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- Bengtsson, Anders, 1963-
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Le journal d'Eric von Roland : Aspects linguistiques
- 2020
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Ingår i: Moderna Språk. - 0026-8577. ; 114:1, s. 26-49
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Eric Roland was born in Stockholm in 1675 and made a so-called Grand Tour in Europe in his youth. This was quite unusual for a person that did not belong to the Swedish aristocracy. He returned to Sweden in 1700, when he started a career as a secretary and a civil servant during the reign of Charles XII. He was ennobled at the end of his career in 1720 and spent the remains of his life at his wife’s manor Tolefors, Östergötland. He died in 1754.During twenty years, he wrote a diary in French, which contains approximately 220 pages. The diary, which was discovered recently, is kept at the Upsala library Carolina Rediviva in the manuscript X370. It is an interesting witness of a period when French was the most important language in Europe and very important in Sweden due to its close relations to France and French culture.In this article, two linguistic features in the diary will be examined. Firstly, I examine the borrowings from Swedish and other languages in the text. Even if Eric Roland has a high proficiency in French, he seems to use these words, probably because he does not know their French counterparts. It is interesting to notice that some of the Swedish words coincide with the very first examples in the Swedish dictionary SAOB. Secondly, I examine the use of gender, which varies a lot in the text. This is a particularly salient feature and the question is if modern studies on second language acquisition could explain this use. Or is the variation in gender simply due to the way he learnt French in Upsala?
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Culture on the Move: Towards a Minorization of Cultural Difference
- 2020
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Ingår i: Moderna Språk. - 0026-8577. ; 114:1
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As a Special Issue in Moderna Språk, the volume collects eight essays and an introductory paper that all focus on demythologizations of cultural politics. What could be identified as the watershed of the contributions included is the fact that there are no homogeneous cultures and that all forms of localisms are fantasies or collective fictions of homogeneity. This is articulated differently and carried across a variety of thresholds in the contributions whose analyses of cultural production include translation, cuisine, media, water writing, punk literature, history, urban studies and protest art as well as more theoretically focused deconstructions of frames of capture that cultural imaginaries rely on. Diversity of material in relation to the elusive concept of culture and the question of its limits was significant for the volume and its overall concerns and, although only eight studies are included, they are all appropriate in terms of their geographical and imaginative focus. They all represent the general movement of elision and disarticulation of bodies and totalities that are always presupposed, not only in essentialisms and the racialized rhetoric blowing across the volatile terrain of contemporary politics but also in the liberal discourses of cultural pluralism, tolerance and multiculturalism. It is this general disarticulating movement across a variety of cultural expressions that provides a departure point for the volume and that contributes to the integrity of its claims.
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- Filipovic, Zlatan, 1974
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Culture on the Move: Towards a Minorization of Cultural Difference : Introduction to Culture on the Move: Towards a Minorization of Cultural Difference
- 2020
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Ingår i: Moderna Språk. - 0026-8577. ; 114:1, s. 1-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article is an introductory paper to a Special Issue in Moderna Språk that collects eight contributions focusing on demythologizations of cultural politics. Using Deleuzian concepts of minorization and delirium, the paper attempts to frame cultural difference in a new open terrain where all forms of localisms and regimes of identifications are seen as frames of capture that subjugate rather than emancipate difference. The measure of a culture’s health, I argue, does not reside in atrophy of its self-identity but in its dispersion of atoms everywhere, its schizoid states of intensities and deterritorializations where thresholds of self-consistency are surpassed and zones of indiscernibility entered. In this context, cultural difference could be seen as a permanent disjunction of territoriality, body or code, that which escapes capture to disrupt the self-valorizing forces of its enunciation, a kind of counter-pressure of synchrony in diachrony, a black body within the white imaginary that produces lesions and lines of escape in airtight regimes of definition and multiplies narrative ruptures in every narrative of constitution. With this mind, the paper then proceeds to introduce and analyze eight contributions to the volume that articulate cultural difference in a variety of contexts including translation, cuisine, media, water writing, punk literature, history, urban studies and protest art as well as more theoretically focused deconstructions of territorial fictions that cultural imaginaries rely on.
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- Garbelli, Marta, 1995-
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«E in realtà il friulano non lo sapevo» : Il casarsese di Pasolini da Poesie a Casarsa (1942) a La meglio gioventù (1954)
- 2023
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Ingår i: Moderna Språk. - 0026-8577. ; 117:3, s. 82-103
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- La scelta del dialetto friulano da parte di Pasolini in Poesie a Casarsa (1942) si giustifica in primo luogo come presa di posizione contro l’usurata lingua della tradizione letteraria italiana in favore di una lingua marginale, «antichissima eppure del tutto vergine» (Pasolini, 1946, p. 14), trasfigurata in un personale idioletto poetico. Dal punto di vista strettamente dialettale, si tratta di una lingua libresca e artefatta, frutto di una «violenza linguistica» che «tendeva a fare del parlato casarsese insieme una koiné friulana e una specie di linguaggio assoluto, inesistente in natura» (Pasolini, 1954, p. 157).Solo dopo il lungo apprendistato dialettale a Casarsa negli anni della guerra l’autore giunge alla piena padronanza del genuino dialetto casarsese come dimostra il rifacimento linguistico delle poesie del 1942 confluito nella Meglio gioventù (1954). Muovendosi tra filologia d’autore e dialettologia, il presente contributo indaga la sensibilità linguistica di Pasolini analizzando i cambiamenti apportati al sistema fonetico, morfosintattico e lessicale delle prime poesie nella nuova versione della Meglio gioventù per sondare da vicino il passaggio dalla «lingua inventata» alla «lingua imparata» (Canciani, 1983, p. 97).
