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A Mixed-methods approach to indirect translation : A case study of the Finnish translations of modern Greek prose 1952–2004
Turun yliopiston julkaisuja - Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser B: Humaniora : 524 (Turun yliopisto, 07.12.2020)In this dissertation, I study indirect translation. Indirect translation is a translation made from a translation, and it may include compilative and/or collaborative practices, that is, many source texts may be used, or ... -
Alchemy in the vernacular: an edition and study of early English witnesses of The Mirror of Alchemy
Turun yliopiston julkaisuja - Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser B: Humaniora : 538 (Turun yliopisto, 27.05.2021)This study concerns an English-language alchemical work called <i>The Mirror of Alchemy (MoA).</i> I examine manuscript copies of <i>MoA</i> from the 15th to 17th centuries as well as a printed edition from 1597. The main ... -
Complexities of competence: A study on Finnish upper-secondary school students' lexical development and use of L2 English. A mixed-methods examination
Turun yliopiston julkaisuja - Annales Universitatis Turkuensis B: Humaniora : 655 (Turun yliopisto, 17.02.2024)The dissertation examines Finnish upper-secondary school second language use from four perspectives: the development of lexical knowledge in relation to extramural activities (Article I); the role of lexical recognition ... -
The Connectivity of Musical Aptitude and Foreign Language Learning Skills: Neural and Behavioural Evidence
Anglicana Turkuensia : 27 (Turun yliopisto, 13.11.2009)Given the structural and acoustical similarities between speech and music, and possible overlapping cerebral structures in speech and music processing, a possible relationship between musical aptitude and linguistic ... -
Cultural and textual properties in the translation and interpretation of allusions. An analysis of allusions in Dorothy L. Sayers’ detective novels translated into Finnish in the 1940s and the 1980s
Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja B, Humaniora : 330 (Turun yliopisto, 10.12.2010)<b>Kulttuuriset ja tekstuaaliset tekijät alluusioiden kääntämisessä ja tulkinnassa. Alluusiot Dorothy L. Sayersin 1940- ja 1980-luvuilla suomennetuissa salapoliisiromaaneissa</b> Väitöskirja käsittelee alluusioiden ... -
Early English Debate Poetry as Conflict Talk
Anglicana Turkuensia : 32 (Turun yliopisto, 02.12.2017)This study examines conflict-related features in a corpus of English debate poems from ca. 1250–1650. The dataset includes 30 central texts of varying lengths from the medieval and early modern periods. The theoretical ... -
Exploring Agency in the Construction of a Translated Character Narrative: A Multiple-Case Study on Early Sibelius-Related Translations into Finnish
Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja B, Humaniora : 628 (Turun yliopisto, 10.06.2023)This dissertation explores the application of the sociological narrative theory in Translation Studies, with a focus on the Finnish translations of texts related to Finland’s national composer, Jean Sibelius. Drawing on ... -
Gendered sexual violence and complicity: A Postcolonial study of selected works by J. M. Coetzee
Turun yliopiston julkaisuja - Annales Universitatis Turkuensis B: Humaniora : 656 (Turun yliopisto, 24.08.2024)Colonial expansionism has a legacy with continuing effects in the modern era, and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee’s works are nuanced fictional responses to that legacy. In this dissertation, I analyse the trajectory of the ... -
Historical appraisal analysis: evaluation of the book in sixteenth-century England
Turun yliopiston julkaisua - Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser. B: Humaniora : 562 (Turun yliopisto, 04.12.2021)This dissertation is a study of the evaluation of the book in the English Renaissance. The purpose of the study is to find out what a good book was like in sixteenth-century England, what personal and societal attitudes ... -
Individual and interactional speech fluency in L2 English from a problem-solving perspective : A mixed-methods approach
Turun yliopiston julkaisuja - Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser B: Humaniora : 517 (Turun yliopisto, 11.09.2020)This study examines second language (L2) speech fluency and resources for maintaining it based on monologue and dialogue data. The study extends previous L2 speech fluency research by making three theoretical–methodological ... -
Materialized discourses in the landscape : language, multimodality and agency in a school in Southwest Finland
Turun yliopiston julkaisua -Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser. B: Humaniora : 531 (Turun yliopisto, 19.03.2021)This thesis investigates materialized discourses in a landscape of education in Southwest Finland. It focuses on the construction of student identities through the school landscape and the materialized discourses that ... -
Narrating Deliverance: The Literary Double in the Writing of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Bharati Mukherjee
Turun yliopiston julkaisua - Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser. B: Humaniora : 605 (Turun yliopisto, 24.02.2023)This dissertation studies the literary double in contemporary fiction by three Bengali American writers: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Bharati Mukherjee. The main focus is on examining what is expressed ... -
Paratextuality in Manuscript and Print : Verbal and Visual Presentation of the Middle English Polychronicon
Turun yliopiston julkaisuja - Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser B: Humaniora : 512 (Turun yliopisto, 22.05.2020)This study investigates the verbal and visual presentation of text across manuscript and print media through the concept of paratext. The term collectively refers to the various textual and visual elements which surround ... -
Quest/ion of Identities in African American Feminist Postmodern Drama: A Study of Selected Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks
Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja B, Humaniora : 419 (Turun yliopisto, 10.06.2016)Innovative and unconventional, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks belongs to the continuum of African American playwrights who have contributed to the quest/ion – the quest for and question – of identities ... -
The Ethics of Representation in the Fiction of Amitav Ghosh
Anglicana Turkuensia : 30 (Turun yliopisto, 17.06.2011) -
The Philological-Pragmatic Approach : A Study of Language Choice and Code-Switching in Early Modern English School Performances
Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja B, Humaniora : 499 (Turun yliopisto, 05.12.2019)In this study I set out to account for certain central aspects of language choice and code-switching. My purpose is twofold: to explain why people use multiple languages within a single discourse or choose to use a particular ...
