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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 ...
Forms and functions of codeswitching to Hindi/Urdu in Indian English and Pakistani English
(2020-05-22)
This study examines the forms and functions of codeswitching to Hindi/Urdu in Indian English and Pakistani English. The aim is to find out how these local languages manifest and are used in the local non-native variety of ...
“The race of the officer was not disclosed” : A systemic functional grammar analysis of the Ferguson shooting media coverage
(2020-05-16)
This thesis examined the representation of African Americans in the Ferguson news coverage in CNN and Fox News online news using critical discourse studies, systemic functional grammar and corpus linguistics methodology. ...
Language learner identity and aptitude : a comparative study between Finnish and Chilean students and teachers of English
(2019-04-30)
Language identity and language aptitude are individual traits closely related to the foreign language learner be it a student or a teacher. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between these two concepts ...
Conversational Principles, Structure and Prosody in Silent Hill 2: A Case Study of Video Game Dialogue
(2020-05-07)
This research was conducted in order to investigate the dialogue in the video game Silent Hill 2 from a discourse analytical perspective. More specifically, the research questions posed for the purpose of this study pertain ...
Frame Change Due to Policy Change: A Corpus Study of the Changing Frame of Israel in the US Media After Jerusalem Was Recognized as Capital
(2020-04-09)
This thesis examines the change in frame caused by political decision making. The USA decided to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December 2017, changing their policy and tradition that has been in use for nearly ...
Assessing the Role of Vocabulary Breadth and Depth in Reading Comprehension : A Quantitative Study of Finnish EFL Learners
(Turun yliopisto, 2018-10-25)
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 ...
Murteiden kääntäminen Mark Twainin romaanin Adventures of Huckleberry Finn kolmessa uudelleensuomennoksessa
(2020-04-28)
Tässä tutkielmassa käsitellään Mark Twainin teoksen Adventures of Huckleberry Finn murrepiirteiden kääntämistä eriaikaisissa uudelleensuomennoksissa. Tutkimusaineistona on Kivimiehen suomennos vuodelta 1927, Laineen suomennos ...
If it Weighs as Much as a Duck, it’s Made of Wood, and Therefore a Witch : Direct and Indirect Accusations of Witchcraft in Depositions of the Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
(2019-05-21)
The material for this thesis comes from the original depositions that have survived from the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692. The aim of the thesis is to show that the depositions contain both direct and indirect accusations ...
Finnish Advanced EFL Learners’ Comprehension of Connotations in English
(2019-05-10)
Connotation is a word’s additional meaning or mental association and it can be perceived as positive, neutral, or negative. In the present study, connotations were looked at in terms of emotional charge, associations or ...