Research at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages covers a range of academic topics within language, literature, culture and civilization in English-speaking, German-speaking and French-speaking areas.
Research in foreign languages is occupied with human communication and interaction across linguistic and cultural borders. The approach to these questions varies: Linguistis at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages concentrate on structural and contrastive aspects of language, whereas research in literature and culture often explores various dimensions of aestetic and linguistic expressions.
The majority of research projects at the Department are individual, with researchers working independently in national and international networks. Larger research projects at the Department include "In the shadow of the Enlightenment", funded by Norges Forskningsråd, and "Motion Encoding in Language", funded by Den Nordiske samarbetsnämnden för samhällsforskning.
The following books were published in 2006:
Dekova, Rositsa Panayotova: Lexical Encoding of Verbs in English and Bulgarian. Doctoral dissertation supervised by Mila Vulchanova.
Folkvord, Ingvild; Hoel Aud Sissel: Ernst Cassirer: Form og teknikk - utvalgte tekster.
Neumann, Bernd Otto; Rainer Benjamin Hoppe: "Horizont aus Schlagbäumen"...?.
Oakland, John Gordon: British Civilization: an introduction, 6th edition.
Ringrose, Priscilla: Assia Djebar: In Dialogue with Feminisms.
Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Græsli, Bjørn Helge; Hauge, Helene; Midtgård, Tone Victoria: ENG1101 - English Language: An introduction to the structure of English - Coursebook.
Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Koeva, Svetla: The fith International conference. Formal Approaches to south Slavic and Balkan Languages.
Books published in 2005:
Folkvord, Ingvild: Patentløsninger og Fingerspitzgefühl. Om å veilede Phd-graden.
Goring, Paul: The rhetoric of sensibility in Eighteenth Century Culture.
Hawthorn, Jeremy: Studying the Novel.
Mauk, David & Oakland, John: American cvilization: an introduction.
Mitchell, Domhnall: Mesures of possibility: Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts.
Vulchanova, Mila, Åfarli, Tor A.: Grammar and beyond.
