35 research outputs found

    Sosiale roller og lokale og globale interesser i vurderingen av sprÄksituasjoner

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    Kommer det samiske sprÄket til Ä dÞ ut? Trusler mot det sprÄklige mangfoldet og mulig sprÄkdÞd er hyppig diskutert i det flersprÄklige Nord-Norge. Deltakere i denne diskursen er talere, lokale aktÞrer, forskere og fageksperter, statlige myndigheter, politikere og glo­bale organisasjoner som UNESCO. Denne studien tar utgangspunkt i tre ulike vurde­ringer av den samiske sprÄksituasjonen og sprÄkenes fremtidsperspektiver som ble presen­tert i forskjellige medietekster. Tekstanalysen viser hvordan disse representasjo­nene av sprÄksituasjonen involverer ulike sosiale roller og rollesett, og hvordan evalue­ringene pÄvirkes av disse. Operasjonaliseringen av rollesett i diskursen kan innebÊre konflikter mellom ulike interesser og effekter i kommunikasjonsprosessen, blant annet mellom globale og lokale perspektiver. Analysen viser at det er viktig Ä betrakte den diskursive konstruksjonen av trusler og varsler om truende sprÄkdÞd i lyset av de ulike sosiale rollene og interessene som pÄ ulike nivÄ deltar i Ä lage diskursen

    Sosiale roller og lokale og globale interesser i vurderingen av sprÄksituasjoner

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    Kommer det samiske sprÄket til Ä dÞ ut? Trusler mot det sprÄklige mangfoldet og mulig sprÄkdÞd er hyppig diskutert i det flersprÄklige Nord-Norge. Deltakere i denne diskursen er talere, lokale aktÞrer, forskere og fageksperter, statlige myndigheter, politikere og glo­bale organisasjoner som UNESCO. Denne studien tar utgangspunkt i tre ulike vurde­ringer av den samiske sprÄksituasjonen og sprÄkenes fremtidsperspektiver som ble presen­tert i forskjellige medietekster. Tekstanalysen viser hvordan disse representasjo­nene av sprÄksituasjonen involverer ulike sosiale roller og rollesett, og hvordan evalue­ringene pÄvirkes av disse. Operasjonaliseringen av rollesett i diskursen kan innebÊre konflikter mellom ulike interesser og effekter i kommunikasjonsprosessen, blant annet mellom globale og lokale perspektiver. Analysen viser at det er viktig Ä betrakte den diskursive konstruksjonen av trusler og varsler om truende sprÄkdÞd i lyset av de ulike sosiale rollene og interessene som pÄ ulike nivÄ deltar i Ä lage diskursen

    Learnings from/about diversity in space and time: discursive constructions in the semiotic landscape of a teacher education building in Norway

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    This article critically examines the discourses concerning historical and transnational linguistic and cultural diversity in the semiotic landscape of a new teacher education building in Norway. In 2020, this building, housing the Department of Education, opened at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, in the city of Tromsþ. Designing, constructing, and decorating a new building for a national teacher education was taken as an opportunity to reflect on and negotiate the institution’s role in relevant contemporary, as well as historical, educational discourses and to mark a current standpoint. Taking a nexus analytical approach, we analyse how linguistic and cultural diversity are represented in the department’s public space and how this is interwoven with the construction of the institution’s position in a multilingual and multicultural environment. Our analysis shows that this diversity is constructed through various contrasts. Sámi identities and regional roots of knowledge are emphasised in the official part of the semiotic landscape – framed as learnings from diversity. However, by analysing meta-sociolinguistic discourses about diversity, we show that this is accompanied by the erasure of other aspects of linguistic and cultural diversity, in particular Kven culture and identity, transnational diversity, and children and their lifeworld

    MHC I Stabilizing Potential of Computer-Designed Octapeptides

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    Experimental results are presented for 180 in silico designed octapeptide sequences and their stabilizing effects on the major histocompatibility class I molecule H-2Kb. Peptide sequence design was accomplished by a combination of an ant colony optimization algorithm with artificial neural network classifiers. Experimental tests yielded nine H-2Kb stabilizing and 171 nonstabilizing peptides. 28 among the nonstabilizing octapeptides contain canonical motif residues known to be favorable for MHC I stabilization. For characterization of the area covered by stabilizing and non-stabilizing octapeptides in sequence space, we visualized the distribution of 100,603 octapeptides using a self-organizing map. The experimental results present evidence that the canonical sequence motives of the SYFPEITHI database on their own are insufficient for predicting MHC I protein stabilization

    The Plasmodium Export Element Revisited

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    We performed a bioinformatical analysis of protein export elements (PEXEL) in the putative proteome of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. A protein family-specific conservation of physicochemical residue profiles was found for PEXEL-flanking sequence regions. We demonstrate that the family members can be clustered based on the flanking regions only and display characteristic hydrophobicity patterns. This raises the possibility that the flanking regions may contain additional information for a family-specific role of PEXEL. We further show that signal peptide cleavage results in a positional alignment of PEXEL from both proteins with, and without, a signal peptide

    “The working language is Norwegian. Not that this means anything, it seems”: when expectations meet the new multilingual reality

