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• Kemenade, Ans van & Nilsen, Christine Meklenborg (2021). Issues in the Left Periphery of Old English and Old French. Topic types and the V2 constraint., In Sam Wolfe & Christine Meklenborg Nilsen (ed.),  Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance.  Oxford University Press.  ISBN 9780198841166.  Kapittel.  s 248 - 274
• Nilsen, Christine Meklenborg; Helland, Hans Petter & Lohndal, Terje (2021). Topics in French and Norwegian, In Sam Wolfe & Christine Meklenborg Nilsen (ed.),  Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance.  Oxford University Press.  ISBN 9780198841166.  Kapittel.  s 223 - 247
• Wolfe, Sam & Nilsen, Christine Meklenborg (2021). Germanic and Romance: Data, method, and theory., In Sam Wolfe & Christine Meklenborg Nilsen (ed.),  Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance.  Oxford University Press.  ISBN 9780198841166.  Kapittel 1.  s 1 - 12
• Llosa Sanz, Álvaro (2021). Un chevalier errant à la recherche du Nord. Le boréalisme dans Don Quichotte de Cervantes. Etudes germaniques.  ISSN 0014-2115.  76
• Nilsen, Christine Meklenborg (2021). Merged and Moved. Topics in Old and Middle French. Journal of Historical Syntax.  ISSN 2163-6001.  5(16-25), s 1- 49 . doi: https://doi.org/10.18148/hs/2021.v5i16-25.72
• Pianzola, Federico; Riva, Giuseppe; Kukkonen, Karin & Mantovani, Fabrizia (2021). Presence, flow, and narrative absorption: an interdisciplinary theoretical exploration with a new spatiotemporal integrated model based on predictive processing. Open Science Europe.  ISSN 2732-5121.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2021). To score or to score a goal? Transitivity in football match reports. English Studies: A Journal of English Language.  ISSN 0013-838X.  102(2) . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2021.1886676
• Saric, Ljiljana (2021). Secondary predicates. Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics.  ISSN 2589-6229.
• Saric, Ljiljana (2021). Prepositions. Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics.  ISSN 2589-6229.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell & Hasselgård, Hilde (2021). The Functions of N-Grams in Bilingual and Learner Corpora: An Integrated Contrastive Approach, In Sylviane Granger (ed.),  Perspectives on the L2 Phrasicon: The View from Learner Corpora.  Multilingual Matters.  ISBN 9781788924856.  chapter 2.
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2021). Seasons of Migration to the North: Borders and Images in Migration Narratives Published in Norwegian, In Johan Henrik Schimanski & Jopi Nyman (ed.),  Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings.  Manchester University Press.  ISBN 978-1-5261-4626-7.  Chapter 10.  s 206 - 224 Show summary

  This chapter brings together the concerns of border aesthetics and ‘post-national’ imagology. Setting out to map images of Northernness in contemporary migrant literature that features viewpoints originating from the global ‘South’, it discusses the border processes implied by stereotypical images of the other and of the self. It addresses a number of fictional or autobiographical public narratives written in Norwegian by migrants arriving in Norway as children or young adults, including testimonial narratives by the child refugee Amal Aden and ‘illegal’ migrant Maria Amelie, along with semi-autobiographical novels by Romeo Gill and Sara Azmeh Rasmussen. Migrant narratives negotiate discourses of arcticity, winterliness, nordicity etc., known from imagological research on Northernness. The chapter asks to what degree various topoi of Northernness contribute to the bordering processes in the texts, or whether these narratives produce new images of Northernness and new vocabularies for addressing the border-crossing. The narratives deploy chiastic switchings between North and South, circling disorientations, entropic white-outs and liberating and destructive verticalities in order to figure the border in new ways at different points of their physical and symbolic journeys. The ambivalence of these images shows that they are related not merely to borders but also to the epistemological borders negotiated.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Nyman, Jopi (2021). Border Images and Narratives: Paradoxes, Spheres, Aesthetics, In Johan Henrik Schimanski & Jopi Nyman (ed.),  Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings.  Manchester University Press.  ISBN 978-1-5261-4626-7.  Epilogue.  s 242 - 251 Show summary

