THESES
DOCTORAL THESES
2011
Tuomas Huttunen
The Ethics of Representation in the Fiction of Amitav Ghosh
2010
Janne Korkka
The Ethics of Knowing in the Writings of Rudy Wiebe
Elina Valovirta
Sexual Feelings: Reading, Affectivity and Sexuality in a Selection of Anglophone Caribbean Women's Writing
2009
Riia Milovanov
The Connectivity of Musical Aptitude and Foreign Language Learning Skills: Neural and Behavioural Evidence
Janne Skaffari
Studies in Early Middle English Loanwords: Norse and French Influences
2004
Pekka Lintunen
Pronunciation and Phonemic Transcription. A study of advanced Finnish learners of English
2000
Matti Peikola
Congregation of the Elect: Patterns of Self-Fashioning in English Lollard Writings
Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
Collaborating towards Coherence: Lexical Cohesion across Spoken and Written Discourse in English
1999
Ellen Valle
A Collective Intelligence. The Life Sciences in the Royal Society as a Scientific Discourse Community, 1665-1965
1994
Hilkka Yli-Jokipii
Requests in professional discourse: A cross-cultural study of British, American and Finnish business writing
1992
Juhani Norri
Names of sicknesses in English, 1400-1550: An exploration of the lexical field
1990
Päivi Pietilä
The English of Finnish Americans: With reference to social and psychological background factors and with special reference to age
1986
Gunnel Cleve
Elements of mysticism in three of William Golding's novels
1985
Jorma Tommola
Context effects in the processing of English as a foreign language
1984
Krista Varantola
On noun phrase structures in engineering English
1979
Viljo Kohonen
On the development of English word order in religious prose around 1000 and 1200 A.D. A quantitative study of word order in context
1975
Marita Gustafsson
Binominal expressions in Present-Day English. A syntactic and semantic study
1969
Liisa Dahl
Nominal style in Shakespearean soliloquy. With reference to the early English drama, Shakespeare's immediate predecessors and his contemporaries
1965
Kalevi Wiik
Finnish and English vowels. A comparison with special reference to the learning problems met by native speakers of Finnish learning English
1962
Inna Koskenniemi
Studies in the vocabulary of English drama 1550-1600. Excluding Shakespeare and Ben Jonson
1951
Esko Pennanen
Chapters on the language in Ben Jonson's dramatic works
LICENTIATE THESES
2007
Raita Merivirta-Chakrabarti
The Novelist as Historian: History and Historiography in Shashi Thadoor's The Great Indian Novel
Johanna Karhukorpi
Negotiating Opinions in Lingua Franca E-Mail Discussion Groups: Discourse structure, hedging and repair in online communication
2005
Elina Valovirta
Communication Knowledge: Postcolonial Feminist Reader Theory in the Fiction of Erna Brodber
Tuija Huokkola
The Representation of Islam and Muslims in Three Anglo-American Newspapers
2004
Marjatta Rännäli
"I'm Delighted to Report" Rhetorical Organization and Strategies in Chairman's Statements in Anglo-American and Finnish Annual Reports
2002
Pirjo Rasi
Fictional Journey into Newness: Intercultural Experience through Selected Finnish American Narratives
2001
Janne Korkka
Polyphonic Histories: Constructions of Voice in the Fiction of Rudy Wiebe
Tuomas Huttunen
Narrative Re-arrangement of the Past and Three Migrant Novels of the Indian Diaspora
2000
Janne Skaffari
Early Middle English Loanwords: A Study of Language Contact and Lexical Borrowing
Pekka Lintunen
An Error Analysis of the Phonemic Transcription of English Produced by Finnish Students
1999
Minna Scheinin
Middle English Cookery Recipes. A Study of the Vocabulary with Special Reference to the French Influence
Maija S. Peltola
The Approximant Sounds: A Contrastive Study of Finnish and English
Farnaz Afshar Harb
Ulysses: A Postcolonial Reading
Petri Vuorinen
Second Language Learners in Bilingual Education. A Cross-Cultural Study of the Characteristics of Finnish and American Students in the Light of Cognitive Second Language Learning Theories
1996
Ulrika Maude
Samuel Beckett's trilogy: A poststructuralist reading
1995
Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
Lexical cohesion across spoken and written discourse
1994
Outi Pickering
Personification in the poetry of Robert Burns
1993
Ellen Valle
The talkative community: Rhetorical, textual and pragmatic features in Royal Society texts, 1711-1870
1992
Hilkka Yli-Jokipii
Requests in professional discourse: A cross-cultural study of British, American and Finnish business writing
1991
Marianna Sunnari
Information structure and translation with special reference to English and Finnish
1988
Heini-Marja Järvinen
Relative clauses in three different genres of Present-Day English
Tuija Virtanen
Discourse functions of adverbial placement in English: Clause-initial adverbials of time and place in narratives and procedural place descriptions
1987
Juhani Norri
Studies in the medical vocabulary of fifteenth-century English, with special reference to four collections of medicinal recipes compiled around the middle of the century
1985
Ossi Pursiheimo
Nominalization in a narrow variety of technical English and three other nonaesthetic texts
1981
Krista Varantola
Chain compounds in present-day journalism
1979
Pirjo Neuvonen
On compound substantives in 'lfric's Lives of Saints
1978
Jorma Tommola
Aspects of linguistic expectancy in English and Finnish
1976
Risto Hiltunen
Studies in the history of the phrasal verb in Old and early Middle English
Uolevi Karrakoski
The vocabulary of Jonathan Swift's Tory Pamphlets. A study of polemic style
1974
Mikko Elo
Terms relating to the car, traffic, and driving in British and American English. An onomasiological study
Viljo Kohonen
On the development of word order in late Old English and early Middle English prose (ca. 1000-1200)
1969
Marita Gustafsson
Trends in the development of the base component of English transformational grammar: 1957-1967
1968
Ilkka Raimo
On Finnish and English unstressed vowels
1960
Liisa Dahl
Notes on the interior monologues in the works of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Eugene O'Neill
Kalevi Wiik
The stressed single vowels of Finnish and English: An articulatory-acoustic-perceptional comparison
1957
Inna Koskenniemi
Studies in the language and style of Christopher Marlowe