Selaus oppiaineen mukaan kokoelmassa Pro gradu -tutkielmat ja diplomityöt sekä syventävien opintojen opinnäytetyöt (kokotekstit) Englannin kieli
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A Comparative Discursive Psychological Analysis of American Shareholder Letters During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(25.11.2022)This study set out to analyse corporate discourse from the standpoint of discursive psychology, which approaches discourse analysis from a psychological point of view. The objective of the analysis was to find how corporate ...avoin -
A Comparative Survey Based Study on Finnish Comprehensive School and Upper Secondary School Students’ Motivation and Self- Efficacy in English Classroom
(06.04.2020)Motivation and self-efficacy have been widely studied during the past decades. Dörnyei (2005) created a new motivational framework, the L2 motivational self-system. Bandura’s (1977) concept of self-efficacy as a part of ...avoin -
A comparison of ll. 247-342 of the editions of The Proverbs of Alfred : advice on choosing a wife and the medieval literary view of women
(29.01.2019)The Proverbs of Alfred is a twelfth century didactic poem that survives today in four different thirteenth century manuscripts. The poem is set in the time of King Alfred (ca. eighth century) and there is a frame story in ...avoin -
“A Cosy, loving pair”? – The Elusion of Definitions of Queequeg and Ishmael’s Relationship in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
(15.11.2018)In this thesis I investigate Herman Melville’s sea novel Moby-Dick (1851), its depiction of the first same-sex marriage in American literature, and the way scholars have been unable to define the relationship of Queequeg ...avoin -
A Not So Lonely Planet : Framing Sustainable Travel on Lonely Planet’s Website: A Comparative Study
(06.05.2021)This thesis examines how the world’s largest travel guide publisher Lonely Planet addresses and frames the subject of sustainable travel in the articles and news featured on its website. The study is comparative, and the ...avoin -
A Study of African American Vernacular English in Three Novels and Colloquial Finnish in their Translations – The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three, A Time to Kill and Push
(Turun yliopisto, 29.10.2013)Pro gradu -tutkielma käsittelee afroamerikkalaisen puhekielen (African American Vernacular English, AAVE) käyttöä kolmen englanninkielisen romaanin dialogissa ja suomen yleispuhekielen käyttöä romaanien käännöksissä. ...avoin -
A Thematic analysis on LGBT+ Themes in Master of None’s Thanksgiving and Bojack Horseman’s Hooray, Todd
(05.04.2023)Representation is important to how we view the world surrounding us. Different media platforms have made it easier for people all over the world to access popular culture, such as music, films and television shows. LGBT+ ...avoin -
Acquisition of Prepositions in View of Crosslinguistic Influence and Input in L2 English : An Analysis of Ukrainian Learners’ Written Language
(18.11.2020)Recently, the focus on learners’ errors has been among the most relevant issues in second language acquisition. The aim of this paper is to study the erroneous forms produced in writing the English prepositions along with ...avoin -
Adequacy in Finnish Translations of Anglo-American Literature
(Turun yliopisto, 22.11.2010)Tutkielma käsittelee nykypäivän angloamerikkalaisen kaunokirjallisuuden suomentamista. Tutkimuksessa pyritään vahvistamaan tai kumoamaan hypoteesi, jonka mukaan angloamerikkalaisen kirjallisuuden suomentamistapa on tällä ...avoin -
Analysing the Man of Signs: A Study on the Changes of the Linguistic Elements and the Contexts of the Zodiac Man Figure in Early Modern Almanacks (1537–1603)
(06.04.2023)This thesis examines 48 English Early Modern printed almanacks. The material dates from 1537–1603 and is gathered from Early English Books Online. The purpose of this thesis was to analyse the language, contents, and visual ...avoin -
“Another immigrant comin’ up from the bottom” : reframing Alexander Hamilton’s life as an immigrant narrative through hip hop and historical fiction in Miranda’s Hamilton: an American musical
(21.11.2018)The thesis examines the libretto of Hamilton: An American Musical (2015) by Lin-Manuel Miranda and analyses how the play reframes the Founding Father Alexander Hamilton’s life as an immigrant narrative. Hamilton combines ...avoin -
Apology as a Speech Act Set : Apology Strategies of Social Media Influencers in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic
(23.03.2022)This thesis studies the apology strategies apparent in public apology posts of social media influencers which relate to the topic of the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2010s has seen the rise of influencers, seeing them acquire ...avoin -
Assessing the Role of Vocabulary Breadth and Depth in Reading Comprehension : A Quantitative Study of Finnish EFL Learners
(Turun yliopisto, 25.10.2018)In this MA thesis, Finnish learners of English were studied in order to examine the relationship between second language vocabulary size, vocabulary depth, and reading comprehension. In addition, given the well-established ...avoin -
Astrological prognostications in MS Beinecke 558: "Sonday prime drye wether"
(Turun yliopisto, 26.03.2010)Tutkimukseni käsittelee 1500-luvun keskivaiheilla kirjoitettua englanninkielistä käsikirjoitusta (New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and ManuscriptLibrary MS 558). Olen työssäni laatinut käsikirjoituksesta ...avoin -
Astrospeak in turns : Minimal sequences of conversation in institutional talk
(13.11.2018)Interaction in many professions or institutions has led to the development of domainspecific language varieties, or registers. To distinguish these forms of language from other, everyday registers, linguistics has grouped ...avoin -
Attitudes towards the Role of English and Their Effect on Performance: A Comparative Study of Non-Finnish and Finnish Language Background EFL Learners
(09.11.2019)In this master’s thesis, the attitudes towards the role of English in Finland of learners with a non-Finnish and Finnish language background were studied. Additionally, given the well-established connection between attitudes ...avoin -
Audiovisuaalisen käännöksen jälkieditointi toimivuuden näkökulmasta
(25.04.2023)Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa tarkastellaan, millaisia muutoksia jälkieditoija teki audiovisuaalisen käännöstekstityksen konekäännöspohjaan, sekä miten muutokset vaikuttavat käännösviestin toimivuuteen kuudella tasolla. ...avoin -
Boosting Future Prospects or Softening Promises of Success? The Use of Emphatics and Hedging in the Letter to Shareholders Sections of Annual Reports
(Turun yliopisto, 23.06.2008)Tämä pro gradu -tutkielma käsittelee yritysten vuosikertomusten Toimitusjohtajan katsaus -osioissa esiintyvää metatekstiä. Erityisenä tutkimuskohteena ovat yrityksen tulevaisuutta käsittelevät lauseet ja niissä käytetty ...avoin -
Borduunahattu ja läppäventtiili : Ylämaan säkkipillin ja uilleann pipesin keskeinen sanasto
(Turun yliopisto, 22.05.2017)Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena on esittää ylämaan säkkipilliin ja irlantilaiseen uilleann pipesiin liittyvä keskeinen terminologia. Säkkipillejä koskevaa terminologiaa, niin suomen- kuin englanninkielistäkään, ei ole ...avoin -
Bridging the lapses : the use of translator’s notes in fansubbing, a case study on Bangtan Subs
(10.01.2022)Fansubbing, a form of fan translation, is the subtitling of audiovisual media performed by fans of that media. Products of fansubbing, fansubs, sometimes contain translator's notes (abbreviated to T/N) which are situated ...avoin