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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
(2019-01-29)
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 ...
French-derived Adverbs in Middle English
(2020-05-15)
This MA thesis examines the adverbs borrowed from French during the Middle English period (ca. from the 12th century to the end of the 15th century). The research material consists of 150 French-derived adverbs. They were ...
The Last Hurrah : An examination of the social change in Britain between the 1930's and the 1960's as depicted in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novels
(2019-04-30)
This thesis discusses how the change in the British society and class system is reflected in three of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple novels written in the period of four decades: The Murder at the Vicarage (1930), The Body ...
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. ...
The pragmatic competence of Finnish and Japanese learners of English : a comparative study with emphasis on the effect of cultural differences
(2019-04-29)
This thesis studies the pragmatic competence of Finnish and Japanese English learners. The pragmatic competence of the learners in the two countries were compared for the implications the differences might have for teaching ...
Translating game achievements : Case study of The Long Dark and Spyro the Dragon
(2020-05-18)
Though localisation in general and video game localisation in particular is increasing in popularity as a subject of research within Translation Studies, it is still a recent phenomenon, and there are many subjects and ...
From Bowling Guides to Superstar Biographies – Translated Sports Literature in Finland 1972-2019
(2020-05-29)
This thesis presents a description of translated sports literature with English or Swedish as original language published in Finland between 1972 and 2019. The research material was acquired from The Finnish National Library ...
The Development of Death Notices in America : A Case Study of The New York Times from 1852 to 2002
(2020-05-19)
The present study focuses on the text type of death notices and their structural development in the American newspaper The New York Times between 1852 and 2002. Death notice is a term that is used when referring to short ...
Discursive Legitimation Strategies in Presidential Statements: A Case Study of the United States and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
(2019-04-23)
This thesis studies how two US presidents, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, aim to (de)legitimate their respective decisions on either to join the Paris Agreement on Climate Change or to withdraw from it. The two presidents’ ...
Lexical Variation, Target Preference and Language Attitudes with Respect to American and British Englishes : A Mixed Methods Study of Undergraduate Students of English in Finland
(2020-05-09)
The legitimacy of the English used by non-native speakers is an is an ongoing debate. This debate is intertwined with the question of which variety of English should be used as the model in formal education. This study ...