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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 ...
Depictions of the Land and Nature: Postcolonial–Ecocritical Reading of Ngugi’s The River Between
(2022-08-23)
In my thesis, I discuss how Ngugi wa Thiong’o uses nature to perform social critique and as a symbolic tool in his novel The River Between. I analyse the novel as postcolonial literature, using the theoretical framework ...
"Where did POTUS incite violence? Give me one quote." : Examining the role of social cognition in power abuse and in incitement to violence through critical discourse analysis
(2022-03-11)
Manipulation, power abuse and incitement to violence in political discourse are not new phenomena as such. The introduction of social media platforms as tools for mass communication have, however, brought on unprecedented ...
"We Need to Be Gracious to Ourselves, We Need to Be Gracious to the Students" : English Teachers' Experiences and Opinions about Distance Teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Finland
(2022-09-12)
This MA thesis examines English teachers’ dynamical opinions and experiences about distance teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland. Distance teaching in general has been a research subject for a long time, but ...
The Beginning of Visual Grammar Learning : Analysis on the Use of Graphical Content in 18th Century English Grammars
(2022-08-14)
This thesis examines the usage of graphical content in 18th-century English grammars. This century saw the rise of more inclusive grammar-writing, which resulted into more experimental approaches in teaching the language. ...