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| DOCTORAL THESES (complete list) | |||
| Maria
Lassén-Seger |
2006 |
Adventures Into Otherness |
See article |
| Charlotta
Häggblom |
2006 |
Young EFL-Pupils - Reading
Multicultural Childrens Fiction |
See
article |
| Katja Brandt |
2006 |
Christina Rosettis' "Goblin Market" - Milton Revised or
Revived? |
See
article |
| Ann-Charlotte Lindberg | 2004 | Promotion and Politeness: Conflicting Scholarly Rhetoric in Three Disciplines. | See article |
| Iris Lindahl-Raittila | 2002 | From Victim of the 'Feminine Mystique' to Heroine of Feminist Deconstruction: Auto/Biographical Images of Sylvia Plath 1963-2001. | See article |
| Pia Sillanpää | 2002 | The Scandinavian Sporting Tour: A Case Study in Geographical Imagology. | See article |
| Pia Maria Ahlbäck | 2002. | Energy Heterotopia, Dystopia: George Orwell, Michel Foucault and the Twentieth Century Enviromental Imagination. | See article |
| Maria Isaksson-Wikberg | 2000 | Negotiated and Committed Argumentation: a Cross-Cultural Study of American and Finland-Swedish Student Writing. | See article |
| Lydia Williams | 1998 | Young EFL Readers and Their Books: Learning to Read in English Immersion Programmes. | See article |
| Maria Olaussen | 1997 | Forceful Creation in Harsh Terrain: Place and Identity in Three Novels by Bessie Head. | |
| John Smeds | 1997 | Statement and Story. Robert Grave's Myth-Making. | See article |
| Kaj Sjöholm | 1995 | The Influence of Crosslinguistic, Semantic, and Input Factors on the Acquisition of English Phrasal Verbs. A Comparison Between Finnish and Swedish Learners at an Intermediate and Advanced level. | |
| Bo Pettersson | 1995 | The World According to Kurt Vonnegut: Determinism and Its Narrative Realization in the Novels. | |
| Bo Gunnarsson | 1995 | The Novels of William Gerhardie. | |
| Ilkka Joki | 1994 | Mamet, Bakhtin, and the Dramatic: The Demotic as a Variable of Addressivity. | |
| Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm | 1993 | Discourse Functions of Adverbial Placement in English: Clause-Initial Adverbials of Time and Place in Narratives and Procedural Place Descriptions. | |
| Torsten Pettersson | 1982 | Consciousness and Time: A Study in the Philosophy and Narrative Technique of Joseph Conrad. | |
| Kay Wikberg | 1975 | Yes-No Questions and Answers in Shakespeare’s Plays, A Study in Text Linguistics. | |
| Roger D. Sell | 1974 | The Shorter Poems of Sir John Beaumont. | |
| Torbjörn Söderholm | 1971 | The End-Rhymes of Marvell, Cowley, Crashaw, Lovelace and Vaughan. A Study of their Reflection of the Pronunciation of Stressed Vowels and Diphthongs in the Mid-Seventeenth Century. | |
| Håkan Ringbom | 1968 | Studies in the Narrative Technique of Beowulf and Lawman’s Brut. | |
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| LICENCIATE THESES | |||
| Jing Zhu | 2003 | Single and Multiple Srategies in Pragraphing and the Use of Topic Sentences: A Contrastive Study of English Essays Written by American and Chinese EFL University Students | |
| Lilian Rönnqvist | 2002 | Young Adult Fiction in the EFL-Classroom: Enhancing Cultural Awareness Through Literature | |
| Kaija Kähönen & Ritva Laurial |
2001 | Iconospheres: an Imagogical Analysis of British Films on General Release in Finland in 1996. | |
| Sarah Bannock | 1999 | The 'Discipline of the Audience' and the Dialogue between Writer and Reader in Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshops and Nights at the Circus: Theatricality, Femininity, Theory. | |
| Katja Brandt | 1999 | The Apple Motif in Christina Rossetti: Tradition Transformed. | |
| Lena Koski | 1999 | Dickinson and Dissent: "I am standing alone in rebellion". | |
| Iris Lindahl-Raittila | 1999 | Biography, Autobiography or Fiction? The Life Stories of Sylvia Plath. | |
| Pia Maria Ahlbäck | 1998 | Energy and the Metaphoric: Ecocritical Readings in Two Orwellian Works: The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) and Coming Up for Air (1939). | |
| Anne Andersson | 1997 | "The more you write the nicer you become": Virginia Woolf's Literary Criticism. | |
| Pia Sillanpää | 1997 | Victorian and Edwardian Travellers and the Mid-Nordic Region: A Study in Geographical Imagology and Tourism. | |
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| PRO GRADU THESES | |
| 2007 | |
| Bettina
Berglund |
The importance of
cross-linguistic similarities: Mastering prepositions in
