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Diagnosing Gender: Transitivity Analysis on the Diagnostic Category of Gender Dysphoria in DSM-5
(Turun yliopisto, 2014-09-26)
Tässä tutkielmassa analysoidaan teoksessa ’Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Men-tal Disorders, Fifth Edition’ (DSM-5) ja tarkemmin sen kappaleessa ’Gender Dysphoria’ käytettyä kieltä. DSM-5 on mielenterveydenalan ...
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 ...
Manifesting Personal Brands in Politics: Strategic Manoeuvring by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the Third US Presidential Debate of 2016
(2020-04-21)
In this thesis I investigate how the political brands of the two presidential candidates of the 2016 US presidential election, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, were manifested in their argumentation during the third and ...
“It was super easy and quick to do”: Comparing the Use of Evaluative Language in Life-Style and Fashion Influencers’ Sponsored and Non-Sponsored Instagram Content
(2020-04-02)
Social media platforms have created a new profession, a social media influencer. Influencers earn their income by working together with brands or companies and advertising products to their followers. It is argued that ...
Repairing the Company’s Image: Image Repair Strategies and Theme Structure in Boeing’s Press Releases Published after the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines Plane Accidents
(2020-05-08)
In 2019, aerospace giant Boeing faced a public image crisis when two of their planes crashed fatally only five months apart. In this comparative study, I examine Boeing’s image repair efforts in their press releases issued ...
The Hanoi Summit and Politically Biased Language : A Critical Discourse Study on Political Bias in the Language of Two South Korean newspapers
(2020-04-17)
On 27– 28 February 2019 the United States President Donald Trump met with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi for a second US-North Korea summit. This study focuses on possible politically biased stances in several ...
Individual and interactional speech fluency in L2 English from a problem-solving perspective : A mixed-methods approach
(Turun yliopisto, 2020-09-11)
This study examines second language (L2) speech fluency and resources for maintaining it based on monologue and dialogue data. The study extends previous L2 speech fluency research by making three theoretical–methodological ...
The Road to Success or Failure: Attributions among Finnish 8th Graders and Upper Secondary School Students Learning English as a Foreign Language
(2020-04-15)
Attribution is originally a concept from psychology, but the interest in it has expanded the research field. Attributions in SLA context have been studied since 1990s, but the research has mainly focused on gender differences ...
Foreigners as Narrators of National History : The Role of Translation in Finnish Historiography of the Continuation War
(Turun yliopisto, 2018-05)
The subject of this thesis is the role of translation in Finnish historiography of the Continuation War. The important early role of three Anglo-American historians, C. L. Lundin, A. F. Upton, and H. P. Krosby, in the study ...
Definitions and subjective experience of bilingualism of Finnish University students of English
(2019-03-26)
This thesis examines the subjective definitions and experience of bilingualism of Finnish University students of English. Due to the participants’ exposure to English language and presumable high competence in the language, ...