Guri Bordal Steien
Biographic Data
| ID | 809961 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guri Bordal Steien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guri Bordal |
| FAMILY NAME | Steien |
| SIGNATURE | STEIEN G B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Inland Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4952-2374 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Precarity in an adult refugee’s basic literacy learning
With this article, we respond to recent calls within research on language learning for a greater focus on societal impact by drawing attention to the needs of different learner groups. We are concerned with a group of learners who have received limited attention in the field: adult refugees with limited prior schooling who enter graphocentric spaces. Language learning is often an inevitability for this group. For instance, in Norway, where our re…
“We were attacked due to our language”: Kinyabwisha in the family language policies of refugees from the DR Congo in Norway
In this article, we investigate the role of the Kinyabwisha language in the family language policies (FLPs) of six refugee families from DR Congo resettled in Norway. In these families, parents list Kinyabwisha as part of their otherwise varied linguistic repertoires and say they usually use it with one another. However, our ethnographic fieldwork within the larger KongNor project has revealed that the parents are reluctant to transmit Kinyabwish…
On the pragmatic function of utterance-level declination as deployed by speakers with multilingual repertoires
Aim and objectives/purpose/research questions: The aim of this study is to examine the pragmatic function of utterance-level declination as used in conversations in French and Norwegian by 10 migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) living in Norway whose repertoires are highly multilingual. Design/methodology/approach: To investigate this contour, we draw on insights from different fields, that is, research on multilingualism, Conver…
Language Learning and Forced Migration
‘In Uganda, We Collected Them in the Streets’: On (the Absence of) the Street as a Language Learning Space
Mashi – this language was in my ears: Metaphors of ‘language’ in language autobiographies narrated by Congolese migrants in Norway
In order to understand the process of learning new languages as adults, we need to take into account learners’ past experiences with all of their language(s), as such experiences shape attitudes and conceptualizations. In this paper, we present an analysis of metaphorical expressions in the narrated linguistic biographies of (former) refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Norway. The participants speak a multitude of languages, e…
Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact: Supplementary material: Sound files accompanying spectograms
Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact
This article presents a descriptive and theoretical framework for the analysis of prosodic systems that have emerged from contact between African tone and European intonation-only languages. A comparative study of the prosodic systems of two Romance contact varieties, Central African French and Equatorial Guinean Spanish, shows that they feature two-tone systems, fixed word tone patterns, tonal minimal pairs, the arbitrary assignment of tone in f…
Prétendre comme si on connaît pas une autre langue que le swahili: Multilingual parents in Norway on change and continuity in their family language policies
In this article, we examine how parents explain their choices of transmitting certain languages to their children, a key element of family language policies (FLP), in light of their dynamic linguistic repertoires and biographic experiences. Contributing to the framework of FLP, we focus in particular on parents' memories, their narratives of multilingual upbringing in the past, and how these are used to construct present FLP. We analyze conversat…
The production of Norwegian tones by multilingual non-native speakers
Aim and objectives/purpose/research questions: The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which multilingual second language (L2) speakers of Norwegian manage to produce lexical pitch accents (L*H ̄ or H*LH ̄) as expected in natural spontaneous speech. Using native speech as a reference, we analyse realizations of multilingual speakers whose respective dominant languages are Lingala, a lexical tone language, and Swahili, a non-tonal langua…
L'intonation du français L3: Le cas de locuteurs de norvégien L1 et d'anglais L2
Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons aux contours de finalité d'énoncés déclaratifs produits par des locuteurs norvégiens dont le français est la L3 et l'anglais la L2. Le norvégien a la particularité de présenter un contour intonatif montant dans ce contexte. Nous montrons que les apprenants norvégiens tendent à transférer ce contour en français mais que le fait d'avoir acquis le contour descendant de l'anglais peut, dans certains cas, facili…
Akissi Béatrice Boutin et Jérémie Kouadio N'Guessan (dirs) Le français dans les métropoles africaines Numéro spécial du Français en Afrique , n ̊ 30, 2016
que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
La prosodie du français en contact: Présentation
et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact
This article presents a descriptive and theoretical framework for the analysis of prosodic systems that have emerged from contact between African tone and European intonation-only languages. A comparative study of the prosodic systems of two Romance contact varieties, Central African French and Equatorial Guinean Spanish, shows that they feature two-tone systems, fixed word tone patterns, tonal minimal pairs, the arbitrary assignment of tone in f…
