Scientific Publications in Foreign Languages and Translation
Recent Submissions
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The generic uniqueness of AI imagery: A critical approach to Dall-E as semiotic technology
(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
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L’omission de que chez les apprenants norvégiens de français langue étrangère
(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 ... -
Languaging as Emergent Constraint-satisfying Self-organizing Activity Dialogical context-completing, context-making, and context-seeking dynamics
(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 ... -
Migrasjon som undergang og nyskaping. Señales que precederán al fin del mundo av Yuri Herrera.
(Chapter, 2022)Dette kapitlet tar for seg migrasjons- og identitetstematikk i Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (2009) av Yuri Herrera. Forfatterens bruk av mytisk materiale innebærer en forflytning fra et nasjonalt, ontologisk ... -
The Magic of Sound and Colour. Multimodality in Eleanor Farjeon’s Martin Pippin Books and their translations into Polish
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Eleanor Farjeon belonged to the most popular British authors writing for children in the first decades of the 20th century. However, very few of her stories have occurred in translation. There exist no translations of her ... -
Translator learners' strategies in local and textual metaphors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Introduction: Metaphor is more than understanding and expressing an abstract concept in terms of a concrete one. Pre-linguistically, it is the conceptual creativity that resides in the entities yet to be expressed. ... -
Sacred Ground : Orthodoxy, Poetry and Religious Change
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What Would Preacher Do? Tactics of Blasphemy in the Strategies of Satire and Parody
(Chapter, 2023)Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s sixty-six-issue graphic novel series Preacher is blasphemous. Scream it from the rooftops, post it behind a sputtering red Cessna on an aerial advertising banner, and be sure to mention it ... -
The role of the conservative learner in the rise and fall of verb-second
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper argues that the diachronic rise and fall of verb-second grammars is tied to the conservative nature of child structure projection and movement postulation, within a Minimalist syntax. For the rise of V2, we ... -
The Force of Environmental Lyrics in Pop Songs: The Case of Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article examines how compositional and performative strategies impact the potency of environmental song lyrics on Gorillaz’s album Plastic Beach. The quality of songfulness is implicated as a primary obstacle to lyrical ... -
Spoken word production in Norwegian-English bilinguals Investigating effects of bilingual profile and articulatory divergence
(Doctoral Dissertations at the University of Agder;443, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis investigates the effects of individual differences in bilingual profile and articulatory divergence on bilingual spoken word production. During bilingual word production both languages are to some degree active, ... -
Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy
(Book, 2023)Modernism and Religion argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over ... -
Orthographic precision for word naming in skilled readers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Perfetti (2007) proposed that the quality of lexical representations affects reading. We investigated the role of lexical quality in decoding. Eighty-four adults read aloud words and pseudowords with dense and sparse ... -
Worlds and Readers: Augmented Reality in Modern Polaxis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article presents a close reading of the augmented reality (AR) comic Modern Polaxis, which was created by Stuart Campbell. Possible Worlds Theory was applied to discuss how fiction, which creates its own possible ... -
Modulation in alpha band activity reflects syntax composition: an MEG study of minimal syntactic binding
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Successful sentence comprehension requires the binding, or composition, of multiple words into larger structures to establish meaning. Using magnetoencephalography, we investigated the neural mechanisms involved in binding ... -
Writing in German as a foreign language in Norwegian upper secondary school: An investigation of patterns of language choices for meaning-making
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The main objective of this article is to identify and describe characteristic patterns of language choices in texts written by Norwegian upper secondary school students of German as a foreign language (GFL) (age 16/17, ... -
The World of George Grosz’s Pictures and the World Depicted in The Novel Pokora by Szczepan Twardoch
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)“My drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment […] I drew soldiers without noses; war cripples with crustacean-like steel arms” – so stated George Grosz in a refl ection on his art. This quotation expresses ...