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Building Characters from Crumbs: How the Spatial Setting Influences Protagonist Development in Jojo Moyes’ Me before You
(2019-12-16)
This MA thesis studies how the narrative space and the spatial setting affect literary character’s development within a novel. I utilise Jojo Moyes’ novel Me before You as a primary source for my analysis. The protagonist ...
The Road to Success or Failure: Attributions among Finnish 8th Graders and Upper Secondary School Students Learning English as a Foreign Language
(2020-04-15)
Attribution is originally a concept from psychology, but the interest in it has expanded the research field. Attributions in SLA context have been studied since 1990s, but the research has mainly focused on gender differences ...
Feondlice wiccan, wisum dryum, and yfelre leodrunan - Lexical Variation and Syntagmatic Relations of the Old English Lexical Field of WITCH
(2019-11-01)
In this thesis I study the Old English words that mean ‘witch’, the distribution of the words in Old English texts and what kind of other words are connected to them, in order to determine how the different words are used ...
“Goose clear. Planting for cat.”: A register analysis on the in-game communication of professional players of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
(2019-09-30)
In recent years, videogames being played professionally as esports have grown in popularity, rivaling the viewership of more traditional sports. Academic research in the field of sports science has recognized communication ...
Definitions and subjective experience of bilingualism of Finnish University students of English
(2019-03-26)
This thesis examines the subjective definitions and experience of bilingualism of Finnish University students of English. Due to the participants’ exposure to English language and presumable high competence in the language, ...
“I have never seen a thin person drink diet coke.” – analysis of insults in Donald Trump’s tweets @realdonaldtrump
(2019-05-08)
The subject of this Master’s thesis deals with Donald Trump and the way he uses insults in his messages on the social media platform Twitter. His style of communication has attracted a lot of media attention and his tweets ...
Syntactic Complexity and Lexical Accuracy in the Written Production of Finnish EFL Learners : a Quantitative Study of 9th-graders’ and Upper Secondary School Students’ Texts
(2019-03-14)
This thesis analyzes syntactic complexity and lexical accuracy in the written English production of Finnish EFL learners. The main purpose is to examine the development of these two dimensions of learner language and the ...
Comparing Multi-Word Verb Use among Finnish-Speaking and Swedish-Speaking Adult EFL Learners
(2019-03-12)
The present study explores how adult English language learners with different L1s use English multi-word-verbs. The term multi-word-verbs refers to constructs that consist of a verb with either an adverbial particle, a ...
An admirable water for diseases of the luer, spleene, kidneis & all obstructions : Evaluation in the Titles of an Early Modern English Manuscript Recipe Book
(2018-10-24)
This study focuses on the evaluative function of recipe titles as evidenced in the early modern English manuscript recipe book MS V.a.619 (Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.619). The study comprises of a structural analysis ...
“Are you looking for an ambitious job in a fun and international environment?”: Aspects of Employer Branding in Recruitments Advertisements in the Netherlands and in India
(2019-05-13)
Recruitment advertisements have been studied and discussed by HR practitioners and academics alike, mostly by scholars coming from fields such as management and business studies, but they have received little attention ...