This thesis explores the meaning and use of the Russian particles že and ved‘, as well as their relationship. In this thesis I carry out three investigations using cognitive linguistic methods, corpus data and statistical methods. First, I explore the meaning and use of že and ved‘ and how they are translated to English using parallel corpus data. I propose a radial category for both že and ved‘ and ...

This thesis utilizes Kiley Reid’s novel Such A Fun Age with its realistic characters and themes as a method to teach students about the interdisciplinary topic of health and life skills in the new national curricula, LK20. Because the LK20 began its implementation in Norwegian schools the year prior to this thesis, there is a need for more in-depth knowledge about the interdisciplinary topics as ...

Despite its prominent use among bilinguals, psycholinguistic studies reported code-switch processing costs (e.g., Meuter & Allport, 1999). This paradox may partly be due to the focus on the code-switch itself instead of its potential subsequent benefits. Motivated by corpus studies on CS patterns and sociopragmatic functions of CS, we asked whether bilinguals use code-switches as a cue to the lexical ...

Children who are refugees become bilingual in circumstances that are often challenging and that can vary across national contexts. We investigated the second language (L2) syntactic skills of Syrian children aged 6-12 living in Canada (n = 56) and the Netherlands (n = 47). Our goal was to establish the impact of the first language (L1 = Syrian Arabic) skills on L2 (English, Dutch) outcomes and whether ...

This master’s thesis investigates J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and specifically its three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, from a post-colonial literary perspective. By examining these books based on Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism and Frantz Fanon’s ideas on national culture, reveals a new and original argument about Orcs and Hobbits ...

This thesis will provide an analysis of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970) and God Help the Child (2015) in light of historical context and gothic literary tropes, with the main focus on shame and the black body, violence and the inheritance of shame in families. I will show how an intertextual gothic reading of characters highlights the structural problems of racism in the shadow of slavery and ...

Sarah Kane’s play Cleansed created headlines in 1995 due to its violent and shocking content. While the theme of love has been acknowledged in the discourse on the play since its original staging, the emphasis has been on the grotesque nature of the play. This thesis aims to bring attention the theme of love in Cleansed and argues that the violence is merely a tool in amplifying the experience of ...

This thesis, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, a Canonical Representation with an Entry to In-Depth Learning in the Norwegian Classroom, defines a bridge between Western Canonical literature and in-depth learning by using the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon. The novel is a popular choice already in Norwegian classrooms, ...

The main objective of this thesis is to address how we can use Mark Haddon’s complex 2004 multitextual novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Jay Asher’s controversial novel Thirteen Reasons Why with the methods of digital storytelling (DST) and podcasts to educate pupils in upper secondary school in Norway to become creative, engaged, inquisitive and critical thinkers. Furthermore, ...

<p>The Tromsø Old Russian and OCS Treebank (TOROT, nestor.uit.no)1 is, along with its parent treebank, the PROIEL corpus (foni.uio.no), the only existing treebank of Old Church Slavonic (OCS), Old East Slavic and Middle Russian texts. There are other tagged resources, such as the Old Russian subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus2 and the Manuskript corpus,3 but none of them, to our knowledge, ...