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“There Was Not One Story of ISIS Women, But Many Separate Stories”: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of the Representations of the “ISIS Women” in British Broadsheet Media
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Tämän pro gradu -tutkielman tarkoitus on tutkia brittimediassa esiintyviä representaatioita ”ISIS-naisista”, eli Islamilaiseen valtioon (ISIS) liitetyistä naisista, jotka tällä hetkellä oleskelevat Syyrian pakolaisleireillä. ...
Towards Positive Places of Death: Fantastic Landscapes of Death in Reaper Man, Mort and The Graveyard Book
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
This thesis discusses landscapes of death in Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book and Terry Pratchett’s Mort and Reaper Man focusing on the construction of places of death and the purpose of using imagery related to death and ...
References to Women in R&B and Hip Hop: Case Studies of Girl, Baby, Bitch and Shorty
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
In this Master’s Thesis I will examine the use of the words girl, baby, bitch and shorty in reference to women in the context of R&B and hip hop within the timespan of 15 years (2000-2015, excluding the year 2006). The ...
Nonhumanity, Naturecultureness and Agency in Popular Culture: (Re)Contextualizing the Orc with the Case Study of Bright
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
This thesis displays the present account and use of fantastical creatures, namely orcs, as problematic because of the human-centric approaches in critical analysis concerning them. In the absence of more holistic research ...
Consumed Lives: The Relationship Between Consumerism and Violence in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
In this thesis, I examine the relationship between consumerism and violence in Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho. When American Psycho was first released, it was widely criticised for both the vacuousness of its ...
Body Language in David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
In my Master’s Thesis, I am exploring the role of body language and nonverbal communication in David Foster Wallace’s short story collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999). The collection has been seen as a very ...
English literature as a resource for teaching English as a foreign language: The reflections of English language teachers working with sixth graders
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
The purpose of the present research was to examine English teachers’ experiences of selecting English literature for their English as a foreign language classes for the sixth-grade pupils in Finland. Moreover, the purpose ...
Building Paris : A Geocritical Approach to Ernest Hemingway’s A Movable Feast and George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London
(2021)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
In this thesis, I will examine how Paris is represented in Ernest Hemingway’s A Movable Feast (1964) and George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). Both of the books are autobiographical accounts of the ...
Converting Technical Documentation into DITA: An Ethnographic Study of a Conversion Process
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Digital content management and structured documentation systems have become increasingly popular within companies that deal with considerable amounts of technical documentation. Implementing a structured documentation ...
Memory and Exile : Spatiotemporal Narrations of Displacement in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and And the Mountains Echoed
(2020)
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Pro gradu -tutkielma
Tutkielma käsittelee muistin merkitystä maanpaossa menneisyyden narratiivisen (re)konstruoinnin kannalta Khaled Hosseinin romaaneissa Leijapoika ja Ja vuoret kaikuivat. Hosseinin teoksia on tutkittu suhteellisen vähän, ...