Finland-Swedish English learners' free production at upper secondary
school |
| Kaj
Nyman |
The Phonological Significance of
Aspiration for the Perception of Standard English Plosives on the Word
Level |
| Charlotta
Pettersson |
Yeats and the Role of Art in
Ireland |
| Catharina
Sparf |
A comparative analysis of
narrative structure: cross-cultural differences in narrative structure
written be American and Swedish speaking Finnish narratives |
| 2006 | |
| Linda
Gustafsson |
The Importance of the
benefactor: a study of two benefactor-protégé
relationships in Great Expectations |
| Emma
Haga |
Language through Poetry -
Introducing Poetry into Foreign Language Education |
| Jennica
Haga |
Naebodie speaks Scots anymair -
or dae theay? |
| Kristin
Frilund |
C.3.3'S Equivocations; De Profundis and the Ballad of Reading Gaol |
| Peter
Lostedt |
Aspects of Politeness Phenomena
in Internet Relay Chat |
| Hannele
Lyts |
The Elements of the Gothic in
the Castle of Oiranto and the Italian |
| Malin
Stenbäck |
All Word and No Play - How
Non-Native Speakers of English Deal With Puns |
| Maria
Westerback |
Promoting Consumerism: On the
Symbiotic Relationship Between Advertising and Editorial Material in Cosmopolitan |
| Yvonne
Westergård |
Britain in the European Monetary
Union - An Impossible Combination: An analysis of British attitudes to
membership of the single currency |
| Johanna Österåker | 'I hope Saddam can come to his
senses'; A study of the FAIRY TALE metaphor in three speeches by PM
Tony Blair, concerning the justification of the war in Iraq 2003 |
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| 2005 | |
| Ralf
Andtbacka |
Multiple Encoding in the Poetry
of Peter Didsbury |
| Heidi
Blomqvist |
ELF Learners' Written Production
of Collocations |
| Hanna
Hakkarainen |
Translation as a Marketing Tool |
| Mirva
Lehtonen |
Towards a Global Lingua Franca:
International English in E-mail Communication |
| Jenny
Lindberg |
The Ideal or the Next Best
Thing: The Choice Between Native and Non-Native Proficiency |
| Sarah
Mattila |
A Study of Students and Teacher
Trainees' Metaphorical Conceptualisations of Language, Learning and
Teaching. |
| Jan
Anders Ray |
Perceptions of Magic in Fantasy
Litterature of the 1980s and the Middle Ages |
| Bea
Tapanila |
A Study of English Language
attitudes in the nordic Investment Bank |
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| 2004 | |
| Kenneth Gustafsson | The Spun Lure of Puns Rule - Wordplay in English Print Advertisements |
| Måns Huldén | Linguistic Complexity in Two Major American Newspapers and the associated Press Newswire 1900-2000 |
| Margareta
Järviaho |
Transfer in the Lexis of Third
Language Learners |
| Theresia
Kevin |
"Gods Own Country": Literary and
Societal Development in Kerala |
| Rasmus
Lindqvist |
"...if we do not speak Cherokee,
what proof is there that we are Cherokee?" - Attitudes to Language and
Identity among the Cherokees |
| Vilhelm
Lindholm |
Comics Incorporated: A Study
of Comic Crossovers in the Sandman |
| Linda-Sofie
Lundgren |
The Development of a Commercial
Society in Seventeenth Century London |
| Jenny
Lönnblad |
Oscar Wilde and the Picture of
Dorian Gray |
| Ann-Helen Peltonen | English Word-Formation Teaching in Secondary Schools |
| Anna-Karin Rainio | Knowledge of English Vocabulary among Finland-Swedish Farmers: A Study Conducted in Pargas and Åbo. |
| Jeanette
Selin |
The Moor's Last Sigh - As a
Postcolonial Novel |
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| 2003 | |
| Malin Backman | Profit and Loss Account Terminology in National and International Contexts. |
| Heidi Granqvist | Scattered Identity: Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle. |
| Johanna Korhonen | On the Linguistic Profile of Old Order Amish: Mir Bleiwe Deitsch. |
| Johanna Nordström | Snow, Sun and Surf: Images of Finland and Australia. |
| Loukia Prasinou | Boy That Makes Me Mad: A Multi-modal Analysis of Anger in Peanuts. |
| Ann Rintala | Closed in the red, biggest gainer, squeezed up, nursing a loss ... On Metaphor and Lexis in English and Swedist Market Reports. |
| Annika Snellman | Overlaps and Back-channels. |
| Marika Snellman | Implicitness in Cover Letters: A Contrastive and Interlanguage Study of Finnish and American Writing. |
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| 2002 | |
| Camilla Adolfsson | Witchcraft and Literature in Jacobean England. |
