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Publications

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Some of the papers have summaries in English.

Forthcoming publications

Berthelin, Signe Rix & Borthen, Kaja. (accepted). The Semantics and Pragmatics of Norwegian sentence-internal Norwegian jo. Accepted for publication in Nordic Journal of Linguistics.

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Publications

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Borthen, Kaja. (2018). Store spørsmål om små ord. Innledning til temanummer om pragmatiske partikler i norsk. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift  36(2), 225–248. Special volume on Norwegian pragmatic markers. Title in English: Big questions about small words. Introduction to thematic volume on pragmatic particles in Norwegian. 

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Borthen, Kaja. (2018). Pronominal høyredislokering i norsk, det er et interessant fenomen, det! Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift  36(2), 403–452. Special volume on Norwegian pragmatic markers. Title in English: Right dislocation of pronouns in Norwegian, it's an interesting phenomenon, it! 

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Borthen, Kaja & Søfteland, Åshild. (2018). «Æ e trønder æ, sjø!» Den pragmatiske partikkelen sjø i midt-norske dialektar. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift 36(2), 249–280. Special volume on Norwegian pragmatic markers. Title in English: "I'm Trønder, sjø!" The pragmatic particle sjø in mid-Norwegian dialects. 

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Berthelin, Signe Rix. (2018). Midtstilt da – en semantisk-pragmatisk redegjørelse og en sammenlikning med etterstilt da. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift 36(2), 353–402. Special volume on Norwegian pragmatic markers. Title in English: Sentence internal da - a semantic-pragmatic account and a comparison with tag da. 

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Eidsmo, Aleksander. (2018). «Tvert imot, det er mye vi ikke vet.» En studie av bruksbetingelsene til diskursmarkøren tvert imot. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift 36(2), 281–298. Special volume on Norwegian pragmatic markers. Title in English: "On the contrary, there is a lot we do not know." A study of the use conditions of the discourse marker tvert imot. 

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Unger, Christoph. (2018). Sosial mening, pragmatiske partikler og pragmatisk teori. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift 36(2), 331–352. Special volume on Norwegian pragmatic markers. Title in English: Social meaning, pragmatic particles and pragmatic theory. 

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Unger, Christoph. (2018). A cross-linguistic puzzle and its theoretical implications: Norwegian ’jo’, German ’doch’ and ’ja’, and an advertisement. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 41(3), 309–332.

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Borthen, Kaja. (2017) "Språk, altså!" Store spørsmål om små ord. MONS 17 Møter om Norsk Språk; 2017-11-22 - 2017-11-24. University of Bergen, Norway. Keynote address. Title in English: Language, eh! Big questions about small words.

 

Unger, Christoph. (2017). Social costs of epistemic vigilance and premises in arguments. 2nd European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Inference; 2017-06-20 - 2017-06-23

 

Unger, Christoph. (2017). Social meanings conveyed by discourse particles: between background and foreground. 15th International Pragmatics Conference 2017; 2017-07-16 - 2017-07-21 
 

Unger, Christoph. (2017). Towards a relevance theory account of allegory. I: Applications of Relevance Theory From Discourse to Morphemes. Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017 ISBN 978-1-4438-7280-5. s. 152-174

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Borthen, Kaja. (2016). Six methodological approaches to pragmatic particles: a case study of Norwegian 'da'. Workshop Researching Pragmatic Particles in Communication: Cognitive, argumentative and social dimensions. NTNU, 2016-05-18 - 2016-05-20. 

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Johannessen, Maria Boer. (2016). On the semantics and pragmatics of the Norwegian tag 'ass'. Workshop Researching Pragmatic Particles in Communication: Cognitive, argumentative and social dimensions. NTNU, 2016-05-18 - 2016-05-20. 

 

Borthen, Kaja. (2016). Norwegian pronominal right-dislocation - "Det er morsomt, det!". LCIS-seminar; 2016-05-10 - 2016-05-10

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Borthen, Kaja & Unger, Christoph. (2016). The meaning and interpretation of the Norwegian evidential marker visst. Between (stable) meanings and (unstable) interpretations; 2016-09-15 - 2016-09-16. University of Krakow, Poland.
 

Borthen, Kaja; Ree, Nils Arne; Robbins, Sissel Vuttudal & Busterud, Guro. (2016). Pragmatiske partikler i norsk som andrespråk. Hvordan undervise om etterstilt 'da'?. Den sjuende nasjonale forskningskonferansen om norsk som andrespråk; 2016-10-20 - 2016-10-21. NTNU, Norway. Title in English: Pragmatic particles in Norwegian as a second language. How should we teach tag da?

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Søfteland, Åshild & Borthen, Kaja. (2016) Han er kald lufta, sjø. Analysar av den pragmatiske markøren 'sjø' i norske dialektar. Gramino - grammatikk i Norden. University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Title in English: Analyses of the pragmatic marker sjø in Norwegian dialects.

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Unger, Christoph. (2016). A cross-linguistic puzzle and its theoretical implications: Norwegian 'jo', German 'doch' and 'ja', and an advertisement. Researching pragmatic particles in communication: cognitive, argumentative and social dimensions; 2016-05-18 - 2016-05-20. NTNU, Norway.
 