  This chapter written by the editors examines how the individual contributions to this volume answer the book’s three basic questions about different aesthetic strategies, how they enable crossings from private experience into the public sphere, and the various paradoxes they involve. The ways in which they answer these questions connect the different chapters with each other. Here the editors also suggest possible ways forward for future research, or themes that need a closer focus. It is argued that, in addition to the need to broaden the focus to other forms of aesthetic experience than those prototypically characterised as ‘images’ and ‘narratives’, it is crucial to examine in more detail how border images and narratives act in the world, focus on the temporalities of such images and narratives, and also explore their emotional dimensions.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Nyman, Jopi (2021). Images and Narratives on the Border, In Johan Henrik Schimanski & Jopi Nyman (ed.),  Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings.  Manchester University Press.  ISBN 978-1-5261-4626-7.  Introduction.  s 1 - 20 Show summary

  This introduction addresses the role of the aesthetic forms such as narratives and images for politics of the border on the basis of the work of the philosopher Jacques Rancière. It also suggests that stories of the border are means for negotiating identity in the borderscape, the site where border-crossings and bordering processes take place, generating new belongings and becomings, as the border theorist Chiara Brambilla argues. Providing a shared basis for the interdisciplinary volume, the introduction asks three key questions that concern (1) the role of the form, medium, aesthetical strategies in (trans)forming the borderscape, (2) their entry into the public sphere and diverse functions in border discourses and (3) their role in making visible and giving voice to diverse experiences of the borderscape, including those of migrants and other minorities. The introduction also reviews the case studies collected in the volume.

• Stephens, Randall J. (2021). Seeing Red: Evangelical and Fundamentalist Anticommunism and Political Engagement, In Andrew S. Moore (ed.),  Evangelicals and Presidential Politics: From Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump.  Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press).  ISBN 0807174343.  chapter 1.  s 12 - 35
• Santos, Diana (2021). Explorando o vestuário na literatura em português. TradTerm.  ISSN 0104-639X.  37(2), s 622- 643 . doi: https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9511.v37i0p622-643 Full text in Research Archive.
• Saric, Ljiljana & Nedelcheva, Svetlana (2021). The semantic profile of the verbal prefix do- in Bulgarian and Croatian. Словѣне.  ISSN 2304-0785.
• Saric, Ljiljana & Nedelcheva, Svetlana (2021). Translating deictic motion verbs among Bulgarian, Croatian and Serbian: a corpus-based study. The Russian Journal of Linguistics.  ISSN 2312-9182.
• Saric, Ljiljana (2021). Metaphor and National Identity. Alternative Conceptualization of the Treaty of Trianon. Metaphor and the Social World.  ISSN 2210-4070.
• McWilliams, Stuart (2021). Morbid Solidarity: Remains, Afterlives, and the Commune of Saints, In David Matthews & Michael Sanders (ed.),  Subaltern Medievalisms: Medievalism 'from below' in Nineteenth-Century Britain.  Boydell & Brewer.  ISBN 9781843845782.  Chapter 9.  s 160 - 174
• Locane, Jorge Joaquín (2021). Literatura comunista mundial. Jorge Amado en la República Democrática Alemana y China, I: Benjamin Loy; Gustavo Guerrero & Gesine Muller (red.),  World Editors. Dynamics of Global Publishing and the Latin American Case between the Archive and the Digital Age.  Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter).  ISBN 978-3-11-071300-8.  Chapter II.5.  s 191 - 208 Full text in Research Archive.
• Mota, Cristina; Santos, Diana & Barreiro, Anabela (2021). Paraphrasing Emotions in Portuguese, In B. Bekavak; Kristina Kocijan; K. Sojat & Max Silberztein (ed.),  Formalizing Natural Languages with NooJ 2020 and Its Natural Language Processing Applications: Revised Selected Papers.  Springer Berlin/Heidelberg.  ISBN 978-3-030-38833-1.  3.
• Grøtta, Marit (2021). Showing Seeing: The Study of Faces and Portrait Photographs in Virginia Woolf’s Early Novels (forthcoming). Journal of Modern Literature.  ISSN 0022-281X.
• Grøtta, Marit (2021). At the Door of the Theater: Kafka’s Oklahama Theater and the Nature Theater Movement. New German Critique.  ISSN 0094-033X.  48(1 (142)), s 103- 123 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8809371
• Durand, Jacques & Lyche, Chantal (2020). Quelles données pour l'enseignement du schwa? De Passy au programme Phonologie du francais contemporain (PFC).. Synergies Pays Scandinaves.  ISSN 1901-3809.  15, s 13- 24
• Rohava, Maryia (2020). The politics of state celebrations in Belarus. Nations and Nationalism.  ISSN 1354-5078.  26(4), s 883- 901 . doi: 10.1111/nana.12653 Full text in Research Archive.
• Rohava, Maryia & Burkhardt, Fabian (2020). 'Diktatur ist unser Markenzeichen' Belarus: Machtvertikale vs. horizontale Gesellschaft. Osteuropa: Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens.  ISSN 0030-6428.  70(10-11), s 127- 146 . doi: 10.35998/OE-2020-0069 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  For a long time, Belarus was considered an exemplary case of a stable authoritarian regime. For 26 years, the country has been ruled by Aliaksandr Lukashenka. The central organisational principle of the ruling elite is a single-pyramid network, with Lukashenka at the top. From this position, he was able to prevent rival factions from gaining access to power resources. Despite a major political crisis in the country and ongoing protests after the disputed presidential election in August 2020, Lukashenka has maintained control of the security organs and state institutions, but the crisis will become permanent. Although the authorities have succeeded in preventing the institutionalisation of the opposition inside the country, the mobilisation of society with its horizontal networks is continuing. For the Lukashenka regime, there is no going back, since any legitimacy it had claimed on the basis of the country’s performance capacity and the elections has now been quashed. Popular support of the autocrat and international recognition have been lost. As a result, the most important supporting pillars of Belarusian authoritarianism are starting to show cracks.

