Mo i Rana er en nordnorsk industriby som spesielt på 1900-tallet gikk gjennom store samfunnsmessige endringer og dermed også en stor økning i folketallet, noe som igjen har påvirket talemålet. I denne masteroppgaven undersøker jeg hvilke dialektendringstendenser som kan spores i Mo i Rana-dialekten fra 1960-tallet og fram til i dag. For å besvare problemstillingen har jeg analysert korpusdata fra ...

Violence is not outside the limits of representation; it remains intertwined in its very textual fabric. This thesis investigates the inherent violence of representation in Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Hand Poems by Michael Ondaatje. The thesis’ main objective is to compare the thematic violence in the text to ...

Der Beitrag handelt davon, wie Steffens sein Interesse an chemischen Prozessen in der Natur mit zeitlichen Prozessen in der Geologie zusammenbringt. Durch die Fokussierung chemischer Prozesse gelingt es ihm – so die These – die Prozessualität organischer und anorganischer Erscheinungen nachzuweisen und dadurch sein Projekt einer „innern Naturgeschichte der Erde“, die sowohl Anorganisches als Organisches ...

Purpose - The purpose of the paper is to analyze how the Neo-documentalist movement, initiated in 1996 by Michael Buckland, Boyd Rayward and Niels Lund, has evolved in its 27 years history, how the choice of documentation as name of the new program in Tromsø has made a difference in the LIS field and how different documentation scholars around the world has participated and approached the movement ...

Twenty-first century novels increasingly portray twentieth-century histories of violence in a way that implicates readers: as keepers of public memory, as complicit in ongoing political violence, and even as potential perpetrators. These novels target a global readership and treat the recollections of past atrocities and the prevention of future ones as a global responsibility. This essay describes ...

The current study investigated the effects of metacognitive and executive function (EF) training on childhood EF (inhibition, working memory [WM], cognitive flexibility, and proactive/reactive control) and academic skills (reading, reasoning, and math) among children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Children (N = 134, Mage = 8.70 years) were assigned randomly to the three training groups: (a) ...

Noko som slår ein som les Therese Tungen sine noveller, er alle analepsane, altså tilbakeblikk eller retrospeksjonar i tekstane.i I dei to samlingane Ein gong var dei ulvar (2017) og Kjærleik og det som liknar (2019) vender narrasjonen, det vil seie tekstforteljaren, stadig attende til fortidige hendingar, samtaler, møte og livsfasar i karakterane si fortid for å rekonsteksualisere refleksjonar, val ...

Markedness is the observation of an encoding asymmetry in which higher complexity (both in terms of form and meaning) tends to pattern with lower frequency. Given that markedness focuses on the relationships between form-meaning patterns and usage patterns, markedness is of inherent theoretical interest for cognitive linguistics. Traditionally it is assumed that the markedness values of Russian ...

This article gives an overview of the GiellaLT infrastructure, the main parts of it, and how it has been and can be used to support a large number of indigenous and minority languages, from keyboards to speech technology and advanced proofing tools. A special focus is given to languages with few or non-existing digital resources, and it is shown that many tools useful to the daily digital life of ...