansk, japansk og russisk. Vår ...

This article focuses on Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel This Mournable Body (2018), which completes her trilogy on Tambudzai Sigauke’s life story in relation to the neoliberal political order in contemporary Zimbabwe. The country has been recently referred to as cultivating ultra-neoliberal policies, and, in such a framework, state repression becomes replaced by state negligence towards citizens’ ...