• Barnhart, Bruce (2020). LeRoi Jones, Jazz, and the Resonance of Class, In Ian Peddie (ed.),  The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class.  Bloomsbury Academic.  ISBN 978-1-5013-4536-4.  Chapter 16.  s 335 - 352
• Barnhart, Bruce (2020). National Time, Literary Form, and Exclusion: The United States in the 1920s, In Mark Luccarelli; Rosario Forlenza & Steven Colatrella (ed.),  Bringing the Nation Back In: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and the Struggle to Define a New Politics.  SUNY Press.  ISBN 9781438477732.  Chapter 6.  s 107 - 126
• Grimstad, Knut Andreas (2020). Niemożliwa autentyczność i bycie ‘pomiędzy.’ Wygnańcza powieść Gombrowicza w Norwegii., I: Magdalena Popiel; Michal Bilczewski & Stanley Bill (red.),  Światowa historia literatury polskiej. Interpretacje..  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego.  ISBN 978-83-233-4837-5.  Kapittel 21.  s 433 - 450

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• Burgess, Richard; Villanueva, Maria Casado; Dypedahl, Magne; Hasselgård, Hilde & Skretteberg, Tom Arne (2021). Interactions 1. Cappelen Damm AS.  ISBN 9788202686901.  376 s.
• Wolfe, Sam & Nilsen, Christine Meklenborg (ed.) (2021). Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance. Oxford University Press.  ISBN 9780198841166.  606 s.
• Llosa Sanz, Álvaro & Muniz, Iris (red.) (2021). Vientos del norte: Lo nórdico y lo hispánico en diálogo. Asociación Cultural Impossibilia.  ISBN 000-00-0-000000-0.  150 s.
• Nissen, Nils Axel (2021). Beulah Bondi: A Life on Stage and Screen. McFarland.  ISBN 9781476681887.  251 s.
• Fulsås, Narve & Rem, Tore (ed.) (2021). Ibsen in Cotext. Cambridge University Press.  ISBN 978-1-108-42220-8.  302 s.
• Ryall, Anka & Rønning, Anne Birgitte (ed.) (2021). Gender in Literary Exchange. Routledge.  ISBN 978-0-367-71495-6.  114 s. Show summary

  First published in NORA 25/4, 2017.

• Spring, Ulrike; Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Aarbakke, Thea (ed.) (2021). Transforming author museums From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs. Berghahn Books.  ISBN 978-1-80073-243-8.  376 s.
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Nyman, Jopi (ed.) (2021). Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings. Manchester University Press.  ISBN 978-1-5261-4626-7.  280 s. Show summary

  This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced scholars in the field, Border images, border narratives provides fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural representations of borders and related processes. Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques Rancière, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social anthropology, media studies, and political geography.

