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- Ågerup, Karl, 1972-
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L'esthétique didactique de Yasmina Khadra
- 2011
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Based on three novels by the contemporary Algerian novelist Yasmina Khadra, the study discusses didactic and aesthetic features of the literary text. While essentially set in the Arab world, Khadra’s fiction links to western encyclopaedia and journalistic discourse. In relating to this part of the reader’s experience, the novels produce an impression of proximity to the peripheral real, and a sense of responsibility. It is suggested that this interdiscursivity be viewed not as a deviation from literature but as inherent to literary discourse itself; the text comments and constitutes simultaneously. Emphasising the hybridity of literary means and didactical drive, the study proposes that Khadra’s work be labelled “didafiction”.
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- Johansson Wilén, Evelina, 1985-, et al.
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Ideologikritikens återkomst
- 2021
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Ingår i: Evelina Johansson Wilén, Tomas Wedin och Carl Wilén (red.), Ideologikritik. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144139883 ; , s. 17-44
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Sandberg, Linn, 1983-, et al.
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Bouncing off Ove : Old men's readings of the novel A Man Called Ove as a cultural representation of ageing masculinity
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Aging Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0890-4065 .- 1879-193X. ; 63
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, there has been a rise in portrayals of greying protagonists in popular fiction, often featuring older people in humorous and heart-warming stories. An emerging genre within this literature is the “geezer and grump lit”, a genre where older people are active protagonists, and while often portrayed as grumpy “’usually turn out to have a heart of gold’” (Swinnen, 2019). A notable example of a book in this genre is the internationally bestselling novel A Man Called Ove (2012) by the Swedish author Fredrik Backman. Telling the story of the 59-year-old Ove who sets out to take his own life, the novel can be understood not only as a cultural representation of ageing, but more specifically a cultural representation of ageing masculinity. But how is this popular novel read and responded to by old men themselves? This article builds on a focus group study with Swedish men aged 65–92 who read and discussed A Man Called Ove. The aim of this article is thus to explore how men read the novel and how these readings function as ways of constructing, negotiating and challenging ageing masculinity and the old man as a gendered and aged position. Findings of the study show how discussion of the novel generated a variety of “imaginary positions” through which the participants made sense of what it means to be an old man in contemporary Sweden, including positions such as the active aspiring ageing man, the passive lonely old man, the embodied and vulnerable old man, and the dutiful old man. Future research should explore how other literary genres may provide ways of understanding how old men's gendered and aged subjectivities are constructed.
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- Johansson Wilén, Evelina, 1985-, et al.
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Till ideologikritikens försvar
- 2021
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Ingår i: Evelina Johansson Wilén, Tomas Wedin och Carl Wilén (red.), Ideologikritik. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144139883 ; , s. 277-308
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Hearn, Jeff, Senior Professor, 1947-
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Wandering around the edges of the arts and humanities : Why is some writing difficult?
- 2023. - 1
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Ingår i: Transities in kunst, cultuur en politiek. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press. - 9789048560110 - 9789048560127 ; , s. 231-230
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Writing sometimes involves wandering. This writing seeks to say and show what it is to write wandering around the edges of the arts and humanities. It also concerns why some writing is difficult, and thence writing on some of those difficulties. These problematics are wandered around, by several rounds – some images invoked by edge-wandering; registering particular significant individuals; how particular places persist in understandings of wandering; disciplines and methodologies, including reflecting on spatiality and locationality; interdisciplinarity and academia; transnational wanderings across writing genres; and relations of art, humanities, science and politics, understood as personal, work, political and theoretical.
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- Ågerup, Karl, 1972-
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Yasmina Khadra et le lecteur occidental
- 2011
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Ingår i: Pensar a Literatura no Séc. XXI. - Braga : ALETHEIA – Associação Científica e Cultural. - 9789726972006 ; , s. 365-376
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Taking the example of the Algerian novelist Yasmina Khadra, the present study examines the intercultural discourse created by North African fiction addressing a Western reader.Considering a novel originally published in France in 2006, namely Les sirènes de Bagdad, the study suggests that already the choice of language and genre is an expression of the author’s approaching of the Western reader. Also, the Western reader is written into the story by didactic features and referential play. Examining Yasmina Khadra’s image and the rhetoric of his narrative, the study finds that the author produces intermediate acts of speech aiming to make certain aspects of Arabic culture intelligible to the Western reader. Judging from the reception in Europe and in the USA, the prose in question is generally perceived as a relevant and enlightening commentary to the situation in the Middle-East. However, some German critics seem reluctant towards the authority of the writer and to parts of the referential grounding. The study suggests that the differences of opinion in this respect depend on varying degrees of readiness to accept the designated role of the reader inherent to the enunciative situation.
