Vitenskapelige publikasjoner (HF-IKS)
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The decline of feminine gender: a cross-dialectal study of seven Norwegian dialects
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This paper presents a cross-dialectal study of grammatical gender in Norwegian nominal phrases. Specifically, we investigate the decline of the feminine gender in three age groups across seven different dialects. The ... -
ON THE COVER Invasive Sparrows and the American Bird Box
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)The cover image for this issue of Technology and Culture depicts how bird boxes became contested technologies in the United States. The early twentieth-century image shows a pair of house sparrows (Passer domesticus)— an ... -
Bird Boxes and Sparrow Traps: The Technological Regulation of Avian Life in the United States
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-07)Only a few decades after its introduction to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, the house sparrow was considered a pest that drove away native birds. Its downfall is representative of a story familiar to ... -
The decline of feminine possessives in Norwegian: An empirical and theoretical investigation of gender and declension class
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This paper reports results from a large cross-dialectal study, showing that feminine forms are changing in several dialects. These results suggest that the Norwegian three-gender system may be in the process of becoming a ... -
Epistemic beliefs of Norwegian history student teachers: Testing and assessing two measurement instruments
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Since teachers’ and students’ epistemic beliefs about history are believed to significantly impact teachers’ practices, students’ performance and the ability to think historically of both, investigating such beliefs is ... -
Cars, Cans, and Crying Indians: Automobility, Littering, and Indigeneity in 1970s US Environmental Literature
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)A white American man hurls a bag of litter out of a speeding car. It explodes at the feet of Iron Eyes Cody, “America’s most famous Native American” (Andersen 403), standing next to a bustling interstate highway, and he ... -
Rhetorics of Species Revivalism and Biotechnology – A Roundtable Dialogue
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This informal dialogue contextualises and explores contemporary practices of nonhuman animal gene modification in de-extinction projects. Looking at recent developments in biotechnology’s role in de extinction sciences and ... -
Manual and Electrical Energies in the Visualisation of “Electrical Calcutta”, c. 1890-1925
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-04)Through examinations of domestic servants in electrical advertisements and writings this article looks at the imaginations and realities of visions of an “Electrical Calcutta” at the turn of the twentieth century. It argues ... -
Shifting Narratives of Electricity and Energy in Periods of Transition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This special issue aims at providing nuanced and multi-layered understandings of historical choices regarding, and perceptions of, electric supply and electrical technologies, by taking into consideration diverse groups, ... -
Definiteness marking in American Norwegian: a unique pattern among the Scandinavian languages
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-12)This paper examines definiteness marking in American Norwegian (AmNo), a heritage variety of Norwegian spoken in the US. The description adds another language to the much-studied variation within Scandinavian nominal ... -
(Den) eneste måten - When the prenominal determiner can be omitted from Norwegian double definite phrases
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-06)Norwegian, like Swedish and Faroese, exhibits double definiteness: modified definite phrases normally contain both a prenominal determiner and a suffixed definite article on the noun. However, exceptions—phrases with only ... -
Discipline-specific attitudinal differences of EMI students towards translanguaging
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study examines discipline-specific attitudinal differences in translanguaging when studying through English Medium Instruction following a mixed methods research design. The quantitative data for this study came from ... -
Education Outside the Classroom in Norway: The prevalence, provision, and nature of uteskole
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This article presents data from a national survey on the prevalence, provision, and nature of education outside the classroom (“uteskole”) in Norway. Uteskole can broadly be defined as the practice of relocating traditional ... -
Uppbyggjingi av Fagrskinna B og sunnmørsættleggene
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Den handskrifti som hev vorte kjend som B-handskrifti av Fagrskinna (Fsk B), gjekk tapt i bybranden i København i 1728. Likevel fanst det gode avskrifter av handskrifti, og attåt hev me varveitt eit brotstykke av eit blad ... -
Hva er eksistensielle spørsmål og svar – i skolen?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Læreplanene fra 2020 i Kristendom, religion, livssyn og etikk (KRLE) og Religion og etikk (RE) har «utforsking av eksistensielle spørsmål og svar» som et av kjerneelementene, og denne artikkelen diskuterer hvordan ... -
"My Beard Is My Own": Herman Melville’s Beard Poetics In His Narratives Of Maritime Masculinity.
(Journal article, 2023)This article celebrates the vital role of the beard in Herman Melville’s narratives of maritime masculinity. While the limited commentary on the beard has thus far focused on the hair on Melville’s face, this article shifts ... -
«Lutefiskens lengsel mot havet». Profil-forfattarane sin bruk av humor i kampen om det litterære feltet
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In this article, I investigate works of fiction by three prominent authors affiliated with the zeitschrift Profil in the 1960s: Dag Solstad, Einar Økland and Jan Erik Vold. The texts I focus on, are all humorous, and this ... -
“Building Roots”—Developing Agency, Competence, and a Sense of Belonging through Education outside the Classroom
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study investigates how Education Outside the Classroom (EOtC) was used to support the students’ basic psychological needs, i.e., their need for competence, autonomy, and relatedness as described in Self-Determination ... -
Spinning a Yarn: Mythic Storytelling in Isabel Armstrong's One Hundred Nights of Hero and Neil Gaiman's The Sleeper and the Spindle
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Narrative is everywhere. We shape narratives based on our lives, and our lives are similarly shaped by the narratives that we mirror ourselves in. As noted by Peter Brooks in his seminal study Reading the Plot, however, ... -
Emplacement and Narrative Identity in Tomas Bannerhed’s "Korparna"
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In Tomas Bannerhed’s Korparna (The Ravens, 2011), birds and trees not only function as backdrop and setting but contribute toward forming the characters’ narrative identities and sense of place. As this is partly based on ...
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