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Non-fictional Prose and Society: Towards a Social Theory of Non-Fictional Prose
No full textThis article offers a social theory of subject-oriented prose. In doing that, it draws upon and further develops ideas articulated in Swedish and Norwegian research on the matter. The assumption in a social theory of subject-oriented prose is that to understand it, we must understand social structures and the agency of people as it is mediated and constituted by subject-oriented prose. Understanding the latter is understanding its function in society’s activity spheres and understanding activity spheres requires understanding the role of subject-oriented prose. This further implies that the notion of ‘subject-oriented prose’ enacted in the article is concerned with the texts people are producing and reading as part of their doings in the activity spheres they participate in and hence is not limited to the ‘mycket lästa’ (the much read) by the public. The article’s theoretical point of departure is rhetorical genre theory where emphasis is on the action genre accomplishes and on the ‘de facto’ genres people are engaged with in everyday life and have names for, and hence not genres as defined normatively by scholars.Denne artikel fremsætter en samfundsteori om sagprosa. Der er tale om en teori, der fokuserer på sagprosaens medierende effekter og dens indlejring i samfundets virksomhedssfærer. Med dette fokus fremhæves sagprosaens funktion som en konsekvens af samfundets måde at organisere sig på. Artiklen diskuterer først spørgsmålet om, hvorfor vi skal have en samfundsteori om sagprosa og dernæst skitserer den, hvad sådan en teori er. Artiklen afslutter med 3 teser, der indkapsler, artiklens hovedargument og bidrag.Denne artikel fremsætter et bud på en samfundsteori om sagprosa. Der er tale om en teori, der fokuserer på sagprosaens medierende effekter og dens indlejring i samfundets virksomhedssfærer. Med dette fokus fremhæves sagprosaens funktion som en konsekvens af samfundets måde at organisere sig på. Artiklen diskuterer først spørgsmålet om, hvordan en sådan teori ser ud
Samisk språk og tekst i norskdidaktikken – oppdagelse og opplevelse
No full textArtikkelen presenterer et nytt undervisningsopplegg der norsklærerstudenter leser en autentisk tekst på sørsamisk og skaffer seg innblikk i grammatikken gjennom stillasbyggende oppgaver og den online tilgjengelige ordboka Nedtedigibaakoeh (u.å.). I løpet av en enkelt økt får studenten innblikk i språket og verktøy og metoder til å utforske samisk språkstruktur videre alene eller sammen med elever. Hverken studenter eller faglærer må kunne et samisk språk for å gjennomføre opplegget. Samisk språk er del av den felles kulturarv som skal forvaltes av nålevende og kommende generasjoner (Utdanningsdirektoratet, 2020a). I et språkfag som norsk er det relevant å tilby lærerstudentene innblikk i samisk språkstruktur så vel som språkpolitiske og sosiolingvistiske forhold. Det er generelt utfordringer med å implementere opplæring om samiske tema i lærerutdanningene (Olsen, Sollid & Johansen, 2017), og uten samisk språkkompetanse kan det være særlig utfordrende å undervise om samisk språkstruktur. Denne artikkelen viser hvordan slike utfordringer kan møtes med et opplegg som vektlegger autentisitet, studentaktivitet og internalisert motivasjon (Ryan & Deci, 2000). En gjennomføring i et førsteårsemne i norskdidaktikk viser at studentene mestrer oppgavene og opplever engasjement og inspirasjon i arbeidet med sørsamiske sangtekster. Med gode stillas kan man altså saktens jobbe med autentisk samisk tekst på samisk og la studentene oppdage samisk språkstruktur. Videre har opplegget grammatikkdidaktisk potensial: Studentene må bruke grammatikkunnskap og metaspråk aktivt for å forstå den samiske teksten og