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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 ...
Namibian primary school teachers’ beliefs and practices in a multilingual context. Language ideologies underlying the language education policy and its implementation
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-04-29)
This study explores Namibian primary school teachers’ beliefs about schools’ language policy and the medium of instruction, as well as their classroom practices in the multilingual context. It describes and interprets the ...
Exploring Agency in the Construction of a Translated Character Narrative: A Multiple-Case Study on Early Sibelius-Related Translations into Finnish
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-06-10)
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 ...
Invenitive-locational constructions in Finnish: A mixed methods approach
(University of Tartu, 2024-05-03)
Eri kielissä on erilaisia tapoja ilmaista, missä asiat sijaitsevat. Nämä erilaiset kieliopilliset strategiat riippuvat esimerkiksi siitä, puhummeko kivistä, puista, eläimistä vai ihmisistä, ovatko ne konkreettisessa tai ...
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 ...
Syntactic Complexity in L2 Swedish: The Effects of Language Proficiency, Mode of Production, and Individual Variation
(Turun yliopisto, 2024-11-30)
This dissertation examines syntactic complexity in learner Swedish. Syntactic complexity is explored through both absolute and relative complexity. Absolute complexity refers to linguistic, structural complexity, and ...
Murre ja sen tutkimus: Näkökulmia fennistisen murteentutkimuksen historiaan ja kieli-ideologioihin 1871–2017
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-06-09)
Tämän väitöskirjan aihe on murre ja se, miten murretta on suomen kielen alalla tutkittu. Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan, miten yksilön puheesta syntyy ja on syntynyt tutkimuksen prosessissa tieteellistä tietoa murteista eli ...
EGO/Speaker deixis: Ego-Centered Motion Metaphors of Time between Arabic and English – A Comparative Corpus-based Study
(Turun yliopisto, 2024-06-27)
Using a corpus cognitive-linguistic approach, the present study examines the deictic composition of Ego-centered motion metaphors of time (EMTs) in Arabic and English. EMTs are metaphors that describe the passage of time ...
Subjekt, indefinithet och adverbial: Textstruktur och syntax i äldre fornsvenska
(Turun yliopisto, 2024-01-19)
<b>Subjects, indefiniteness and adverbials. Textual structure and syntax in Early Old Swedish</b>
The main goal of this dissertation is to explain the significance of text-internal cohesion for syntactic variation in ...
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 ...