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- Deutschmann, Mats
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Social variation in the use of apology formulae in the British National Corpus
- 2006
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Ingår i: The changing face of corpus linguistics. - Amsterdam : Rodopi. - 9042017384 - 9789042017382 - 940120179X ; , s. 408-
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper explores sociolinguistic variation in the frequency of apologising in the spoken part of the British National Corpus. The starting point for the investigation is the �apology formula�, represented by the lexemes �afraid�, �apologise�, �apology�, �excuse�, �forgive�, �pardon�, �regret� and �sorry�. The sub-corpus used for the study comprises a spoken text mass of about five million words and represents dialogue produced by more than 1700 speakers acting in a number of different conversational settings. More than 3000 examples of apologising form the basis for the analysis. In the BNC, young and middle-class speakers favoured the use of the apology form. Only minor gender differences in apologising were apparent. The study implies that formulaic politeness is an important linguistic marker of social class and also shows that corpus linguistic methodology can successfully be used in socio-pragmatic research.
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- Kullenberg, Christopher, 1980, et al.
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What are analog bulletin boards used for today? Analysing media uses, intermediality and technology affordances in Swedish bulletin board messages using a citizen science approach
- 2018
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Ingår i: PLoS ONE. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1932-6203. ; 13:8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Analog bulletin boards are omnipresent in Swedish urban areas, yet little systematic knowledge about this communication medium exists. In the shadow of the rapid emergence of digital media the analog bulletin board has received less attention than its digital successors, many of them having incorporated similar functionality with novel technical solutions. In this study we used a citizen science method to collect 1167 messages from bulletin boards around Sweden aided by school children and teachers, with the purpose of shedding new light on what is communicated on the boards, by whom, using what types of technologies and in what way the messages refer to other media. Results show that the most common messages are invitations to events, such as concerts, lectures and sports events, followed by buy-and-sell ads for goods and services. The most frequent sender is an association, for example NGOs, sports associations or religious communities. Almost half of the sampled messages were professionally printed, about forty per cent were made by home printers. Only six per cent of the messages were handwritten, almost exclusively by private persons as senders. Moreover, we show how the analog bulletin board has adapted to recent changes in media technology—a media landscape which is saturated with electronic- and mobile media. Further, the bulletin board still holds a firm place in a media ecology where local communication is in demand, and exists in parallel with electronic media. Close to forty percent of the messages contained hyperlinks to web pages and we found (and removed for anonymization purposes) more than six hundred phone numbers from the dataset.
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- Björkvall, Anders, 1972-, et al.
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Att skapa mening är att lära : Datorer och yngre barns textanvändning
- 2012
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Ingår i: Resultatdialog 2012. - Stockholm : Vetenskapsrådet. - 9789173072137 ; , s. 48-57
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Yngre barn, i detta fall 7‐ och 8‐ åringar, använder datorer både i skolan och hemma. I så kallade ”en till en”‐projekt har varje barn en dator i skolan, och huvuddelen av undervisningen är knuten till denna dator. Projektet visar hur kopplingar mellan det som barnen gör med datorer hemma och i skolan, och mellan självvalda och lärarinitierade aktiviteter i klassrummet, kan ha underutnyttjad potential för lärande. Dessutom diskuteras principer för hur yngre barns texter där skrift, bild och grafik blandas kan bedömas. Ett barn barn kan till exempel skapa julkänsla i en text genom samspelet mellan färger och skrift, medan andra förlitar sig helt på skriften.
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- Ledin, Per, 1962-, et al.
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Olika hen-syn : om bruket av hen i bloggar, tidningstext och studentuppsatser
- 2013
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Ingår i: Språk och stil. - 1101-1165 .- 2002-4010. ; :23, s. 141-174
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2012, efforts to launch hen as a gender-neutral pronoun in Swedish sparked a widespread and sometimes fierce debate. This article addresses the establishment of hen in actual usage, in particular in blogs, newspapers, and student essays. In general, the use of hen is fairly uncommon, and the majority of occurrences are meta uses, which means the word is discussed more than it is used. In certain areas, however, such as gender-oriented blogs and academic essays on Swedish, hen is somewhat more common. A comparison with alternative gender-neutral expressions is presented, based on different functions of hen, both generic and referentially specific types. Two functions unique to hen are distinguished, cross-gender specific reference and gender-neutral reference to subjects in scientific studies; with respect to other functions, hen is a stylistically marked alternative.
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