samarbeide i prosessen. Dette kan bidra til varig forståelse av grammatikkbegreper, fordi studentene anvender grammatikkunnskapen til å løse oppgaver i nye sammenhenger (Haugen, 2019; Kunnskapsdepartementet, 2015–2016).The paper presents newly developed teaching materials that enable Norwegian teacher students to read an authentic text in South Saami and get acquainted with the grammar through scaffolding activities and the online dictionary Nedtedigibaakoeh (n.d.). Within a single session the students get an insight into the language and tools and methods for exploring the language further alone or together with pupils. The materials do not presuppose proficiency in a Saami language. Saami languages are part of the cultural heritage that must be sustained by present and future generations (Utdanningsdirektoratet [Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training], 2020a). In a language subject like Norwegian, it is relevant to offer the students an insight into Saami language structure as well as language policy and sociolinguistic realities. There are challenges with implementing teaching on Saami topics in Norwegian teacher education in general (Olsen, Sollid & Johansen, 2017), and without Saami language proficiency, it may be especially challenging to teach Saami language structure. The paper shows how these challenges can be met through teaching materials that emphasise authenticity, student activity and internal motivation (Ryan & Deci, 2000). An execution in a first-year course in Norwegian didactics shows that the students master the tasks and they find the work on authentic South Saami song lyrics engaging and inspiring. With appropriate scaffolding, it is possible to work with Saami texts in Saami and let the students discover the structure of the language. Moreover, the materials have a grammar didactic potential: The students must actively use their knowledge about grammar and metalanguage in order to understand the Saami text and collaborate in the process. This can contribute to a sustained understanding of grammatical terms because the students apply their knowledge about grammar to solve new problems in new contexts (Haugen, 2019; Kunnskapsdepartementet [Ministry of Education and Research], 2015–2016)
Downtown/Centre-ville: ...in Egypt
No full textAn array of Egyptian lifeworlds in 2016.
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ARRAYS: ʔAlsh | Apartment Wanted | ʿAshwāʾiyyāt | Baby Milk | Celebrities | Clash | Commemoration / Memorial Days | Conversions | Court Trials | Crowdfunding | Dancing | Disappearances | Disasters | Dollar Crisis | Downtown/Centre-ville | Dual Identities / Masking | Éveil d’une nation / Ṣaḥwat umma | Father Figures | Football | Garbage | Gated Communities / Compounds | Hashish | High School Exams | The Honourable Citizen | In Islam, … | Kamīn | Language | LGBT | Manīsh msāmiḥ | Migration | Mobile Phones | The Policeman Criminal | Pop Music | Prison | Psychiatrists | Public Hearings | Red Sea Islands | Self-help | Social Media | Suicide | The Suspect Foreigner | Tourist Resorts | Tricking the System / Tricked by the System | Tuk-tuk | Uber | Valentine’s Day | The Voice from Above | Zaḥma
CODES: Affluence vs. Destitution | Beautiful vs. Ugly | Center vs. Periphery | Freedom vs. Constraint | Hope vs. Hell | Inferiority vs. Superiority | Male vs. Female | Normality vs. Heroism | Past vs. Present | Security vs. Fear | “The System” vs. “The People” | True vs. False | Voice vs. Silence | Young vs. Settled
CODES COLLAPSED: Hope = Hell (Dystopia) | Inferiority = Superiority (Satire) | Normality = Heroism (Surviving) | Present = Past (Stuck) | Security = Fear (Police State) | True = False (Life in Limbo
In Islam, …: An array of Egyptian and Tunisian lifeworlds in 2016
No full textAn array of Egyptian and Tunisian lifeworlds in 2016.