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    Linguistic and cultural diversity in Northern Norwegian working life has increased dramatically in the twenty-first century. Based on a series of telephone interviews with company representatives, this article presents an overview of the new multilingual reality in many workplaces and analyzes how managers and administrators position their expectations and experiences of it. Participants’ responses suggest that many workplaces are linguistically segregated. Though most participants said their companies did not have explicit workplace language policies, they expressed clear perceptions of how things should be in their workplaces, and these were often in conflict with their descriptions of the status quo. We also show how multiple contextual conditions in and out of workplaces, both ideological and practical, informed participants’ accounts of multilingual practices in their workplaces. Static and normative ideological positions are challenged by employees’ language choices, practices, and developments on a societal level, particularly those of the labour market, which regulates companies’ access to workers. Our study reveals the need for applicable knowledge about multilingual practices and sociolinguistic relations in workplaces

    Sosiale roller og lokale og globale interesser i vurderingen av sprÄksituasjoner

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    Kommer det samiske sprÄket til Ä dÞ ut? Trusler mot det sprÄklige mangfoldet og mulig sprÄkdÞd er hyppig diskutert i det flersprÄklige Nord-Norge. Deltakere i denne diskursen er talere, lokale aktÞrer, forskere og fageksperter, statlige myndigheter, politikere og glo­bale organisasjoner som UNESCO. Denne studien tar utgangspunkt i tre ulike vurde­ringer av den samiske sprÄksituasjonen og sprÄkenes fremtidsperspektiver som ble presen­tert i forskjellige medietekster. Tekstanalysen viser hvordan disse representasjo­nene av sprÄksituasjonen involverer ulike sosiale roller og rollesett, og hvordan evalue­ringene pÄvirkes av disse. Operasjonaliseringen av rollesett i diskursen kan innebÊre konflikter mellom ulike interesser og effekter i kommunikasjonsprosessen, blant annet mellom globale og lokale perspektiver. Analysen viser at det er viktig Ä betrakte den diskursive konstruksjonen av trusler og varsler om truende sprÄkdÞd i lyset av de ulike sosiale rollene og interessene som pÄ ulike nivÄ deltar i Ä lage diskursen

    Workplace Multilingualism in Shifting Contexts: A Historical Case

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    This article investigates linguistic diversity, migration, and labour in the case of a nineteenth-century copper mine in the multilingual northern periphery of Norway. Taking a historical perspective on workplace multilingualism, it reveals the dynamic relationships between the economic interests and policy-making of an industrial enterprise and the political and sociolinguistic development in a multilingual region, at a time when national authorities introduced assimilation policies. Owned and managed by British industrialists, the mine recruited almost exclusively migrant workers to a remote fjord in the Norwegian periphery, many of them Kven from northern Finland and Sweden. In a multi-layered approach, the study sketches multilingual work practices, policy-making, and the discursive positioning of diversity, and explores the company's management of the relationships between capital, community, and nation-state. It reveals the company's flexible approach towards diversity governed by economic interest

    TromsĂž som samisk by? – SprĂ„kideologier og medienes rolle i sprĂ„kdebatten

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    This article presents a critical analysis of the discursive practices in the public debate on Sámi language in Tromsþ. The conflict around the political plan of Tromsþ municipality to join the administrative area for the Sámi language lasted for about one year and was largely carried out in the local newspapers, which had established themselves as an arena and broker in the conflict. The focus of this study is, on the one hand, on the role of the media in the debate and, on the other hand, on the socially constructed relations between Sámi and Norwegian language and social meanings, which get expressed in a highly ideological picture of language and local identity and form the ground for the language conflict. The analytic strategy is twofold: as a first step, the study focuses on the reproduction of language ideologies in letters to the editor and readers’ contributions to the local papers’ discussion pages. The identification of the three semiotic processes of iconization (rhematization), fractal recursivity, and erasure reveals how the writers’ expressions of opinion are anchored in a language ideology that connects Sámi language with certain social values and ignores a larger linguistic and cultural diversity in the town of Tromsþ. As a second step, the analysis explores the journalistic treatment of the multitude of conflicting voices in the debate and critically sheds light on the construction of a journalistic voice. Although the journalists claim to construe a seemingly neutral ground for their reports (or independent comments), the analysis shows that journalists use the representation of various voices in their texts to construe a positioned, evaluating, and ideologically anchored journalistic voice. In face of the highly ideological character of the language debate in Tromsþ, I argue that local journalism has failed in countering the ideological picture of language and society through information and independent journalism

    Sosiale roller og lokale og globale interesser i vurderingen av sprÄksituasjoner

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    Kommer det samiske sprÄket til Ä dÞ ut? Trusler mot det sprÄklige mangfoldet og mulig sprÄkdÞd er hyppig diskutert i det flersprÄklige Nord-Norge. Deltakere i denne diskursen er talere, lokale aktÞrer, forskere og fageksperter, statlige myndigheter, politikere og glo­bale organisasjoner som UNESCO. Denne studien tar utgangspunkt i tre ulike vurde­ringer av den samiske sprÄksituasjonen og sprÄkenes fremtidsperspektiver som ble presen­tert i forskjellige medietekster. Tekstanalysen viser hvordan disse representasjo­nene av sprÄksituasjonen involverer ulike sosiale roller og rollesett, og hvordan evalue­ringene pÄvirkes av disse. Operasjonaliseringen av rollesett i diskursen kan innebÊre konflikter mellom ulike interesser og effekter i kommunikasjonsprosessen, blant annet mellom globale og lokale perspektiver. Analysen viser at det er viktig Ä betrakte den diskursive konstruksjonen av trusler og varsler om truende sprÄkdÞd i lyset av de ulike sosiale rollene og interessene som pÄ ulike nivÄ deltar i Ä lage diskursen
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