Papers by Anje Müller Gjesdal
Discourse and Society, 2022
Global environmental change has provoked changes in how humans experience and perceive their rela... more Global environmental change has provoked changes in how humans experience and perceive their relationship to nature. Such conceptual changes can be observed through language use, and specifically lexical change. This paper investigates how such changes manifest through an analysis of how the terms ‘greenhouse gas’, ‘climate gas’, ‘carbon’, and ‘CO2’ are used in the Norwegian parliament in the time period 1999–2019. We observe a discursive specialization where different discursive dimensions are linked to the different expressions, corresponding to different framings of climate change, including technological, economic, and moral perspectives. Importantly, there is a shift over time where the discursive division of labor between the expressions is consolidated and new framings emerge. We show that a more refined language of GHG expressions is a discursive resource that contributes to making sense of the multiple ways that climate change impacts society.
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Fortellinger om migrasjon Skandinavisk, fransk-, tysk- og spanskspråklig samtidslitteratur, 2022
This chapter analyses queer translingualism in Fatima Daas’ novel La petite dernière which tells ... more This chapter analyses queer translingualism in Fatima Daas’ novel La petite dernière which tells the story of a young woman who seeks to combine the values of her religion and local community with her lesbian identity. Code-switching between French, Arabic, English, and Latin contributes to the textual representation of the narrator’s transnational and lesbian identity. In addition, the chapter demonstrates that the novel's translingual practice produces an aesthetic effect related to literary montage.
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Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift, 2022
Språket vi anvender for å snakke om kriminalitet på arbeidsmarkedet er i endring. I det siste tiå... more Språket vi anvender for å snakke om kriminalitet på arbeidsmarkedet er i endring. I det siste tiårets offentlige debatter og politiske strategidokumenter ser vi en stor økning i bruken av begreper som «arbeidslivskriminalitet», «arbeidsmarkedskriminalitet», «arbeidsmiljøkriminalitet» og forkortelsen «a-krim» som synonymer for å beskrive nye former for kriminalitet og kriminalitetsbekjempelse. Artikkelen presenterer en eksplorativ studie av den språklige endringen og knytter den til fremveksten av en ny forståelsesramme for kriminalitet i arbeidslivet. Vi viser at det nye begrepsapparatet er suksessfullt i den forstand at det skaper bred oppslutning, på tvers av både tradisjonelle politiske skillelinjer og organisasjoner. Vi analyserer datasett bestående av medietekster og nasjonale styringsdokumenter og identifiserer store endringer i språket. Metodisk er artikkelen fundert i korpus-assistert diskursanalyse, hvor nøkkelord brukes som analytisk omdreiningspunkt for kvalitative og kvantitative analyser av materialet, for å identifisere utviklingstrekk i saksfeltet. Artikkelen argumenterer for at en analyse av begrepet «arbeidslivskriminalitet» er nyttig for å forstå politikkutvikling på feltet, og at trusselforståelsen som ligger til grunn har fungert samlende på tvers av den politiske eliten.
Abstract The language we use to talk about crime in the labor market is changing. In the last decadeʼs public debates and political documents, we see a large increase in the use of terms such as «labor crime», «labor market crime», «work environment crime» and the abbreviated form «A-crime» as synonyms to describe new forms of crime and crime fighting. The article presents an exploratory study of the linguistic change and links it to the emergence of a new framework for understanding crime in working life. We analyze data sets consisting of media texts and national governing documents and identify major linguistic changes. The new conceptual apparatus is described as successful in that it is used to achieve broad political support, across traditional divides, both political and organizational. Methodologically, the article is based on corpus-assisted discourse analysis, where keywords are used as an analytical focal point for qualitative and quantitative analyses of the material, to identify developments in the field. The article argues that an analysis of the concept of ʼwork-related crimeʼ is useful for understanding policy development in the field, and that the underlying understanding of the threat has worked to unify across the Norwegian political elite.
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Fortellinger om bærekraftig utvikling, 2021
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Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 2020
Språket som brukes for å snakke om klimaproblemet, er i endring. Ulike «karbonuttrykk» som «grønt... more Språket som brukes for å snakke om klimaproblemet, er i endring. Ulike «karbonuttrykk» som «grønt karbon», «karbonbudsjett» og«karbonfangst» har det siste tiåret blitt stadig mer brukt i norske stortingsdebatter. I artikkelen analyserer vi bruken av karbonuttrykk i samtlige norske stortingsdebatter mellom 1999 og 2018, og knytter bruken til ulike meningsdimensjoner i klimadebatten. Vi finner at «karbon» særlig blir brukt i en rekke nye ord og vendinger, og dette kan tolkes som et uttrykk for at klimaspørsmål i økende grad blir knyttet til en ubalanse i naturens karbonsyklus. Dette har konsekvenser for hva som er gode argumenter, og hvordan klimapolitikk blir begrunnet.