• Allott, Nicholas Elwyn; Lohndal, Terje & Rey, Georges (ed.) (2021). A Companion to Chomsky. John Wiley & Sons.  ISBN 9781119598701.
• Rem, Tore; Danielsen, Kristin Auestad; Hjort, Vigdis; Aakre, Tiril Broch & Kielland, Alexander L. (2020). Samvittighetskvaler. Kielland på ny. Pelikanen forlag.  ISBN 978-8283-83077-4.  86 s.
• Rem, Tore (2020). Olav V. Den fremmede. Cappelen Damm AS.  ISBN 978-82-02-47597-0.  618 s.
• Rem, Tore; Fløgstad, Kjartan & Søbye, Espen (2020). På æren løs. Krigen, litteraturen og Æresretten. Forlaget Press.  ISBN 978-82-328-0333-0.  392 s.

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• Kitchen-Døderlein, Deborah Lynn; Johnsen, Nilas Chaim & Foss, Amund Bakke (2021, 18. januar). Slik kan riksrett forsinke Biden-starten: En Verkebyll.  VG.
• Kitchen-Døderlein, Deborah Lynn; Johnsen, Nilas Chaim & Foss, Amund Bakke (2021, 17. januar). Arven Etter Trump: Utenrikspolitiske snubletråder.  VG.
• Kitchen-Døderlein, Deborah Lynn (2021). Intertwining Gender and Race in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
• Kitchen-Døderlein, Deborah Lynn (2021). Changing Hearts about Race Via 1970s American TV.
• Sabbatini, Sergio (2021). "Ma Lei lo sa l'italiano?" Un professore a Oslo. Treccani magazine. . doi: https://www.treccani.it/magazine/lingua_italiana/speciali/Scuole_stranieri/03_Sabbatini.html
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2021). Seien Sie wilkommen! [video 3'30"].
• Spring, Ulrike; Schimanski, Johan Henrik; Dachsberger, Roman & Thaler, Tobias (2021). Gefangen im ewigem Eis: Aufbruch zum Nordpol.
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2021). Von der Isolation in der Arktis zum Spektakel in Wien, I: Marcel Chahrour; Theresa Höfler; Birgit Schretzmayer & Andrea Tavčar-Schaller (red.),  Sehnsucht Ferne – Aufbruch in neue Welten.  Schallaburg, Schallaburg Kulturbetriebsges.m.b.H..  ISBN 0000000000000.  Exkurs.  s 238 - 243
• Kolstø, Pål (2021). Weiss-Wendt, Anton. Putin‘s Russia and the falsification of history: reasserting control over the past. Bloomsbury Academic 2021. Anmeldelse. Slavonic and East European Review.  ISSN 0037-6795.  99(2), s 378- 380
• Bech, Kristin (2021, 27. april). "En helt (u)alminnelig akademiker". Portrettintervju i Apollon. [Tidsskrift].  Apollon.
• Dörnbrack, Nora (2021). Multilingual practices in British women’s private correspondence.
• Uvsløkk, Geir & Orban, Franck (2021, 14. mars). Hvor fri er fransk presse? Med Mikael Holter. [Internett].  Podkasten Frankrike forklart. Show summary

  I denne episoden av "Frankrike forklart" ser vi nærmere på pressen i Frankrike. Hva kjennetegner franske aviser lokalt og nasjonalt hva angår form, innhold, redaksjonell frihet og eierskap? Skiller franske aviser seg fra norske når det gjelder hvilke temaer som kan tas opp og hvordan de dekkes? Med oss har vi Mikael Holter, journalist i Dagens Nærlingsliv.

• Dörnbrack, Nora (2021). Longitudinal variation in verb inflection in the writings of the Scottish migrant Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald (1762-1841).
• Dörnbrack, Nora (2021). Longitudinal variation in verb inflection in Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald’s writings.
• Lundblad, Michael (2021). Animality/ Posthumanism/ Disability.
• Lishaugen, Roar (2021). Synes du fire kasus er i minste laget? Tsjekkisk gir deg sju!.
• Dörnbrack, Nora (2021). Tracing language contact and multilingual resources in the writings of three nineteenth-century women migrants.
• Lundblad, Michael (2021). Hold the Door: Companion Prosthetics in Game of Thrones.
• Guth, Stephan & Kukkonen, Karin (2021, 04. mars). The Literature of the Middle East. [Internett].  LCE Podcast. Show summary

  Stephan Guth, Professor of Middle East Studies, talks to Karin Kukkonen about the Arab novel in the context of social and political reform in Middle East countries. He explains how reading novels could “teach” people how to feel in modern society, why historical romance novels were considered useful entertainment in the 19th century, and discusses the function of emotional storytelling in the Middle East’s confrontation with Europe.

• Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2021). Forsøpler vi språket med uttrykk som «på en måte»?. Forskning.no.  ISSN 1891-635X.
• Nissen, Nils Axel (2021). Finally Close Enough?: Close Reading Literature in the Zoom Classroom.
• Kukkonen, Karin & Buer, Liz (2021, 01. februar). Interview: Litteratur gir støtte og trøst.. [Fagblad].  Psykisk Helse.
• Thormodsæter, Øyvind (2021). The idiomaticity of emotion in English and Norwegian: A corpus-based contrastive investigation of the phraseology of the three English-Norwegian verb pairs enjoy-nyte, love-elske and like-like.. Show summary

  Expressing feelings is a part of our everyday human experience, yet, describing our emotions accurately can be challenging, as it requires not only the ability to encode or decode the meaning of words and phrases, but also knowledge about the unwritten social codes and cultural norms that govern the use of such expressions. Expressing feelings accurately in a foreign language is therefore doubly demanding, since the speaker may be influenced by the codes and norms of their own speech community, as well as the lexicon and grammar of their first language. The current study reports on a corpus-based contrastive analysis of the phraseology of the three English-Norwegian emotion verb pairs enjoy-nyte, love-elske and like-like, as well as the level of correspondence between the English and Norwegian verbs. Furthermore, it investigates differences and similarities between English native and Norwegian learner use of the English verbs, and discusses whether any differences found are likely to be tied to the cross-linguistic differences between the English and Norwegian verbs. The analysis showed that the Norwegian member of each pair more consistently expresses a strong(er) emotion than the English one, that elske and love both seem to be used more and more frequently in a delexicalised sense with non-personal direct objects, and that while like and like are cross-linguistically quite similar, enjoy and nyte have markedly different lexicogrammatical features. These and other cross-linguistic differences are corroborated by differences between Norwegian learner and English native speaker use of the English verbs, e.g. overuse of amplifiers, use of stronger amplifiers, overuse of syntactic patterns favoured by the Norwegian verbs, e.g. V + Infinitive, and underuse or unidiomatic use of patterns with no lexicogrammatically congruent pattern in Norwegian, such as Would like/love to, the X enjoyed by X or enjoy oneself.

• Kukkonen, Karin (2021). Review of Improbability, Chance and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel by Adam Grener.. Review19.
• Bech, Kristin (2021). Noun phrases in Old Germanic languages.
• Flikke, Geir (2021). Demokrati og diktatur -- en debatt om Carl Henrik Knudsens bok.
• Janss, Christian (2021). "Ferdinand v. Schirach: Kaffe og sigaretter" Oslo: Gyldendal, 2020. Anmeldelse av Sverre Dahls oversettelse. Dag og Tid.  ISSN 0803-334X.  60(5)
• Bech, Kristin (2021, 01. februar). Historien til Oxford English Dictionary. [Radio].  Studio 2, P2.
• Lishaugen, Roar (2021). Tsjekkisk: pravdoláskař.
• Janss, Christian (2021). Tysk: Unbegreiflichkeit.
• Santos, Diana (2021). Portugisisk: passar.
• Bech, Kristin (2021). Norsk: nokon, noen.
• Bech, Kristin (2021). Tapt rikdom.
• Bech, Kristin (2021). Hindi: rimjhim.
• Bech, Kristin & Nedelius, Sabina (2021). Engelsk: mistakable.
• Bech, Kristin (2021). Ordfestivalens språkutstilling.
• Flikke, Geir (2021). Russland -- et samfunn i bevegelse?.
• Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell (2021). Oslo Multilingual Corpus i Glossa.
• Lothe, Jakob (2021, 09. januar). Språk. Sannhet. Makt. Boka fra 1948 er like relevant i dag. [Intervju ved Gerd Elin Sandve].  Dagsavisen.
• Lundblad, Michael (2021). Mobberen og tilskuerne. Klassekampen.  ISSN 0805-3839.  s 20- 21
• Kitchen-Døderlein, Deborah Lynn (2021). Melanie S. Morrison, Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018). ISBN: 9780822371175. History: The Journal of the Historical Association.  ISSN 0018-2648. . doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13125
• Kitchen-Døderlein, Deborah Lynn (2020). Historical Truths vs. Facts in Representations of Race: Hidden Figures.
• Rem, Tore (2020). Beklagelsens forhistorier og kritikkens ansvar. Vinduet.  ISSN 0042-6288.  (3)
• Rem, Tore (2020). Om å dømme da og nå. Prosa - tidsskrift for skribenter.  ISSN 0805-276X.  (6)
• Rem, Tore (2020). Medaljens bakside, I:  Samvittighetskvaler. Kielland på ny.  Pelikanen forlag.  ISBN 978-8283-83077-4.  Forord.  s 9 - 24
• Cicin-Sain, Visnja (2020). Review of Berrocal & Salamurović (2019): Political Discourse in Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe. Journal of Language and Politics.  ISSN 1569-2159.  19(5), s 861- 864 . doi: 10.1075/jlp.20008.cic
• Slezkine, Yuri; Krastev, Ivan; Aust, Martin; Sowa, Jan; Enyuan, Wu; Lieven, Anatol; Ushakin, Sergey; Sakwa, Richard; Kolstø, Pål; Kasyanov, Georgy; Xiaoli, Guo; Smolar, Aleksander; Hilbrenner, Anke; Iskandaryan, Alexander; Robinson, Paul; Lankov, Andrei; Xian, Lanxin & Miller, Alexei (2020). Victimhood olympics. Russia in Global Affairs.  ISSN 1810-6374.  18(4), s 62- 99 . doi: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-62-99
• Johansen, Stine Hulleberg (2020). “I just need to like see what I can do” – A contrastive study of hedging strategies in English and Norwegian informal spoken conversations. Show summary

