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Code-switching between English and French in The Montreal Gazette
(2019-11-11)
This minor master’s thesis discusses code-switching from English to French in The Montreal Gazette, the main English-language newspaper in the Canadian province of Quebec. The focus of the study is on marked code-switching, ...
Components of 16th-century letters : A case study of Thomas More’s correspondence with Thomas Wolsey and Margaret Roper
(2020-05-14)
In this minor subject thesis are studied the correspondence of Thomas More from the point of view of letter-writing models. More’s letters’ form is compared to a model provided by Anneli Bergholm in her MA thesis from 2008. ...
Estella Havisham and Catherine Earnshaw : Two Women's Depictions in Victorian Literature
(2020-06-08)
This paper compares women's depiction through the main female character in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë with the lens of the Feminist theory. The qualitative nature of the ...
The setting of horror in six short stories by H. P. Lovecraft
(2022-05-03)
In this thesis I examine how the setting of horror is described and, thus, constructed in stories of weird
horror fiction by H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft (1890–1937) is known for his attention to setting and use
of ...
Women or Girls in Reality Television? Translating References to Females in the Reality Dating Show Love Connection
(Turun yliopisto, 2014-10-03)
Tässä sivuaineen tutkielmassa tarkastellaan, miten naisiin viittaavat sanat on käännetty suomalaisen, mutta pääosin englanniksi puhutun Love Connection -tosi-tvohjelman suomenkielisissä tekstityksissä. Tavoitteena on ...
From Motivation to Demotivation to Remotivation: Motivational Fluctuations in EFL Classrooms
(2021-02-18)
This thesis investigates demotivation and remotivation in EFL learning to find the factors causing demotivation among EFL learners and the efficient remotivational strategies in overcoming demotivation.
The thesis offers ...
Highlighted actions, hidden actors : Linguistic text analysis on branding Finnish education for purposes of Transnational education
(2021-06-13)
Finnish education has received global fame after excelling in the OECD’s PISA studies in early 2000’s. Success brought growing number of educational visitors to Finland and led eventually to the establishment of a national ...
Idioms and L2 Learners. The Effect of L1, Transparency and Frequency on Idiom Comprehension by Finnish and Italian Learners of English
(Turun yliopisto, 2014-08-29)
Tämän sivuaineen tutkielman tarkoituksena on selvittää, miten suomalaiset ja italialaiset englannin kielen opiskelijat tunnistavat englanninkielisten idiomien merkityksiä. Erityisesti opiskelijoiden oman äidinkielen ...
“The spoken course crushed me and now I'm afraid of pronunciation” : Foreign Language Anxiety among Finnish University Students of English
(2023-09-26)
The aim of this Minor Subject Thesis is to understand how Finnish university students of English, during their first year at university, experience Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) with regards to the four skills of language, ...
Justifiable Retribution : Women and Payback in Stephen King's "Big Driver" and "A Good Marriage"
(2022-10-31)
This study looks into justifiability of payback in two of Stephen King’s novellas “Big Driver” and “A Good Marriage” that center around violence against women. The purpose of this research is to find out, whether the ...