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Borderlands, 2019
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Les néologismes environnementaux montrent l'influence de débats politiques dans la génération... more Les néologismes environnementaux montrent l'influence de débats politiques dans la génération de mots nouveaux. Dans cet article, nous décrivons le cas de det grønne skiftet ('le tournant vert') dont l'emploi a vu une augmentation importante ces dernières années. Alors que la fréquence en tant que critère de néologie a déjà été adoptée dans des études antérieures, nous proposons d'inclure la diffusion d'une expression dans d'autres domaines comme un critère de néologie et nous estimons que les analyses basées sur les corpus sont plus fiables que les approches basées sur les dictionnaires ou l'intuition des locuteurs d'une langue.<br>Cet article présente une étude de cas utilisant des sources publiques aussi bien que le corpus Norwegian Newspaper Corpus, dont l'accès a été rendu possible par CLARINO, la contribution norvégienne à CLARIN, un projet européen pour les ressources et les outils technologiques pour le langage.
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This report was produced in the context of the project Data Service Infrastructure for the Social... more This report was produced in the context of the project Data Service Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and Humanities (DASISH) work package 4.3 Convergence of Data Services. The goal has been to allow the selection and promotion of high-quality deposit services for researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and to make suggestions for service improvements.
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Environmental Values, 2021
This paper investigates how people conceive and evaluate nature through language, in a climate ch... more This paper investigates how people conceive and evaluate nature through language, in a climate change context. With material consisting of 1,200 answers to open-ended questions in nationally representative surveys in Norway, we explore what semantic roles and values the respondents attribute to nature as well as to how they interact with the public debate about climate change. We observe that different conceptions and valuations of nature are tied to different perspectives on the climate change issue: some address the responsibilities of causing climate change, others its consequences, and others yet its potential solutions. The study provides knowledge about the variety of conceptions of nature that can be mobilised by individuals and suggests that policy measures and public communication could benefit by taking this diversity into account.
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Revue française de linguistique appliquée, 2014
Les discours sur les changements climatiques constituent un champ heterogene et en pleine expansi... more Les discours sur les changements climatiques constituent un champ heterogene et en pleine expansion. La blogosphere climatique en constitue un sous-domaine important, notamment en ce qui concerne la vulgarisation des donnees scientifiques. La communication efficace des consequences potentielles du rechauffement de la planete reste un defi majeur puisque ces consequences ne sont pas necessairement empiriquement observables pour l’instant. Dans cette perspective, le cadrage du discours et la conceptualisation de la notion du futur joue un role essentiel. Dans cet article, nous analysons les conceptualisations du futur dans le corpus Networks of Texts and People (NTAP), qui comprend 1,5 million billets de blog en langue anglaise, tires de 3 000 blogs portant sur les changements du climat.
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Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies, 2019
Recent trends in patterns of mobility, and specifically the spatial exclusion of exiles into dete... more Recent trends in patterns of mobility, and specifically the spatial exclusion of exiles into detention centers and camps, point to an urgent need to re-examine different forms of narratives on migration and exile, and to the representation of transcultural memory in these settings. The article presents a qualitative and exploratory analysis of the visual and linguistic representation of the orthodox church in the Calais “Jungle”. The findings suggest that the representation of the church contributes to the construction of a collective memory, and that recurrent linguistic and visual formulae, or topoï, such as shared traditions and respect for the sacred, contribute to the commemorative function of the texts and images that represent the church. In addition, the analyses indicate that the commemorative function of the church contributes to the development of innovative modes of contestation and solidarity with the exiles.
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Neophilologus, 2018
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Acta Didactica Norge, 2014
Korpus er en type digitale språkressurser (maskinlesbare tekstsamlinger) som er mye brukt i moder... more Korpus er en type digitale språkressurser (maskinlesbare tekstsamlinger) som er mye brukt i moderne lingvistikk som empirisk støtte for studiet av ulike språklige fenomener. Korpus kan med hell brukes i fremmedspråkundervisningen, men er frem til nå ikke i tilstrekkelig grad blitt tatt i bruk i norsk skole og høyere utdanning. I denne artikkelen gir vi en gjennomgang av eksisterende forskningslitteratur på feltet, med hovedvekt på bidrag fra det angloamerikanske språkområdet. Deretter går vi gjennom to korpus som er tilgjengelige for norske brukere, Norwegian-Spanish Parallel Corpus og Oslo Multilingual Corpus. Vi viser hvordan disse korpusene kan brukes i undervisningen av ulike språklige fenomener, fra vokabular til sosiolingvistiske fenomener. På grunnlag av eksisterende forskning på pedagogiske applikasjoner av korpus samt våre egne forslag til undervisningsopplegg er det grunn til å tro at bruk av korpus vil kunne være et verdifullt bidrag til fremmedspråkundervisningen i norsk...
