• Bokrecension: Dörte Hansens Altes Land (Körsbärslandet) och Mittagsstunde (Middagstimmen) 

  Päplow, Thorsten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Med sin första roman Altes Land (2015)1 lyckades Dörte Hansen (*1964) övertyga både de tyska kritikerna och sina läsare. Så till den grad att boken översattes bl. a. till svenska, norska och danska inom ett resp. två år. ...

• Systematic motivation work in the language classroom - An action research study from southern Norway 

  Horverak, May Olaug; Aanensen, Mariette; Langeland, Gerd Martina; Olsbu, Inger; Päplow, Thorsten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

  This study set out to investigate how teachers can support students in developing a metacognitive language-learning strategy that increases intrinsic motivation to learn. To do so, we carried out an intervention where we ...

• Translators’ distributed selves and relational adaptability 

  Gebbia, Chiara Astrid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  The spatial metaphors adopted in sociological approaches to Translation Studies (e.g in-between and network metaphors) have mostly relegated the translator within linear topologies. If used to elicit self-narratives, ...

• Gender, Fairy Tale, and Ecology in Sarah Orne Jewett's 'A White Heron' 

  Dougherty, Stephen Darren (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  This essay situates Sarah Orne Jewett’s short story A White Heron within the related con-texts of children’s literature, the fairy tale, and crit ical ecofeminism, featuring comparative analysis of Jewett’s story and Angela ...

• „Man sagt, dass er zu lange Mittagspausen nehmen würde“: Über Zeitbezug und Akzeptanz der Fügung würde + Infinitiv als Indikator für die indirekte Rede 

  Letnes, Ole (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

  Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, mit einer Informantenbefragung als empirischer Basis, den Zeitbezug der Fügung würde + Infinitiv als Indirektheitskonjunktiv. Es wird nach möglichen Korrelationen zwischen dem Zeitbezug ...

• Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s A Postcolonial Reading 

  Rahnavard, Zabi Kohyar. (Master thesis, 2024)

  This thesis will examine the work of Amiri Baraka within the context of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, marking a period of literary nationalism that arguably redefined the course of African American ...

• Utilizing Game-Based American Simulation Pedagogy to Teach Norwegian Students American Studies 

  Mustad, Jan Erik; Johnson, Maren Anderson; Taylor, Sean (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  In Scandinavian countries, the teaching of American studies has traditionally taken place within the discipline of English. In recent years, English has moved away from the predominantly Anglo-American approach to include ...

• Teachers’ beliefs and experiences regarding collaboration across language subjects 

  Haukås, Åsta; Drange, Eli-Marie D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  In schools worldwide, there are increasing expectations for teacher collaboration across subjects. However, despite the potential benefits for students and teachers of viewing language subjects as interrelated, limited ...

• Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions 

  Gallo, Federico; Myachykov, Andriy; Aboutalebi, Jubin; Deluca, Vincent Francesco; Ellis, Jason; Rothman, Jason; Wheeldon, Linda Ruth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  Sleep and language are fundamental to human existence and have both been shown to substantially affect cognitive functioning including memory, attentional performance, and cognitive control. Surprisingly, there is little-to-no ...

• Anti-Pastoral and the Prophetic Mode in Moddi’s Climate Songs 

  Bamle, Håvard Haugland (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  This article explores aspects of apocalypse and pastoral in the climate themed song lyrics of Norwegian indie folk artist Moddi. Through close listening and contextualizing of the songs “Noens ark” (“Someone’s ark”, 2013) ...

• Writer/reader visibility in young learner writing: A study of the TRAWL corpus of lower secondary school texts. 

  Hasund, Ingrid Kristine; Hasselgård, Hilde (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

  Abstract: A pervasive finding in learner corpus research is that advanced EFL learners tend to overuse interactional features of writer/reader visibility (WRV) in their written academic texts, including first- and second-person ...

• Tag- und nachtseiten: Göteborg in E.M. Arndts "Reise durch schweden im jahr 1804" und dessen dunkle, intertextuelle erkundung in E.T.A. Hoffmanns "Die bergwerke zu falun" 

  Päplow, Thorsten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  This paper examines the intertextual relationship between E.M. Arndt’s Voyage Through Sweden in 1804 and E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Mines of Falun focusing on how the city of Gothenburg is portrayed in both texts. Many scholars ...

• The generic uniqueness of AI imagery: A critical approach to Dall-E as semiotic technology 

  Westberg, Gustav; Kvåle, Gunhild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)

  This article addresses a major change emerging in visual communication worldwide: The advent of generative AI imagery. Rooted in Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies and Semiotic Technology Studies, the article scrutinizes ...

• Heimat – Ein deutsches Familienalbum von Nora Krug 

  Päplow, Thorsten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

• L’omission de que chez les apprenants norvégiens de français langue étrangère 

  Klævik-Pettersen, Espen Johan; Wullum, Ida Marie (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Il est communément admis que, lors de l’acquisition d’une langue étrangère, l’apprenant s’appuie de façon consciente ou inconsciente sur une langue préalablement acquise, soit sa langue maternelle (L1) soit une autre langue ...

• The Components of Brainwashing in Literature: A Comparative Analysis of China Miéville's The City & The City and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 

  Skadsem, Maria (Master thesis, 2024)

  The intent of this master’s thesis is to explore the validity of the assertion that the novel The City & The City by China Miéville contains covert forms of brainwashing, which is also known as stealthy brainwashing. With ...

• Enemies, Foreign and Domestic. An exploration into the effects of the trauma of war and sexual violence depicted in Helen Benedict’s novels, "Sand Queen" and "Wolf Season". 

  Lohndal, Nina (Master thesis, 2024)

  In my thesis I wish to explore the consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by applying trauma theory in an analysis of Helen Benedict’s novels, "Sand Queen", and "Wolf Season". In these two novels, the author ...

• Languaging as Emergent Constraint-satisfying Self-organizing Activity Dialogical context-completing, context-making, and context-seeking dynamics 

  Thibault, Paul John (Journal article, 2020)

  Languaging is a manifestation of intelligent human action that enables selves to seek and to co-articulate functional fits between self and selected aspects of the self's social and cultural environments. Selves have ...

• How The Help Displays a Multidimensional Perspective in the Feminist Fight Against Oppression. 

  Kayiba - Mwamba, Ornella (Master thesis, 2024)

  This study focuses on The Help by Kathryn Stockett, one of the contemporary literary works that tackle the issues of race, class, and femininity in America. The Help is set during the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. ...

• COVID-19 Neologisms: a Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis 

  Øvernes, Miriam (Master thesis, 2024)

  The COVID-19 pandemic brought about global changes to everyday life. This thesis investigates the emergence of neologisms in the English language in response to these changes. By collecting data from social media, specialized ...

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