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Grace under pressure: Norms in news transediting
(2016-11-06)
This thesis deals with the norms of news transediting, a combination of translating and editing news source material according to journalistic practices for the consumption of the target audience. The aims of the study are ...
Laulukäännökset ensimmäisessä suomenkielisessä koululaulukirjassa: Heinrich Wächterin 50 Koulu-Laulua
(2016-10-06)
Tämän pro gradu -tutkielman aineistona on viipurilaisen urkuri-pedagogi Heinrich Wächterin (1818−1881) omakustantama ja Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran kirjapainossa vuonna 1864 painettu laulukirja 50 Koulu-Laulua, Sanat ...
“I haven’t had that much fun since labour.” Subtitling sarco-ironic remarks in Gilmore Girls
(2016-08-25)
The purpose of this study is to explore how the potential cues of spoken sarcasm and irony are transferred into written Finnish subtitles in the American television series Gilmore Girls. The aim is to discover how the use ...
Translation – The fifth language skill? A comparison of the role of translation in Finnish lukio and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
(2016-08-15)
This study attempts to answer the question “Should translation be considered a fifth language skill?” by examining and comparing the use of translation as a language learning and assessment method in the national Finnish ...
The flow of reality’s development: from postmodernism to post-postmodernism in John Irving’s The World According to Garp and Last Night in Twisted River
(2016-06-14)
In this master’s thesis, I examine the development of writer-characters and metafiction from John Irving’s The World According to Garp to Last Night in Twisted River and how this development relates to the development of ...
Translating Wordplay: A case study on the translation of wordplay in Terry Pratchett’s Soul Music
(2016-06-14)
Wordplay and the translation of wordplay is a complex subject that has been addressed by various studies. The combination of a single form and multiple meanings created by wordplay makes it challenging to translate. ...
This Is a Gorgeous-looking Movie”: Multimodal Interplay between Commentary and Subject Materials in Movie Review Entertainment
(2016-08-02)
The present thesis is a study of movie review entertainment (MRE) which is a contemporary Internet-based genre of texts. MRE are movie reviews in video form which are published online, usually as episodes of an MRE web ...
”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
(2016-06-14)
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 ...
To Succeed Is to Believe: Comparison of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Language Learning between Learner Groups of English and Swedish in Finland
(2016-06-14)
In this thesis, I studied self-efficacy in the learning of English and Swedish in Finland. The theory of self-efficacy, which was created by Albert Bandura, suggests that the beliefs a person has of his or her capabilities ...
Test Anxiety, Coping, Gender and Academic Performance in English Exams: A Study of Finnish Upper Secondary School Students
(2016-08-15)
In this MA thesis, test anxiety related to English exams among Finnish upper secondary school students was studied. In addition, the ways students try to cope with test anxiety were investigated. The purpose of the study ...