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The Immortal Victims: Representations of Women in Vampire Fiction
(Turun yliopisto, 2017-09-12)
This thesis examines the representations of women and the evolution of female characters in vampire fiction. My primary sources are Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, ...
Utopian Reconfiguration of the Nature/Culture Dualism in Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home
(2020-02-12)
This thesis examines the intersection of utopia and ecology in Ursula Le Guin’s science fiction novel Always Coming Home (1985). As such, the thesis approaches the text from the theoretical frameworks of ecocriticism and ...
English Music in Spare Time and English Pronunciation – A Quantitative Study on 9th Graders in Finland
(2019-09-27)
Today, music is a familiar component of people’s daily sound environment, and a significant amount of popular music contains English vocals. It has been established by various studies that music can aid language learning, ...
An admirable water for diseases of the luer, spleene, kidneis & all obstructions : Evaluation in the Titles of an Early Modern English Manuscript Recipe Book
(2018-10-24)
This study focuses on the evaluative function of recipe titles as evidenced in the early modern English manuscript recipe book MS V.a.619 (Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.619). The study comprises of a structural analysis ...
Place in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and The Red Pony
(2020-03-03)
This thesis examines the literary places in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and The
Red Pony (1933). In the thesis I analyze how literary places, such as the ones in these two
aforementioned novels, are ...
Ammattimaisen kääntämisen ja fanikääntämisen rajamailla : tarkastelussa Dota 2:n joukkoistetut aseennimien käännökset englannista suomeen
(Turun yliopisto, 2018-05-07)
Tutkielmassa käsitellään Dota 2 -videopelin käännöstä englannista suomeen. Pelin käännöksen ovat laatineet korvauksetta vapaaehtoiset fanit Steam Translation Server -joukkoistamisprojektissa ammattikääntäjien valvonnassa. ...
Our Black Skin is the Problem. Our Skin is the Target. We could be doing nothing, yet They will say We do Everything: Distancing and Solidarity via Metaphors and Metonymy in a Critical Discourse Analysis of #blacklivesmatter Twitter Discourse
(2016-11-23)
This MA thesis investigates the way metaphors and metonymy were used to create distancing and solidarity in Twitter discourse of the hashtag #blacklivesmatter. The hashtag was born as a response to on-going police brutality ...
Rooibosteetä ja biltongia – botswanalaiset elementit Alexander McCall Smithin teoksen The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency suomennoksessa
(2015-11-24)
Tutkimuksessa käsitellään kulttuurisidonnaisten elementtien eli reaalioiden kääntämistä Alexander McCall Smithin teoksen The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency suomennoksessa. Keskeisenä tavoitteena oli selvittää reaalioiden ...
Man and the Milieu: Ecocritical analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” and “Indian Camp
(2016-01-15)
Pro Gradu -tutkielmassani tarkastelen Ernest Hemingwayn alun perin vuonna 1925 julkaistuja kahta novellia ”Big Two-Hearted River” ja ”Indian Camp”. Molemmat teokset kuuluvat Nick Adams -tarinoihin, jotka ovat kokoelma ...
Metaphors in healthcare : A qualitative analysis of conceptual metaphors in liberal and conservative discourse
(Turun yliopisto, 2018-05-23)
The objective of this thesis is to analyse how conceptual metaphors are used in the political platforms’ healthcare sections of the Republican party and the Democratic party in the United States of America. The aims are ...