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ARRAYS: ʔAlsh | Apartment Wanted | ʿAshwāʾiyyāt | Baby Milk | Celebrities | Clash | Commemoration / Memorial Days | Conversions | Court Trials | Crowdfunding | Dancing | Disappearances | Disasters | Dollar Crisis | Downtown/Centre-ville | Dual Identities / Masking | Éveil d’une nation / Ṣaḥwat umma | Father Figures | Football | Garbage | Gated Communities / Compounds | Hashish | High School Exams | The Honourable Citizen | Kamīn | Language | LGBT | Manīsh msāmiḥ | Migration | Mobile Phones | The Policeman Criminal | Pop Music | Prison | Psychiatrists | Public Hearings | Red Sea Islands | Self-help | Social Media | Suicide | The Suspect Foreigner | Tourist Resorts | Tricking the System / Tricked by the System | Tuk-tuk | Uber | Valentine’s Day | The Voice from Above | Zaḥma
CODES: Affluence vs. Destitution | Beautiful vs. Ugly | Center vs. Periphery | Freedom vs. Constraint | Hope vs. Hell | Inferiority vs. Superiority | Male vs. Female | Normality vs. Heroism | Past vs. Present | Security vs. Fear | “The System” vs. “The People” | True vs. False | Voice vs. Silence | Young vs. Settled
CODES COLLAPSED: Hope = Hell (Dystopia) | Inferiority = Superiority (Satire) | Normality = Heroism (Surviving) | Present = Past (Stuck) | Security = Fear (Police State) | True = False (Life in Limbo
Tricking the System / Tricked by the System: An array of Egyptian and Tunisian lifeworlds in 2016
No full textAn array of Egyptian and Tunisian lifeworlds in 2016.
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ARRAYS: ʔAlsh | Apartment Wanted | ʿAshwāʾiyyāt | Baby Milk | Celebrities | Clash | Commemoration / Memorial Days | Conversions | Court Trials | Crowdfunding | Dancing | Disappearances | Disasters | Dollar Crisis | Downtown/Centre-ville | Dual Identities / Masking | Éveil d’une nation / Ṣaḥwat umma | Father Figures | Football | Garbage | Gated Communities / Compounds | Hashish | High School Exams | The Honourable Citizen | In Islam, … | Kamīn | Language | LGBT | Manīsh msāmiḥ | Migration | Mobile Phones | The Policeman Criminal | Pop Music | Prison | Psychiatrists | Public Hearings | Red Sea Islands | Self-help | Social Media | Suicide | The Suspect Foreigner | Tourist Resorts | Tuk-tuk | Uber | Valentine’s Day | The Voice from Above | Zaḥma
CODES: Affluence vs. Destitution | Beautiful vs. Ugly | Center vs. Periphery | Freedom vs. Constraint | Hope vs. Hell | Inferiority vs. Superiority | Male vs. Female | Normality vs. Heroism | Past vs. Present | Security vs. Fear | “The System” vs. “The People” | True vs. False | Voice vs. Silence | Young vs. Settled
CODES COLLAPSED: Hope = Hell (Dystopia) | Inferiority = Superiority (Satire) | Normality = Heroism (Surviving) | Present = Past (Stuck) | Security = Fear (Police State) | True = False (Life in Limbo
Security vs. Fear: A code of Egyptian and Tunisian lifeworlds in 2016
No full textA cluster of arrays “provid[ing] principles of order within the unstructured simultaneity of everyday-worlds”* in Egypt and Tunisia in 2016, forming part of the two countries’ “culture” during the In 2016 project’s target year.
*H. U. Gumbrecht, In 1926: Living at the Edge of Time (1997), 443.
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ARRAYS: ʔAlsh | Apartment Wanted | ʿAshwāʾiyyāt | Baby Milk | Celebrities | Clash | Commemoration / Memorial Days | Conversions | Court Trials | Crowdfunding | Dancing | Disappearances | Disasters | Dollar Crisis | Downtown/Centre-ville | Dual Identities / Masking | Éveil d’une nation / Ṣaḥwat umma | Father Figures | Football | Garbage | Gated Communities / Compounds | Hashish | High School Exams | The Honourable Citizen | In Islam, … | Kamīn | Language | LGBT | Manīsh msāmiḥ | Migration | Mobile Phones | The Policeman Criminal | Pop Music | Prison | Psychiatrists | Public Hearings | Red Sea Islands | Self-help | Social Media | Suicide | The Suspect Foreigner | Tourist Resorts | Tricking the System / Tricked by the System | Tuk-tuk | Uber | Valentine’s Day | The Voice from Above | Zaḥma
CODES: Affluence vs. Destitution | Beautiful vs. Ugly | Center vs. Periphery | Freedom vs. Constraint | Hope vs. Hell | Inferiority vs. Superiority | Male vs. Female | Normality vs. Heroism | Past vs. Present | “The System” vs. “The People” | True vs. False | Voice vs. Silence | Young vs. Settled
CODES COLLAPSED: Hope = Hell (Dystopia) | Inferiority = Superiority (Satire) | Normality = Heroism (Surviving) | Present = Past (Stuck) | Security = Fear (Police State) | True = False (Life in Limbo
Consult Your Heart: The Self as a Source of Moral Judgment
No full textIn this article, I explore the authority of the heart (qalb) as a potential locus for the individual moral knowledge and normativity in Islamic ethics. To do so, I discuss the two ḥadīths that ostensibly suggest one’s “self” as a source of moral judgment. These ḥadīths raise renewed questions about the sources of moral judgment, the nature of moral judgement and the ethical capacity of the “self” (conscience) –– “consult your heart and consult your self …”; “righteousness is good conduct, and sin is that which rankles in your chest and which you would hate for other people to look upon.”