  Hedging strategies are ubiquitous in both spoken and written discourse in most, if not all, languages. By hedging, speakers guide their hearers in the interpretation of what is said. Speakers may signal caution or tentativeness, or soften or disarm their utterances. However, the forms and types of hedging vary across languages, which makes hedging particularly interesting for contrastive studies. This thesis reports on a contrastive study of hedging strategies in Norwegian and English informal conversations. Situated in the emerging field of corpus pragmatics, it aims to contribute to current knowledge of how hedging is expressed in Norwegian and English. By means of a partly function-to-form approach, hedging strategies were retrieved from Norwegian and English corpora of spoken conversations and the forms and types of strategies were compared. The comparison highlighted some interesting cross-linguistic differences. For example, English speakers used more strategies that reduce the commitment of the speaker towards the message, whereas Norwegian speakers used more strategies that seek to create common ground between the speaker and the hearer. The comparison of forms used to express hedging strategies revealed that English speakers used more first/second person pronoun + cognitive verb, such as I think and you know, than Norwegian speakers, while Norwegians used more vague and downtoning adjectives such as sånn (‘such’) and lille (‘little’). Such cross-linguistic differences could potentially cause problems for language learners. Therefore, the 10 most frequent forms in the English material were investigated in a corpus of spoken English by Norwegian advanced learners and a comparable corpus of native English speakers. The results showed that although Norwegian advanced learners exhibited signs of underuse at group level, a closer look at the individual variation revealed that the performance of several learners resembled that of some of the native speakers.

• Stephens, Randall J. (2020). "Pop Jesus and Rock ‘n’ Roll in Britain and America in the 1960s and 1970s." American Society of Church History, New York City. Show summary

  In the summer of 1966, amid a scandal about The Beatles’ popularity compared with that of Jesus and Christianity, John Lennon tried to clarify what he meant. He was just making an observation, not a judgment, he pleaded. He also noticed other trends in the church that seemed to confirm that believers wanted to reach out to youth. "Even church people are trying to be with it," he said at a press conference, "with sort of pop groups and things." Indeed, by the mid-1960s and into the 1970s American and British evangelicals and mainline Protestants, as well as Catholics, embarked on new missions to young people. They sponsored rock and folk bands at Christian coffeehouses. They created new record labels, and radio shows for what was being called "Jesus rock." And they enlivened their services with drums, electric guitars, and shouting singers. Stalwarts reported on the activities of brethren across the Atlantic and gained ideas from each other about innovation and musical exploration. British efforts—sponsored by Anglicans and non-conformists—preceded American experimentation with pop music and pop culture. But by the late 1960s, American fusions of evangelicalism and rock helped define a new countercultural Christianity. This paper will explore how religious groups hoped to bridge the generation gap in the 60s and 70s. It will also look at the ministerial and musical cooperation that developed between Brits and Americans, asking how promoters, fans, and musicians differed in their political, theological, and cultural orientation. Finally, it will judge the relative success and failures of these efforts amid the troubles of post-Christian Britain and the religious successes of evangelical America.

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