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A Comparative Discursive Psychological Analysis of American Shareholder Letters During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(25.11.2022)This study set out to analyse corporate discourse from the standpoint of discursive psychology, which approaches discourse analysis from a psychological point of view. The objective of the analysis was to find how corporate ...avoin -
A comparative study on differences in Finnish university students’ motivation between three languages : English, Swedish and an optional language
(06.05.2021)Motivation and language learning has been widely studied before (for example, see Boo, Dörnyei and Ryan, 2015 for an overview of previous L2 motivation research), but comparing motivation between English, Swedish and third ...suljettu -
A Comparative Survey Based Study on Finnish Comprehensive School and Upper Secondary School Students’ Motivation and Self- Efficacy in English Classroom
(06.04.2020)Motivation and self-efficacy have been widely studied during the past decades. Dörnyei (2005) created a new motivational framework, the L2 motivational self-system. Bandura’s (1977) concept of self-efficacy as a part of ...avoin -
A comparison of ll. 247-342 of the editions of The Proverbs of Alfred : advice on choosing a wife and the medieval literary view of women
(29.01.2019)The Proverbs of Alfred is a twelfth century didactic poem that survives today in four different thirteenth century manuscripts. The poem is set in the time of King Alfred (ca. eighth century) and there is a frame story in ...avoin -
“A Cosy, loving pair”? – The Elusion of Definitions of Queequeg and Ishmael’s Relationship in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
(15.11.2018)In this thesis I investigate Herman Melville’s sea novel Moby-Dick (1851), its depiction of the first same-sex marriage in American literature, and the way scholars have been unable to define the relationship of Queequeg ...avoin -
A Decade of Sexist Entertainment: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Female Celebrities Encountering Sexism and Sexual Harassment in Interviews
(25.11.2022)This is a qualitative study focusing on the issue of sexism and how it is disseminated as entertainment in the media. The research utilizes Lazar’s feminist critical discourse analysis, an approach that combines aspects ...suljettu -
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 Functional and Singable Musical Translation : The Finnish Translation of the Movie Encanto
(03.06.2022)The topic of this study is musical translation and more specifically the achievement of a functional and singable translation. The aim is to discover the methods used for musical translation using Johan Franzon's (2021) ...suljettu -
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 ... -
A Mixed-methods approach to indirect translation : A case study of the Finnish translations of modern Greek prose 1952–2004
Turun yliopiston julkaisuja - Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser B: Humaniora : 524 (Turun yliopisto, 07.12.2020)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 ... -
A Not So Lonely Planet : Framing Sustainable Travel on Lonely Planet’s Website: A Comparative Study
(06.05.2021)This thesis examines how the world’s largest travel guide publisher Lonely Planet addresses and frames the subject of sustainable travel in the articles and news featured on its website. The study is comparative, and the ...avoin -
A Study of African American Vernacular English in Three Novels and Colloquial Finnish in their Translations – The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three, A Time to Kill and Push
(Turun yliopisto, 29.10.2013)Pro gradu -tutkielma käsittelee afroamerikkalaisen puhekielen (African American Vernacular English, AAVE) käyttöä kolmen englanninkielisen romaanin dialogissa ja suomen yleispuhekielen käyttöä romaanien käännöksissä. ...avoin -
A Thematic analysis on LGBT+ Themes in Master of None’s Thanksgiving and Bojack Horseman’s Hooray, Todd
(05.04.2023)Representation is important to how we view the world surrounding us. Different media platforms have made it easier for people all over the world to access popular culture, such as music, films and television shows. LGBT+ ...avoin -
Acquisition of Prepositions in View of Crosslinguistic Influence and Input in L2 English : An Analysis of Ukrainian Learners’ Written Language
(18.11.2020)Recently, the focus on learners’ errors has been among the most relevant issues in second language acquisition. The aim of this paper is to study the erroneous forms produced in writing the English prepositions along with ...avoin -
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 ... -
Adequacy in Finnish Translations of Anglo-American Literature
(Turun yliopisto, 22.11.2010)Tutkielma käsittelee nykypäivän angloamerikkalaisen kaunokirjallisuuden suomentamista. Tutkimuksessa pyritään vahvistamaan tai kumoamaan hypoteesi, jonka mukaan angloamerikkalaisen kirjallisuuden suomentamistapa on tällä ...avoin -
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 ... -
Alchemy in the vernacular: an edition and study of early English witnesses of The Mirror of Alchemy
Turun yliopiston julkaisuja - Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser B: Humaniora : 538 (Turun yliopisto, 27.05.2021)This study concerns an English-language alchemical work called <i>The Mirror of Alchemy (MoA).</i> I examine manuscript copies of <i>MoA</i> from the 15th to 17th centuries as well as a printed edition from 1597. The main ...