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Aktiivinen vai alistettu agentti: ammatinharjoittaja-asiatekstinkääntäjän toimijuus tuotantoverkostossa ja kahdenvälisessä asiakassuhteessa
(2016-06-01)
Tutkielman aiheena on ammatinharjoittaja-asiatekstinkääntäjän toimijuus kahdessa yhteistyömallissa: alihankkijana tuotantoverkostossa ja kahdenvälisessä asiakassuhteessa. Tarkoituksena on saada kuuluviin kääntäjien näkemyksiä ...
I Want Two-Level with You – On the Concept of Verbal Irony
(2017-03-14)
This thesis is a review of the current views on the concept of verbal irony within the scope of linguistics, with focus on the conceptual necessity of distinguishing between two layers of meaning or “universes of discourse”. ...
“Warnings are to be given if feasible” : Graduating power in the US state laws on the use of force by law enforcement
(Turun yliopisto, 2017-12-12)
Cases of young unarmed black American men being fatally shot by police officers and their subsequent acquittals are increasingly raising questions about the ethos of the current US state statutes that govern the use of ...
Investigating the accuracy, syntactic complexity and lexical complexity in learner English in reference to school level and topic : comparing the written production of secondary school students and upper secondary school students
(2017-04-27)
The purpose of this study was to examine the accuracy, syntactic complexity and
lexical complexity in reference to the school level and the topic in a sample of texts
written by intermediate Finnish learners of English. ...
Completely free, however : an Analysis of Free-to-Play Video Games and Their Attention and Impatience Economic Practices and Expressions of Freeness on Their Google Play sites
(Turun yliopisto, 2017-12-12)
This MA thesis studies how freenessis expressed on the Google Play sites of ten free-to-play gamesandwhether the games are as free as advertised. The gameswere ten top grossing gameson the Google Play store on 10thof March ...
The Relationship between Receptive and Productive Knowledge: A Comparative Case Study of Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition between Four Children of Different Ages
(2017-08-08)
In the present longitudinal case study, the early second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition of young Finnish learners of English was studied in order to examine the relationship between their receptive and productive ...
Multilingualism as a Resource in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Study on Utilizing the Language Backgrounds of Multilingual Children in Finnish Comprehensive School
(2017-05-16)
In this MA thesis, multilingual children of immigrant background as well as English teachers were studied. The purpose of the study was to examine how much and in what ways children of immigrant background take advantage ...
Translating Womanism: A feminist translation analysis of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and its Finnish translation Häivähdys purppuraa
(2017-05-17)
The aim of this thesis is to incorporate the third-wave feminist perspective into a translation analysis of a literary feminist text and its translation from English into Finnish and to examine how the feminist features ...
After Strange Gods: Religion and Secularism in the Early Twentieth-Century Literary Imagination
(2017-06-12)
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 ...
Conflicting Claims behind a Consensus: A Critical Analysis of the Effect of Implicit Polyphony on the Argumentative Orientation in Science-Policy Discourse on Climate Change
(2017-06-13)
This MA Thesis aims to critically investigate the role of discourse for the issue of climate change. It focuses on the discourse produced at science-policy interface by one of the most authoritative actors in the climate ...