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Francis
Analysing the Cameroonian Climate Discourse (12.02.2018)
鈥滻 wanted to do something relevant that could serve a purpose and reach people outside of the field of linguistics. I do not want to do linguistics just for the sake of it鈥�.
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Humanities scholars attract foreign researchers to Bergen (01.02.2018)
Thanks to EU funding, the Digital Culture, Archaeology, Philosophy and Theory of Science researchs groups will welcome new international researchers to their team. These groups at the Faculty of Humanities received five out of seven Marie Curie grants awarded to UiB.
Gunn Inger Sture
In Search of the Ageing Self (26.09.2017)
Gunn Inger Sture is a new PhD candidate affiliated with the project 鈥淗istoricizing the ageing self鈥�. Her PhD project has the working title 鈥淢arcel Proust 鈥� time metaphors, memory and ageing鈥�.
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Implementing Norwegian Language Policy in China (17.08.2017)
How can the Norwegian two-form solution serve as a source of inspiration for resolving language conflicts in China?
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Tapping into the Sociolinguistic Realities in China (12.06.2017)
Guowen Shang, Associate Professor of Chinese language, is currently studying sign languages 鈥� not languages with signs, but on signs. 鈥淭he language signs are everywhere in our environment, but the language choices on the signs are determined by a range of social, economic, psychological and political factors鈥�. This inquiry is in accord with his academic commitment to the language policy and... Read more
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Media language slows down fight against poverty (15.11.2016)
Latin American newspapers use a technical language when describing poverty. According to researcher Ana Beatriz Chiquito, this makes it more difficult to understand the causes and effects of poverty.
Talking about climate (04.05.2016)
The film "Talking about climate" is produced by 1001 Films for the LINGCLIM project (English subtitles).
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Tunis meets Bergen (03.05.2016)
鈥淚鈥檓 in love with Bergen鈥�, says one of the five Tunisian exchange students that the Department of Foreign Languages has welcomed this spring semester.
Conference participants
Conference presentations - "The Human Side of Climate Change" - Oct2015 (27.10.2015)
The LINGCLIM project arranged a multidisciplinary conference on climate change in Bergen.
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Latin American film series (24.08.2015)
Interested in films? Every Friday afternoon this semester, a Latin American film will be shown at UiB Global.
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How paintings influenced Shakespeare (24.08.2015)
Professor Stuart Sillars is offering a new way of looking at Shakespeare鈥檚 plays in his new book, Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination.
Kjersti Fl酶ttum from University of Bergen and Endre Tvinnereim from Uni Research Rokkan are co-authors of an article published in Nature Climate Change on 1 June 2015.
What you think about when you hear the words climate change (02.06.2015)
Using a new method, researchers in Bergen discovered that so-called climate sceptics are more ambivalent about climate issues than previously assumed. Their results have now been published in Nature Climate Change.
Illustration
How does the media portray poverty? (28.05.2015)
Research project studies how media uses language to construct and convey conceptions of poverty.
Graphic outlines of European countries in yellow on a red background, used to illustrate article about the Research Group The Borders of Europe.
Researching the changing borders of Europe (20.11.2014)
Europe鈥檚 borders keep changing, both mentally and geographically. But where do Europe鈥檚 borders begin? Where do they end? What is the real centre of Europe? We asked the research group the Borders of Europe to provide us with some answers.
Food
The SAMKUL Conference 2014 鈥� The technology, politics and culture of food (09.10.2014)
The 2014 open SAMKUL conference is being held in Trondheim November 3. Among the main speakers are Ken Albala fra Pacific University, Karin Zachmann fra Technisches Universit盲t M眉nchen and Philip McMichael from Cornell.
Dr. Zhaou Shouhui outside the Department f Foreign Languages.
New perspectives on Chinese 大象传媒 in Bergen (07.03.2014)
- Many of the students have chosen Chinese studies from a strong personal interest, but they will have to think about job prospects as well, says the new associate professor of Chinese, Dr. Zhao Shouhui. He believes the relationship between Norway and China will grow closer in the future, and that the job market will benefit from this.
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Meeting Foreign Cultures (01.03.2013)
To fully participate in the business world of tomorrow, knowledge of language and culture needs to move beyond English.

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