Prétendre comme si on connaît pas une autre langue que le swahili: Multilingual parents in Norway on change and continuity in their family language policies
In this article, we examine how parents explain their choices of transmitting certain languages to their children, a key element of family language policies (FLP), in light of their dynamic linguistic repertoires and biographic experiences. Contributing to the framework of FLP, we focus in particular on parents' memories, their narratives of multilingual upbringing in the past, and how these are used to construct present FLP. We analyze conversat…
La prosodie du français en contact: Présentation
et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
L'intonation du français L3: Le cas de locuteurs de norvégien L1 et d'anglais L2
Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons aux contours de finalité d'énoncés déclaratifs produits par des locuteurs norvégiens dont le français est la L3 et l'anglais la L2. Le norvégien a la particularité de présenter un contour intonatif montant dans ce contexte. Nous montrons que les apprenants norvégiens tendent à transférer ce contour en français mais que le fait d'avoir acquis le contour descendant de l'anglais peut, dans certains cas, facili…
Akissi Béatrice Boutin et Jérémie Kouadio N'Guessan (dirs) Le français dans les métropoles africaines Numéro spécial du Français en Afrique , n ̊ 30, 2016
que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
La prosodie du français en contact: Présentation
et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
The production of Norwegian tones by multilingual non-native speakers
Aim and objectives/purpose/research questions: The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which multilingual second language (L2) speakers of Norwegian manage to produce lexical pitch accents (L*H ̄ or H*LH ̄) as expected in natural spontaneous speech. Using native speech as a reference, we analyse realizations of multilingual speakers whose respective dominant languages are Lingala, a lexical tone language, and Swahili, a non-tonal langua…
Prétendre comme si on connaît pas une autre langue que le swahili: Multilingual parents in Norway on change and continuity in their family language policies
In this article, we examine how parents explain their choices of transmitting certain languages to their children, a key element of family language policies (FLP), in light of their dynamic linguistic repertoires and biographic experiences. Contributing to the framework of FLP, we focus in particular on parents' memories, their narratives of multilingual upbringing in the past, and how these are used to construct present FLP. We analyze conversat…
Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact: Supplementary material: Sound files accompanying spectograms
Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact
This article presents a descriptive and theoretical framework for the analysis of prosodic systems that have emerged from contact between African tone and European intonation-only languages. A comparative study of the prosodic systems of two Romance contact varieties, Central African French and Equatorial Guinean Spanish, shows that they feature two-tone systems, fixed word tone patterns, tonal minimal pairs, the arbitrary assignment of tone in f…
Mashi – this language was in my ears: Metaphors of ‘language’ in language autobiographies narrated by Congolese migrants in Norway
In order to understand the process of learning new languages as adults, we need to take into account learners’ past experiences with all of their language(s), as such experiences shape attitudes and conceptualizations. In this paper, we present an analysis of metaphorical expressions in the narrated linguistic biographies of (former) refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Norway. The participants speak a multitude of languages, e…
On the pragmatic function of utterance-level declination as deployed by speakers with multilingual repertoires
Aim and objectives/purpose/research questions: The aim of this study is to examine the pragmatic function of utterance-level declination as used in conversations in French and Norwegian by 10 migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) living in Norway whose repertoires are highly multilingual. Design/methodology/approach: To investigate this contour, we draw on insights from different fields, that is, research on multilingualism, Conver…
Language Learning and Forced Migration
‘In Uganda, We Collected Them in the Streets’: On (the Absence of) the Street as a Language Learning Space
Precarity in an adult refugee’s basic literacy learning
With this article, we respond to recent calls within research on language learning for a greater focus on societal impact by drawing attention to the needs of different learner groups. We are concerned with a group of learners who have received limited attention in the field: adult refugees with limited prior schooling who enter graphocentric spaces. Language learning is often an inevitability for this group. For instance, in Norway, where our re…
“We were attacked due to our language”: Kinyabwisha in the family language policies of refugees from the DR Congo in Norway
In this article, we investigate the role of the Kinyabwisha language in the family language policies (FLPs) of six refugee families from DR Congo resettled in Norway. In these families, parents list Kinyabwisha as part of their otherwise varied linguistic repertoires and say they usually use it with one another. However, our ethnographic fieldwork within the larger KongNor project has revealed that the parents are reluctant to transmit Kinyabwish…
Linguistics (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Norwegian (4 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · First language (3 works)