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Acta Didactica Norge, 2017
Artikkelen tar opp fremmedspråkenes formidling av interkulturell kompetanse, og hvordan denne er ... more Artikkelen tar opp fremmedspråkenes formidling av interkulturell kompetanse, og hvordan denne er knyttet til skolens samlede danningsprosjekt. Artikkel-forfatterne diskuterer hvordan migrantnarrativer kan brukes som inngangs-portal til utviklingen av interkulturell kompetanse, og hvordan disse narrativ-ene, gjennom å presentere det pedagogen Gerhard Neuner kaller universelle sosiokulturelle erfaringer, er egnet som materiale for perspektivforflytning og evnen til å se “den andre”, som er sentrale begrep innenfor det interkulturelle undervisningsparadigmet. Tidligere forskning har vist at fremmedspråkenes læremidler i begrenset grad benytter seg av det potensialet som ligger i arbeidet med interkulturell kompetanse knyttet til språkområdene. Artikkelforfatterne har derfor foretatt analyser av læreverktekster i fransk, spansk og italiensk, valgt ut på grunnlag av forståelsen av migrantnarrativer som særlig egnet for å jobbe med denne typen kompetanse. De undersøkte tekstene represente...
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Discours, 2013
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Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies, 2013
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Global Environmental Change, 2014
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Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The development of intercultural competence is a crucial part of foreign language (FL) education,... more The development of intercultural competence is a crucial part of foreign language (FL) education, yet it remains under-explored in teaching materials and teacher education. Transnational perspectives on FL teaching, and specifically literary texts on migration and exile, may help expand teaching beyond the traditional monocultural focus and stimulate the development of intercultural competence. The article presents case studies of three literary texts that can be used for this purpose. The texts may contribute to the development of the students’ intercultural competence as they give access to other perspectives, while simultaneously encouraging students to reflect on their own life-world. However, the texts are highly dependent on contextualization and adaptation of classroom activities, thus underlining the crucial role of the teacher in the development of students’ intercultural awareness.
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This chapter analyses the interaction of the French indefinite personal pronoun on and the presen... more This chapter analyses the interaction of the French indefinite personal pronoun on and the present tense in L’exces – l’usine by Leslie Kaplan, a collection of poetry about the experience of factory work. ‘On’ has a complex semantic content, and its interpretative values range from the personal (corresponding to the English ‘we’) to the indefinite (‘one’), depending on contextual factors, including text and genre. The chapter argues that L’exces – l’usine instantiates the influence of textual genre; the interaction of two semantically underdetermined elements is conditioned by the textual universe to create a particular representation of subjectivity and temporality, as well as of the factory universe.
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Migrant narratives and aesthetic practices influenced by experiences of exile and migration const... more Migrant narratives and aesthetic practices influenced by experiences of exile and migration constitute a growing field in contemporary art and literature. Current trends in migration and globalisation have led to an increase in travelling narratives, images and objects, and the production of aesthetic practices describing and problematising exile and migration, working in and through tradition. Migratory patterns and issues related to the protection of refugees and asylum seekers contribute to the strong societal impact of migrant aesthetics and narratives, but they also serve to explain the need for them as such, and the need to reexamine them. More than ever, we need to understand the experiences of exiles, migrants and refugees. The objective of this special issue is therefore to examine textual, material and visual expressions that represent, discuss and problematise migration.
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Abstract The language we use to talk about crime in the labor market is changing. In the last decadeʼs public debates and political documents, we see a large increase in the use of terms such as «labor crime», «labor market crime», «work environment crime» and the abbreviated form «A-crime» as synonyms to describe new forms of crime and crime fighting. The article presents an exploratory study of the linguistic change and links it to the emergence of a new framework for understanding crime in working life. We analyze data sets consisting of media texts and national governing documents and identify major linguistic changes. The new conceptual apparatus is described as successful in that it is used to achieve broad political support, across traditional divides, both political and organizational. Methodologically, the article is based on corpus-assisted discourse analysis, where keywords are used as an analytical focal point for qualitative and quantitative analyses of the material, to identify developments in the field. The article argues that an analysis of the concept of ʼwork-related crimeʼ is useful for understanding policy development in the field, and that the underlying understanding of the threat has worked to unify across the Norwegian political elite.
Abstract The language we use to talk about crime in the labor market is changing. In the last decadeʼs public debates and political documents, we see a large increase in the use of terms such as «labor crime», «labor market crime», «work environment crime» and the abbreviated form «A-crime» as synonyms to describe new forms of crime and crime fighting. The article presents an exploratory study of the linguistic change and links it to the emergence of a new framework for understanding crime in working life. We analyze data sets consisting of media texts and national governing documents and identify major linguistic changes. The new conceptual apparatus is described as successful in that it is used to achieve broad political support, across traditional divides, both political and organizational. Methodologically, the article is based on corpus-assisted discourse analysis, where keywords are used as an analytical focal point for qualitative and quantitative analyses of the material, to identify developments in the field. The article argues that an analysis of the concept of ʼwork-related crimeʼ is useful for understanding policy development in the field, and that the underlying understanding of the threat has worked to unify across the Norwegian political elite.