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A Diachronic Study of the Practises of Translation of Gerunds and Gerundives from Latin into Old English and Middle English in History Narratives
(21.03.2016)This is a philologically oriented thesis which studies the possible adoption of a grammatical feature from one language into another from historical linguistic perspective. The foci of the study are, on the one hand, the ... -
A longitudinal study on the lexical sophistication and sentence length in Finnish upper secondary school students’ English compositions.
(26.08.2016)The aim of the present study was to find out the level of lexical sophistication and the mean length of sentences used in compositions written by Finnish upper secondary school students of English. In addition, the present ... -
Activate Your Personal Webshooters : Translation and the Marvel Method
(Turun yliopisto, 05.06.2018)This thesis examines the traditional style of creating comic books at Marvel Comics known as the Marvel method, a method for creating comics that has heretofore been largely ignored by academia. In the Marvel method, instead ... -
After Strange Gods: Religion and Secularism in the Early Twentieth-Century Literary Imagination
(12.06.2017)In this study I investigate how English modernists wrote about religion and secularism at the beginning of the 1900s. While studies of the early century have emphasised Weberian, Freudian, and Nietzschean discourses of ... -
Agilitykilpailun keskeinen termistö : suomi-englanti
(Turun yliopisto, 26.09.2017)Tutkielmani on sanastotyö, jossa esitellään agilitykilpailun keskeinen termistö suomalaisen kilpailujärjestelmän mukaan klassisen systemaattisen sanastotyön menetelmin. Termistön pää- ja lähdekieli on suomi ja vastinekieli ... -
Aktiivinen vai alistettu agentti: ammatinharjoittaja-asiatekstinkääntäjän toimijuus tuotantoverkostossa ja kahdenvälisessä asiakassuhteessa
(01.06.2016)Tutkielman aiheena on ammatinharjoittaja-asiatekstinkääntäjän toimijuus kahdessa yhteistyömallissa: alihankkijana tuotantoverkostossa ja kahdenvälisessä asiakassuhteessa. Tarkoituksena on saada kuuluviin kääntäjien näkemyksiä ... -
Ammattimaisen kääntämisen ja fanikääntämisen rajamailla : tarkastelussa Dota 2:n joukkoistetut aseennimien käännökset englannista suomeen
(Turun yliopisto, 07.05.2018)Tutkielmassa käsitellään Dota 2 -videopelin käännöstä englannista suomeen. Pelin käännöksen ovat laatineet korvauksetta vapaaehtoiset fanit Steam Translation Server -joukkoistamisprojektissa ammattikääntäjien valvonnassa. ... -
An Amalgamation of Women’s Reality and Male Fantasy: Constructing Gender in Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane
(Turun yliopisto, 11.09.2017)This thesis discusses the construction of gender through the gaze of a male narrator in Neil Gaiman’s novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane. As the narrator, the nameless protagonist only sees partial views of the woman ... -
Assessing the Role of Vocabulary Breadth and Depth in Reading Comprehension: A Quantitative Study of Finnish EFL Learners
(30.05.2016)In this MA thesis, Finnish learners of English were studied in order to examine the relationship between second language vocabulary size, vocabulary depth, and reading comprehension. In addition, given the well-established ... -
”By my Lords comand, I am to acquainte you”: An Edition of the Seventeenth-Century Correspondence of the Wentworth Family in the Folger Shakespeare Library
(14.06.2016)This thesis is an edition of the correspondence of the Yorkshirean Wentworth family. The aim of the edition is to provide these handwritten manuscripts to a wider audience by transcribing them. The material has been acquired ... -
Challenging the Dream of One United Nation : Representations of Space in Australian Indigenous Literature
(Turun yliopisto, 06.06.2018)In this thesis I aim to show that literature can provide counter-representations to the settler-colonial representation of space in Australia. My primary sources are Tara June Winch’s Swallow the Air, Melissa Lucashenko’s ... -
Classroom situations as contributors to language anxiety and the relationship between anxiety and learners’ self-perceived English proficiency in Finnish EFL classroom contexts
(Turun yliopisto, 19.03.2018)The purpose of the present MA thesis was to examine language anxiety in the context of English instruction in Finnish schools. The study was focussed on the relationship between learners’ self-perceived English proficiency ... -
Colloquial Finnish in Subtitles – a Survey on the British Situation Comedy Peep Show
(15.06.2016)The use of dialects in audiovisual texts is increasing, but the use of standard language in Finnish subtitles is still the prevalent norm and seldom flouted. This may not be in the best interest of the audience as the way ... -
Comparison of Objectivity in US Alternative Media and Mainstream Media Websites' Hard News Articles Using the Appraisal Framework
(Turun yliopisto, 04.04.2018)The topic of this thesis is the comparison between the objectivity of alternative media and mainstream media websites’ hard news articles in the United States. It aims to discover the types of subjectivities occurring in ... -
Completely free, however : an Analysis of Free-to-Play Video Games and Their Attention and Impatience Economic Practices and Expressions of Freeness on Their Google Play sites
(Turun yliopisto, 12.12.2017)This MA thesis studies how freenessis expressed on the Google Play sites of ten free-to-play gamesandwhether the games are as free as advertised. The gameswere ten top grossing gameson the Google Play store on 10thof March ... -
Conflicting Claims behind a Consensus: A Critical Analysis of the Effect of Implicit Polyphony on the Argumentative Orientation in Science-Policy Discourse on Climate Change
(13.06.2017)This MA Thesis aims to critically investigate the role of discourse for the issue of climate change. It focuses on the discourse produced at science-policy interface by one of the most authoritative actors in the climate ... -
Correlations Between Willingness to Communicate Outside the Classroom, L2 Selves, and Learning Satisfaction : A Study of Finnish Advanced Learners of English
(Turun yliopisto, 11.06.2018)This study investigated advanced English learners’ willingness to communicate in their L2 outside the classroom and, further, how this willingness related to their views of themselves as L2 users, their L2 ideals, and L2 ... -
Creating a method for video game subtitle analysis and presenting a demonstrative case study on Trine 2’s Finnish subtitles
(Turun yliopisto, 25.06.2018)In this study, I set out to create a method for video game subtitle analysis that could benefit translation studies, especially the study of video game subtitling. I demonstrate the use of my method by conducting a case ... -
Engagement and dialogic space in motherhood and mental illness: a qualitative study on personal blog posts on postnatal depression
(Turun yliopisto, 04.12.2017)This thesis studies how women who have suffered or are currently suffering from postnatal depression discuss mental illnesses, motherhood, mothering and postnatal depression. The material in this study was collected from ... -
English L2 Learners’ Speech – And How the Spoken Language Course Affects Its Lexical Richness
(16.02.2016)Tässä sivuaineen tutkielmassa tarkasteltiin englannin kielen sanaston kehitystä lukion vieraan kielen syventävän suullisen kurssin aikana. Tutkimuksessa selvitettiin, miten oppilaiden sanastollinen rikkaus muuttuu puhutussa ...