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Individual Variation in Pragmatic Comprehension of Finnish Learners of English: A Three-Week Language Course Abroad as a Learning Context
(2017-05-17)
This MA thesis studied seven Finnish learners of English participating in a three-week language course abroad. The purpose of the study was to examine how a three-week language course abroad affected the Finnish learners’ ...
Translating humor in animated short films: Humorous verbal elements in English and Finnish versions of five Bugs Bunny cartoons
(2017-06-13)
This thesis covers the translation of verbal humorous elements in five animated short films from English into Finnish. The analyzed films were originally released theatrically in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. ...
“I rest. your pore troublesome sister”: An Edition of the Letters of Lettice Kinnersley, and an Examination of Syntactic Sensitivity in the Application of Punctuation
(2017-05-17)
This thesis has two objectives. The first is to create an edition of the letters of Lettice Kinnersley, written circa 1595-1622. The letters belong to the Folger Shakespeare Library. The edition provides original transcriptions ...
The Cat Who Walks Through Years: Chris Claremont's X-Men as Kitty Pryde's bildungsroman
(2016-08-25)
This dissertation examines the fictional character Kitty Pryde from the X-Men comic book series during the tenure of writer Chris Claremont. Claremont's work on the character primarily involves the years 1980-1990, though ...
Growing into an unworldly gentleman: education, learning, isolation, and society in Maria Edgeworth’s Ormond
(2016-10-06)
This thesis studies the phenomena of education, learning, and societal constraint in Maria Edgeworth’s Ormond (1817). The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the emergence of the educational theories of Rousseau, Locke, ...
"If God hadn't invented woman men would have had to do so" - construction of female identities in Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
(2016-08-25)
The subject of the thesis is Parade's End (1924–1928) by Ford Madox Ford. The thesis focuses on the portrayal of female identities and femininity in the context of societal changes in the beginning of 1900s and also uses ...
Learning English is Fun! Incidental vocabulary acquisition of music and traditional class ninth graders via listening to pop songs
(2016-08-25)
Finnish youth are constantly exposed to music and lyrics in English in their free time. It is likely that this has a positive effect on vocabulary learning. Learning vocabulary while simultaneously accompanied with melodies ...
“Onko tämä sitä creativitya”: A Case Study of the Functions of Code Switching by IB students in a WhatsApp Conversation
(2016-10-06)
This thesis is a case study which sets out to identify the main functions of code switching in a group of eleven International Baccalaureate students’ computer mediated communication through an application called WhatsApp. ...
Mobile technology term project - a practical application of the theory of terminology
(2016-10-06)
This Design and Demonstration type of Master’s Thesis consists of two parts: it describes the practical terminology project in which I participated in my previous place of employment and it outlines the basic principles ...
Kioskikirjallisuuden suomentamisen historiaa. Esimerkkitapauksena Ed McBainin The Pusher ja sen suomennokset
(2016-08-25)
Tutkielmani käsittelee kioskikirjallisuuden suomennosten historiaa ja sitä, miten kioskikirjasarjoissa julkaistuja teoksia on suomennosvaiheessa lyhennetty. Suomessa on tehty vain vähän akateemista tutkimusta kioskikirja ...