There are rich debates in the Islamic tradition on the place and authority of the bāṭin (inward) in generating moral knowledge, which correspond to contemporary discourses in Western ethics on the place of conscience in the moral formation of the individual. In this article, I argue that although Islamic legal tradition as a discipline has focused on qualified external actions of individuals and the ijtihād (independent legal reasoning) of mujtahids (jurists), it did not ignore the authority of the bāṭin for moral assessment and the ijtihād of common individuals. I propose that the inward dimension has always occupied an important space within the interdisciplinary field of Islamic ethics; but has been overshadowed by the overarching theological disputes between the Muʿtazilīs and Ashʿarīs over the sources of knowledge.
The article starts by exploring the relevant aḥādith (reports) and their interpretation in ḥadīth commentaries, followed by an analysis of discussions in the fields of Islamic jurisprudence and Sufism.
Key words: akhlāq (ethics), ḥadīth, scriptural ethics, moral conscience, heart, self, moral judgemt, al-bāṭin, consult your heart, inspiration (ilhām), ratio legis, Sufīsm. 
En nivådelt modell for multimodal komposisjonsanalyse av digitalt medierte sakprosatekster
No full textIn this article I present a level-divided model for analysing multimodal composition. The material is two factualprose-texts referred to as blog excerpts, written by third-year pre-teacher students in the subject of Norwegian in a learning community. The model is the main object of the study, and the analysis of the blog excerpts is the main contribution for examining the model. Social semiotics is the overarching theoretical perspective of the study. The multimodal blog excerpts are thus under- stood in association with the social contexts in which they are produced and interpreted based on the socio-technological premises of the compositions. Theoretical tools for the analysis are rooted in Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen’s further development of Michel Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL), more specifically concepts derived from theories related to visuality and multimodality. The analyses serve as concrete examples of how the level-divided model can be used. Based on the findings I will discuss and justify the model’s relevance for understanding compositional meaning-making.I denne artikkelen presenterer jeg en nivådelt modell for analyse av teksters komposisjon av flere meningsbærende uttrykksformer. Materialet er to norskfaglige sakprosatekster, i analysen benevnt som bloggutsnitt, produsert av tredjeårs lærerstudenter i et digitalt læringsfellesskap. Modellen er selve objektet for studien, og analysene er hovedbidragene der modellen undersøkes. Sosialsemiotikk er den overordnede teoretiske anskuelsen for undersøkelsen. De meningsbærende uttrykksformene forstås dermed i sammenheng med den sosiale konteksten tekstene befinner seg i, og tolkes ut fra de sosioteknologiske premissene for komposisjonene. Det teoretiske analyseverktøyet er forankret i Gunther Kress og Theo van Leeuwens videreutvikling av Michael Hallidays systemisk funksjonelle lingvistikk (SFL), nærmere bestemt begreper knyttet til visualitet og multimodalitet. Analysene er konkrete eksempler på hvordan den nivådelte modellen kan anvendes, og utfra analysefunn drøftes og begrunnes modellens relevans for å forstå komposisjonell meningsskaping
