Inglise filoloogia bakalaureusetööd – Bachelor's theses
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Representation of depression in Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Literary works have depicted depression for centuries, but often the symptoms depicted are restricted to those of melancholy or suicidal ideation. Depictions of other aspects of the disorder are less common, and thus might ... -
A Low’s Pentathlon analysis of translations of Estonian songs in the Eurovision Song contest
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The translation of song lyrics is one of the more complex fields of translation. While translations of song lyrics are relatively rare compared to other types of translation, one of the common occurrences of them is in the ... -
Women’s roles and the protagonist’s quest for womanhood in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate how Margaret Atwood’s novel Surfacing that was published in 1972, could be viewed as a critique on society and gender roles in the 1960s and the 1970s. It is important to write ... -
Comparison of football commentaries in English and Estonian
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)This BA thesis looks at the language used during football matches by the commentators in English and Estonian. The paper was written out of personal interest in football and wish to study and explain sports commentaries. ... -
The University of Tartu and the UK undergraduates’ views on online studying during the COVID 19 pandemic
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)This bachelor’s thesis gives an overview of the University of Tartu Department of English studies BA students’ attitudes towards their studies during the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak based on an online survey compares them ... -
Sublime and the theme of incest in the gothic novel The Monk by M. G. Lewis
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Due to a somewhat universal treatment of such controversial topics as incest or even incestuous rape, the reaction or the emotions of any person upon encountering such themes in the fiction should be uniformly tinged with ... -
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 ...
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