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Early English Debate Poetry as Conflict Talk
(Turun yliopisto, 2017-12-02)
This study examines conflict-related features in a corpus of English debate poems from ca. 1250–1650. The dataset includes 30 central texts of varying lengths from the medieval and early modern periods. The theoretical ...
Historical appraisal analysis: evaluation of the book in sixteenth-century England
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-12-04)
This dissertation is a study of the evaluation of the book in the English Renaissance. The purpose of the study is to find out what a good book was like in sixteenth-century England, what personal and societal attitudes ...
Paratextuality in Manuscript and Print : Verbal and Visual Presentation of the Middle English Polychronicon
(Turun yliopisto, 2020-05-22)
This study investigates the verbal and visual presentation of text across manuscript and print media through the concept of paratext. The term collectively refers to the various textual and visual elements which surround ...
The Philological-Pragmatic Approach : A Study of Language Choice and Code-Switching in Early Modern English School Performances
(Turun yliopisto, 2019-12-05)
In this study I set out to account for certain central aspects of language choice and code-switching. My purpose is twofold: to explain why people use multiple languages within a single discourse or choose to use a particular ...
Quest/ion of Identities in African American Feminist Postmodern Drama: A Study of Selected Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks
(Turun yliopisto, 2016-06-10)
Innovative and unconventional, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks belongs to the continuum of African American playwrights who have contributed to the quest/ion – the quest for and question – of identities ...
Alchemy in the vernacular: an edition and study of early English witnesses of The Mirror of Alchemy
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-05-27)
This study concerns an English-language alchemical work called <i>The Mirror of Alchemy (MoA).</i> I examine manuscript copies of <i>MoA</i> from the 15th to 17th centuries as well as a printed edition from 1597. The main ...
A Mixed-methods approach to indirect translation : A case study of the Finnish translations of modern Greek prose 1952–2004
(Turun yliopisto, 2020-12-07)
In this dissertation, I study indirect translation. Indirect translation is a translation made from a translation, and it may include compilative and/or collaborative practices, that is, many source texts may be used, or ...
Individual and interactional speech fluency in L2 English from a problem-solving perspective : A mixed-methods approach
(Turun yliopisto, 2020-09-11)
This study examines second language (L2) speech fluency and resources for maintaining it based on monologue and dialogue data. The study extends previous L2 speech fluency research by making three theoretical–methodological ...
Cultural and textual properties in the translation and interpretation of allusions. An analysis of allusions in Dorothy L. Sayers’ detective novels translated into Finnish in the 1940s and the 1980s
(Annales Universitatis Turkuensis B 330Turun yliopisto, 2010-12-10)
<b>Kulttuuriset ja tekstuaaliset tekijät alluusioiden kääntämisessä ja tulkinnassa. Alluusiot Dorothy L. Sayersin 1940- ja 1980-luvuilla suomennetuissa salapoliisiromaaneissa</b>
Väitöskirja käsittelee alluusioiden ...
The Connectivity of Musical Aptitude and Foreign Language Learning Skills: Neural and Behavioural Evidence
(Turun yliopisto, 2009-11-13)
Given the structural and acoustical similarities between speech and music, and possible overlapping cerebral structures in speech and music processing, a possible relationship between musical aptitude and linguistic ...