Unger, Christoph. (2016). Degrees of procedure activation and the German modal particles 'ja' and 'doch' - Part 1. Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 2016 ;Volum 133.(1) s. 31-45
 

Unger, Christoph. (2016). Degrees of procedure activation and the German modal particles 'ja' and 'doch' - Part 2. Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 2016 ;Volum 133.(1) s. 47-61
 

Unger, Christoph. (2016). Degrees of procedure activation and the German modal particles 'ja' and 'doch' - Part 3. Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 2016 ;Volum 133.(1) s. 63-74
 

Unger, Christoph. (2016). Evidentials, genre and epistemic vigilance. I: Relevance Theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions. John Benjamins Publishing Company 2016 ISBN 9789027266484. s. 239-258
 

Unger, Christoph. (2016). Exclamatives, exclamations and speaker's meaning. Between (stable) meanings and (unstable) interpretations; 2016-09-15 - 2016-09-16. University of Krakow, Poland

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Borthen, Kaja & Kveen, Perlaug Marie. 2015. "Åja, dæ æ MONS au nå, da mata" Semantiske og pragmatiske aspekt ved den pragmatiske markøren ‘da mata'. Møter om norsk språk (MONS) 16, Universitetet i Agder, Kristiansand 25.-27. november, 2015. Title in English: "Oh, it's time for MONS now, da mata" Semantic and pragmatic aspects of the pragmatic markerda mata.

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Søfteland, Åshild & Borthen, Kaja. 2015. "Æ e trønder æ, sjø!" Semantiske og pragmatiske aspekter ved 'sjø'. Møter om norsk språk (MONS) 16, Universitetet i Agder, Kristiansand 25.-27. november, 2015. Title in English: "I'm Trønder, sjø!" Semantic and pragmatic aspects of sjø. 

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Borthen, Kaja. 2015. Om småord som ‘jo’, ‘visst’ og ‘da’. Hva bidrar de med? Norsk oversetterforenings høstseminar, 2.-4. Oktober 2015. Title in English: On little words like jo, visst, and da. How do they contribute?

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Borthen, Kaja & Karagjósova, Elena. 2015. Om betydningen til etterhengt 'da' og andre ikke-sannhetsfunksjonelle ord: Hvilke forskningsmetoder skal vi bruke? Språkdagen ved HF NTNU Norway, 06.02.2015. Title in English: On the meaning of tag da and other non-truthconditional words. Which research methods should we use?

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Unger, Christoph. (2015). Degrees of procedure activation and the German modal particles ja and doch. Paper delivered at Relevance Round Table Meeting 4. Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University of Kraków, September 2015.

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Kveen, Perlaug Marie & Borthen, Kaja (2015). About the tag 'da mata'. NOT workshop April 4th 2015. NTNU, Norway.

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Unger, Christoph. (2015). A framework for studying evidentiality. NOT workshop April 4th. NTNU, Norway.

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Borthen, Kaja, Landgraff, Utne Espen & Klepsvik, Åshild (2015). Results from questionnaires on the tag 'da'. NOT workshop April 4th. NTNU, Norway.

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Landgraff, Espen Utne. (2015). Sentence internal 'da'. NOT workshop April 4th 2015. NTNU, Norway.

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Søfteland, Åshild & Borthen, Kaja (2015). About the tag 'sjø'. NOT workshop April 4th 2015. NTNU, Norway.

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Borthen, Kaja. 2014. Hva betyr 'da', da? Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift,  257-306. Title in English: What does tag da mean? 

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Borthen, Kaja & Knudsen, Cecilie Slinning. 2014. Semantiske og pragmatiske aspekter ved trykklett 'visst'. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift, 360-411. Title in English: Semantic and pragmatic aspects of unaccentuated visst. 

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Borthen, Kaja & Knudsen, Cecilie Slinning. 2014. 'Visst' er visst en evidensmarkør. Språkdagen ved HF NTNU Norway, 06.02.2014. Title in English: Visst is apparently an evidential marker.

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Borthen, Kaja . (2014). A relevance-theoretic analysis of the Norwegian tag 'da'. Interpreting for Relevance 2014. Warsaw, 29.09-30.09 2014. University of Warsaw, Poland.

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Borthen, Kaja. (2014). Experimental approaches to the meaning of the pragmatic particle 'da'; some ideas. The SCaLa (speech, cognition, and language) group's research meetings, 29.05.2014. NTNU, Norway.

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Berthelin, Signe Rix, Borthen, Kaja, & Knudsen, Cecilie Slinning. (2013). Midtstillet 'jo' - semantiske og pragmatiske aspekter. Presentasjon på Møter om norsk språk (MONS), University of Oslo, Norway. Title in English: Sentence internal jo - semantic and pragmatic aspects.

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Knudsen, Cecilie Slinning, Borthen, Kaja & Berthelin, Signe Rix. 2013. Semantiske og pragmatiske aspekter ved midtstilt/etterhengt 'visst'. Presentasjon på Møter om norsk språk (MONS), University of Oslo, Norway. Title in English: Semantic and pragmatic aspects of internal/tag visst.

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