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- Johansson, Evelina, 1986
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Higher-order thinking e-assessment in online EFL courses: Swedish instructors’ perceptions and experiences
- 2020
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Ingår i: Moderna Språk. - 0026-8577. ; 114:2, s. 161-187
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous research indicates that higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) have an important role in L2 learning. In an online learning context, e-assessment tasks are ideally designed to target these skills. A recently conducted study by Johansson (2020) indicates that HOTS e-assessment is relatively common in Swedish online English as a Foreign Language (EFL) courses. Generally, instructors’ perceptions of HOTS and HOTS e-assessment have been described as important for the implementation of these skills in assessment tasks; however, little is known about this in the online EFL context. Hence, the aim of the present study was to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of online EFL instructors’ views on HOTS e-assessment and the challenges of this. To investigate this, a questionnaire was sent out to university instructors working with online EFL courses. The study found that most of the instructors intended to target HOTS through e-assessment tasks and that there is a general agreement about what constitutes such skills. The majority of the instructors had not been offered training in how to target students’ HOTS, but had taken own initiatives to this kind of training. Moreover, the main challenges in developing HOTS e-assessment were instructors’ lack of time and technical skills.
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- Löwe, Corina, 1970-
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Fließende Grenzen? Erzählen und Erinnern in Dorit Linkes Jenseits der blauen Grenze (2014)
- 2021
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Ingår i: Moderna Språk. - Uppsala : Uppsala University. - 0026-8577. ; 115:2, s. 21-36
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Die Bedeutung des Meeres als einer ambivalenten Projektionsfläche für Glück und Bedrohung, für Freiheit und Untergang ist durch die Flüchtlinge, die über das Mittelmeer nach Europa fliehen, erneut ins Bewusstsein gerufen worden. Auch in dem Jugendroman Jenseits der blauen Grenze (2014) von Dorit Linke rückt die Ostsee als Fluchtraum in den Mittelpunkt. Mit dem zeitlichen Abstand von 24 Jahren zur Wende von 1989 schildert Linke, wie Erfahrungen von Begrenzungen und Ausgrenzungen im sozialistischen Alltag die jugendlichen Protagonist/innen im Sommer 1989 zur Flucht über die Ostsee treiben. Im Artikel wird herausgearbeitet, wie die Grenzerfahrungen der Figuren in Jenseits der blauen Grenze thematisch, bildlich und narrativ in Beziehung zum Meer gesetzt werden. Ein Augenmerk bei der Untersuchung des Textes liegt auf dem Zusammenspiel von Erzählen und dem Inszenieren von Erinnerungen. Wichtig für die Analyse ist zudem die verwendete Wassermetaphorik, denn ähnlich wie der natürliche Verlauf der Meere keine trennscharfen Grenzen zulässt, berichtet der Text über fluide Grenzverläufe und vermeidet einfache Täter-Opfer-Zuschreibungen. Als narratives Mittel erfüllt das Meer eine ebenso wichtige Funktion im Text, indem angezeigt wird, wie Gedankengänge und Schwimmbewegungen ineinanderfließen.
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- Paul, Ronald, 1950
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Narratives of collaboration and resistance: Three anti-fascist novels written by women in the 1930s.
- 2020
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Ingår i: Moderna Språk. - 0026-8577. ; 114:2, s. 91-108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Throughout the 1930s, the impact of fascism on the role of women in society and in the family was the focus of several anti-fascist novels written by women. In this article I concentrate on three of the most significant and successful of these works in order to explore the way they dramatize the relationship between collaboration with and resistance to fascism. I show how they not only viewed the reactionary transformation of the state by fascist regimes as a historic defeat for women. They also sought to depict the effect this catastrophe had on their personal lives and how they coped with its social and political challenges. I have therefore selected the following novels – Storm Jameson’s In the Second Year (1936), Murray Constantine’s (Katharine Burdekin) Swastika Night (1937) and Phyllis Bottome’s The Mortal Storm (1938), since they address the fundamentally regressive nature of fascism in different ways as well as individual struggles against it. Moreover, they remain outstanding examples of anti-fascist fiction that still resonate with us today when the world is once more faced with the rise of rightwing, populist and neofascist parties.
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