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The role of trauma in Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game as a postcolonial bildungsroman
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The topic of this thesis is trauma in Rawi Hage’s novel De Niro’s Game. The aim of the thesis is to explore the characteristics that make Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game a postcolonial Bildungsroman and to compare the ... -
The use of first person pronoun in academic texts
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Academic writing has a set of rules that everyone in academia follows. One of these set rules is related to neutrality. In academia neutrality means that the author does not make their own presence noticeable in the text. ... -
Strategies used by Mati Soomre in translating Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Lewis Carroll’s work is exceptionally rich for its use of various literary techniques, which, coincidentally, makes it very hard to translate. As Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is his most famous story, research done ... -
The creation of the atmosphere of terror in Daphne du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Although Daphne du Maurier has always been recognised for her atmospheric stories ridden with darkness and suspense, the critical analysis of her work as part of the Gothic tradition is relatively recent. For this reason, ... -
Chinese Canadian women’s acculturation experience: Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Cafe
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)While dealing with Chinese Canadian experience, the present study emphasises an idea of broader significance that the acculturation of immigrants always depends on the interaction of several cultural and social aspects. ... -
The overuse of MAKE in Estonian learner language
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)High frequency verbs in learner language have received considerable attention in previous research, but little research has been done about the Estonian EFL learners and comparing the latter to native speakers’ speech. ... -
A comparison of the descriptions of characters: Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet and its Estonian translation
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)From the perspective of the target culture a translator’s work on a novel could be regarded as impactful and often as crucial as one of the the original author. As characters form a part of a story world, it is important ... -
Two Estonian Alices: comparing the translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Alice in Wonderland is a book that many people around the world know and love. A great deal of research has been done about the translation difficulties of Alice in Wonderland, however, not much research has been done about ... -
The representation of the sea in Jack London’s Martin Eden
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The present thesis explores different instances in which the protagonist, Martin, in Jack London’s Martin Eden uses sea related expressions in his everyday life. The main purpose of this thesis is to identify and analyze ... -
The construction and function of the character of Robert Ross in Timothy Findley’s The Wars
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Timothy Findley’s The Wars focuses on the story of a young man named Robert Ross with the novel presented as a research project with the aim to find out who Robert Ross was and what the possible reasons for his questionable ... -
The comparison of the usage of prefabs in the academic writing of Estonian EFL learners and native English speakers
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Languages largely consist of prefabricated expressions (prefabs), more broadly known by the term formulaic language. Accumulating more data in this field of study benefits second- and foreign language acquisition, and more ... -
A corpus-based study of like in Estonian EFL learners’ speech
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Pragmatic markers (PMs) are an essential part of conversation. However, with PMs such as like appearing everywhere, they are stigmatised as being only used for hesitation and therefore being meaningless. While definitely ... -
Masculinity in Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Gender norms continue to be a topic of great interest in today’s society. This topic has caused tensions and a large number of people have many different and vocal opinions. Gender norms have seen big changes over the ... -
Representation of coronavirus in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Since January of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has received a lot of global media attention. The aim of this thesis is to explore the representation of the pandemic in two highly respected newspapers, The New York Times ... -
The development of American accent in songs of Arctic Monkeys
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Arctic Monkeys, a British renowned band, and their lead singer Alex Turner has been the subject of phonetic analysis on two occasions – Beal (2009) analysed his choice of accent and dialectal words based on one song and ... -
Error rate of automated part-of-speech tagging of Estonian academic learner English
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Corpora are a great tool for linguistic research and improving learner language. At the moment, there exists the Tartu Corpus of Estonian Learner English (TCELE). However, it is small and lacking academic learner English. ... -
Empowerment and poetry: feminist Ideas in milk and honey by social media poet Rupi Kaur
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)This thesis studies how Rupi Kaur (1992), an Indian-born Canadian social media poet who deals with hurt, healing, self-love, and empowerment, empowers women through feminist elements in her first poetry collection milk and ... -
Comparison of immigration related news in two different UK media publications
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The aim of this paper is to establish how two different UK media publications, the Daily Mail and The Daily Mirror, present immigration-related news. Are there any significant differences in the news on the same theme? ... -
Internalized homophobia in AIDS plays: an analysis of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America BA Thesis
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The AIDS epidemic in the United States has left a significant mark in the American queer consciousness, literature, and theatre. The aim of this thesis is to look at The Normal Heart and Angels in America, as examples of ... -
Kunst im estnischen Deutschunterricht: Ein Unterrichtsentwurf zu ausgewählten deutschbaltischen Künstler*innen
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Das zentrale Thema der vorliegenden Magisterarbeit ist das Lernen der deutschen Sprache als Fremdsprache im estnischen Deutschunterricht durch das Miteinbeziehen von Werken aus der bildenden Kunst. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit ...
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