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A Comparative Survey Based Study on Finnish Comprehensive School and Upper Secondary School Students’ Motivation and Self- Efficacy in English Classroom
(2020-04-06)
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 ...
Tyylikäs käännös: : Jane Austenin romaanin Pride and Prejudice [1813] neljän erilaisen suomennoksen kerrontatyylin vertailu
(2020-03-17)
Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on selvittää, kuinka läheisesti Jane Austenin romaanin Pride and Prejudice [1813] neljän erilaisen suomennoksen kerrontatyylit vastaavat alkuteoksen kerrontatyyliä ja millaisia tyylieroja eri ...
Working on it : PhD Research at the Department of English, University of Turku
(Turun yliopisto, 2019-07-12)
What we mean when we talk about bisexuality : a critical discourse analysis of self-definitions by bi-identified people online
(2020-04-20)
A Critical Discourse Analysis on the language used by bisexual people when defining bisexuality. The aim of the thesis is to define current discourses about bisexuality within the modern frameworks of sexuality and gender ...
'Thou open arse bitch': Dysphemisms in Early Modern English Witness Depositions on Defamation Cases
(2020-04-16)
The Early Modern English period (roughly 1500-1800) was a time in which a great number of defamation suits were fought in ecclesiastical courts. Most often, the litigants were female, and sexual slander was the most common ...
Interrupting and overlapping in the US presidential debates - a comparative study
(2019-04-14)
This thesis studied the occurrence of overlapping and power-oriented interruptions
in the presidential debates of USA. The study was conducted by comparing the
debates of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections and its ...
“I pity her that she is born to be a queen”: Evaluation of Caroline of Brunswick in Lady Charlotte Bury’s 1838 Diary
(2020-04-22)
Diaries serve as a means to record and process the writers’ daily lives and mindsets, and hence preserve them as memories of the past. For researchers, however, historical diaries provide unique insight on the contemporary ...
Translating Wordplay : A case study on the translation of wordplay in Terry Pratchett’s Soul Music
(Turun yliopisto, 2018-10-25)
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. ...
“my wife says that you can be hooked on face powder or whatever you call it” A Corpus Based Study on Extender Tags from a Learner Language Perspective
(2020-10-12)
This thesis studies how native speakers of Finnish use extender tags in spoken English. This linguistic phenomenon in English has been examined since the 1970’s. The learner corpus perspective, however, is a newly developing ...
Ethos, Pathos and Logos : a Comparative Study of the Rhetorical Strategies Found in CEO Letters in English Annual Reports of Finnish Companies after Desirable and Undesirable Financial Years
(2019-05-16)
The corporate annual report is a tool of corporate communication by which corporate image, brand, reputation and social responsibility are maintained and improved. Rhetoric, more specifically organizational rhetoric, is ...