| Maria Bertula | Easing Skills Shortages by Increasing Work-Related Immigration: the case of Ireland. |
| Peter Björkfors | "Be British!" The Titanic Disaster and Projections of British Nationalism, 1912: a Study in National Imagoolgy. |
| Benny Eklöv | Cut-ups vs. Control: William S. Burroughs' The Ticket that Exploded. |
| Elin Fellman | The Metamorphoses of Pooh: Winnie-the-Pooh as a Cultural Icon. |
| Oana Girjan | Women World Wide. A Social and Linguistic Journey of Initiation. |
| Lena Helenius | Melting Surfaces: The Development of the Idea of Contraries in William Blake's Early Illuminated Books. |
| Johan Hellberg | English-Language Biographies of Anna of Denmark - a Comparative Study. |
| Heidi Hjerpe | River of Now and Then: The Presentation of Place in Margaret Laurence's Manwaka Novels. |
| Karin Kallström | Attempting to Raise Bilingual Children: An Overview of the Problems Faced by Elitist Bilinguals Using the One Parent One Language Method. |
| Maria Lundgren | A Cityscape of Images: Murals in Belfast. |
| Åsa Westlin | Action speaks louder than words: a study of gender differences in the use of gestures in EFL teaching situations in Swedish-speaking Finland. |
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| 2001 | |
| Camilla Backman | Error Analysis: an Investigation of Preposition and Article Errors Produced by Finnish Learners of English. |
| Hanna-Lena Dahlin | On the Role of Lexical Transfer in Third Language Acquisition and Production. |
| Terecia Fritzén | Fiction and Faction: Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Myth of Sabrina and the Construction of National Identity in the History of the Kings of Britain. |
| Steven Hall | Aspects of Manhood in Four Nineteenth-Century Novels: Great Expectations, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jane Eyre and The Scarlet Letter. |
| Maria Hellander | Language Learning Strategies: a Comparison of Language Learning Strategy Use by Students from Språktjänst at Åbo Akademi University and Helsingfors Svenska Arbetarinstitut. |
| Anna Janson | The Function of Needs Analysis in ESP: a Study of Viking Line Employees' Needs and Knowledge of Languages. |
| Pia Kulla | Translation of Occupational Titles from Finnish to English in the Provincial State Office of Western Finland. |
| Tom Lehmus | Mitigation and Hedging in Intercultural Customer Satisfaction Interviews. |
| Kristiina Lindström | Attitudes and Motivation towards Foreign Language Learning in School: a Study at a College in the USA. |
| Annika Stendahl | Consumer Behaviour: the Purchase of a Doormat, with Special Reference to Royal Floor Mats - A Fiskars Company. |
| Marlene Sundström | Cultural Conflict in Amy Tan's Novel The Joy Luck Club. |
| Tiina Tavast | Pragmatic Article Like in the Bergen Corpus of London Teenager English (COLT). |
| Tove Österlund | Britain and the EU and EMU: British Reactions and Attitudes to European Integration. |
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| 2000 | |
| Camilla Fagerman | Identity and the Poetry of Ian Crichton Smith. |
| Monica Hill | Culture through Newspapers. |
| Ilona Niemi | The Flesh and the Sign: the Construction of Gender in Gender in Carter and Kahlo. |
| Joakim Nybäck | The Instrumental Role in English, French and Swedish: a Contrastive Functional Analysis. |
| Maria Nygrén | The Double in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. |
| Lena Nykänen | Selfhood and the Epistolary Tradition in Alice Walker's The Color Purple. |
| Petra Nylund | "After all that, I became English": Identity in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. |
| Isa Skog | Machine Translation: a Case Study of Two Machine Translation Systems Available Free-of-Charge on the Internet. |
| Ulrika Söderlund | Understanding Culture through Five Teenage Novels. |
| Marina Wenelius | A Model for Developing Cultural Awareness within Foreign Language Education using Literature as a Medium. |
| Jennie Öhman | Reader/writer interaction in text. On the use of personal pronouns and questions in editorial writing. |
| Anna Österberg | Attitudes to the English Language, People and Culture: a Comparison between a Finland Swedish Högstadium and Gymnasium. |
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| 1999 | |
| Maria Bagarnäs | Politeness Strategies: A Study of German and Native-Speaker Fax Messages in English. |
| Nina Ekholm | Interruptions in Mixed-Sex Telephone Conversations between Educated British Speakers in the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English. |
