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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 yliopisto, 2020-12-07)
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 ...
Narrating Deliverance: The Literary Double in the Writing of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Bharati Mukherjee
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-02-24)
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 ...
Individual and interactional speech fluency in L2 English from a problem-solving perspective : A mixed-methods approach
(Turun yliopisto, 2020-09-11)
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 ...
Complexities of competence: A study on Finnish upper-secondary school students' lexical development and use of L2 English. A mixed-methods examination
(Turun yliopisto, 2024-02-17)
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 ...
Paratextuality in Manuscript and Print : Verbal and Visual Presentation of the Middle English Polychronicon
(Turun yliopisto, 2020-05-22)
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 ...
Historical appraisal analysis: evaluation of the book in sixteenth-century England
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-12-04)
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 ...
The Ethics of Representation in the Fiction of Amitav Ghosh
(Turun yliopisto, 2011-06-17)
Materialized discourses in the landscape : language, multimodality and agency in a school in Southwest Finland
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-03-19)
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 ...
Gendered sexual violence and complicity: A Postcolonial study of selected works by J. M. Coetzee
(Turun yliopisto, 2024-08-24)
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 ...
Quest/ion of Identities in African American Feminist Postmodern Drama: A Study of Selected Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks
(Turun yliopisto, 2016-06-10)
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 ...