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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Master’s Thesis is a comparative study of two North American English translations of Fuyumi Ono’s Japanese fantasy novel Tsuki no Kage, Kage no Umi (‘Shadow of the Moon, Sea of Shadows’). The earlier translation of ...

Tässä tutkielmassa käsitellään markkinointi- ja promootiotekstien kääntämistä. Tarkastelun kohteena on suomalaisen designyrityksen Marimekon kotisivuilla oleva yritysesittely ja erityisesti osio, jossa yritys kertoo ...

Elderly learners, those retiring from working life, have not been a popular target group for research in the field of second language acquisition, although they are a fast-growing segment of language learners. The purpose ...

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 ...