| Maria Enberg | The Anglo-American Special Relationship under the Leaderships of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. |
| Camilla Fant | Communicative Activities in the Classroom. |
| Hillevi Lasén | Acting to Bust Free: Separation and Connection in Carson McCuller's The Member of the Wedding. |
| Nina Lehtinen | Translation Equivalence with Reference to English Translation of Swedish Annual Reports. |
| Anna Levander | The British Attempt at Assimilation of French Canada between 1763 and 1885: a Story of North American Struggle, Imperial Failure, and Cultural Survival? |
| Johanna Lindholm | A Qualitative Analysis of the Promotional Function on Corporate Internet Sites. |
| Heidi Lupala | Highland Symbols of Scotland and their Historical Background. |
| Joachim Mattsson | Computers in Language Education: a Survey of Computer Use among English Teachers in Lower Secondary Schools. |
| Karin Nurmi | Blood and Voice: Mediating Nature and Culture through Women's Experience in Jackie Kay's The Adoption Papers. |
| Tove Nyberg | ISO 14000: the Environmental Managements Standard. What is it and What is Driving it? |
| Catharina Tallskog | A Comparison of the Isle of Man and the Åland Islands as Autonomous Regions withing the European Union. |
| Brita Tujulin- Lindblad |
The New Listening Comprehension and Reading Comprehension Tests in English in the Matriculation Exam: an Analysis. |
| Catharina Vestersund- Räikkönen |
Portfolio Assessment as a Method of Teaching and Assessing Cultural Awareness within Foreign Language Education. |
| Lena Weijola | Knowledge of English Vocabulary: a Study of Different Learner Groups in a Swedish Comprehensive School in Finland. |
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| 1998 | |
| Katarina Antman | Ethnicity of European Americans: a Case Study of Finnish Americans. |
| Tiina Antti | The Reception of English Elements in Three Finnish Print Advertisements. |
| Ulrika Back | Time and Deceptive Memory in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye. |
| Peter Björkroth | Language Difficulties at Sea: the STCU-95 and the Consequences for Teaching English. |
| Annika Johansson | Language Learning Strategies in English: a Comparative Study of the Influence of Gender and Social Environment on Self-Reported Strategy Use by Students from the Scandinavian School of Brussels adn Pargas Svenska Gymnasium. |
| Anne Klockars | The Lion, the Danger and the Solution: Security in the Narnia Chronicles. |
| Maria Lindholm | Some Factors Affecting the Employment of Finnish Female Graduates in Britain. |
| Annika Lund | "Recycling the Fairy Lover": Folklore and Fairy Tale in Neil M. Gunn's Short Story The Moor. |
| Maria Luoma | Typographical Devices as Markers of Involvement in Computer-Mediated Communication. |
| Annica Mård | Literature in Foreign Language Education: in Theory and in Practice. |
| Ari Parikka | Expressing Static Locality: Similarities in the Use of Static Locatives by Monolingual British English- and Finnish-Speaking Children Aged 1-3 Years. |
| Monica Sandbacka | London Docklands as a Location for Business. |
| Nora Weckström | The Waiting Woman: Patriarchal Structures in A.L. Kelly's Original Bliss. |
| Harriet Ölander | The Adolescent Imagination: An Argument for Literature in Education. |
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| 1997 | |
| Lena Grahn | Historical Recovery in Toni Morrison's Beloved. |
| Maria Grans | The Role of Intercultural Communication in the Image of Finland in Great Britain. |
| Betina Johansson | Translation and Culture: Focusing on the Problems of Translating Cultural Terms in Tourist Brochures. |
| Katariina Kulmala- Rego |
Some Perspectives in Teaching Content in English: a Case Study. |
| Micaela Lindahl | The South African Investment Climate in the Eyes of Finnish Companies. |
| Signe-Anita Lindgrén | Contracted Forms in the International Corpus of Learner English and in Grammars and Usage Manuals. A Descriptive Study. |
| Harriet Mattfolk | Speaking Politely in English: Communicative Exercises in English Language Workbooks Used in Finland-Swedish Schools. |
| Anni Pirinen-Valmé | The Heretics of the Parsonage: Religion in Three Novels by the Brontë Sisters. |
| Maria Svenfelt | Hedging in NS and NNS Student Writing. A Cross-Cultural Study of Hedges in Argumentative Essays. |
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