Gunilla Hermansson/Jens Lohfert Jørgensen: Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History
Published in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
Published in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
Published in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
The study examines gender incongruency effects during gender retrieval in L3 Swedish learners, which are due to gender misassignment in L2 German. Twenty learners of L3 Swedish who had previously acquired two gender systems; one in their L1 Polish and the other in their L2 German, completed a speeded Gender Decision Task in Swedish and an untimed G...
Published in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
Published in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
Published in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
Published in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
Published in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
This article examines the use of the narrative concept anagnorisis, or recognition, in two recent Norwegian novels, Morten Borgersen’s Jeg har arvet en mørk skog and Wencke Mühleisen’s Kanskje det ennå finns en åpen plass i verden. In both novels, the protagonist suddenly discovers their father’s secret history connected with their conduct during W...
Published in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
The analysis of space-semantic oppositions – as developed by Jurij Lotman and extended by Karl Renner and Hans Krah – plays a much greater role in analysing prose than poetry. However, the focus on spatial and temporal oppositions, the connection of topological and semantic features of subspaces, as well as possible borders and their potential cros...
Published in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
This paper examines the contribution of the Norwegian historian, politician, and ethnologist Ludvig Kristensen Daa (1809–1877) to the study of the Indigenous languages of North America. We focus on his accounts of sound systems, where he argued that North American languages are characterized by greater linguistic diversity, small consonant inventor...
Published in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies