Requirements for US-1 Group Projects

Selected Projects from 2008

• Eliisa Vainikka and Hanna-Riikka Roine:
  Chonga! Hispanic Teenage Girl Slang [PPT]

• Helmiina Munukka, Sanni Pulkki and Katri Mattila:
  'Finglish' and the Finnish-American People

• Eva-Lisa Hasan and Saara Karjalainen:
  Cultural References and Idioms in the TV series Friends [PDF]

• Anni Pilhjärta, Sini Huttunen, Aija Uusitalo and Niina Venäläinen:
  Swearing in the Film The Big Lebowski

• Santeri Laurén and Matti Hocksell: Boston English 101 [PPT]

Selected Projects from 2007

• Anni Aalto: A Language Comparison of the US and UK versions of the TV Program Queer As Folk [HTML]

• Jessica Weber and Fabian Rätzer:
  Language Analysis of the Movie American History X [PDF]

• Raine Lehtinen, Sinikka Puumalainen and Jaakko Sauvola:
  References to Cultural Stereotypes in the TV Series Mind of Mencia [HTML]

• Jenny Perttola and Eeva Niklander:
  Language in S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders (1967) [PPT]

• Minna Salomaa, Päivi Kouki and Rosamaaria Perttola:
  Language in David Koepp's Secret Window (2004) [HTML]

• Henriikka Mustalahti, Reetta Tapiola and Sanna Veteläinen:
  Cultural References in The Gilmore Girls [HTML]

• Anais Bascoul and Manuel Degrave: Cajun Language and Culture in the U.S. [HTML]

• Varpu Jutila: Jewish Language and Culture in the 1950s in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus [PDF]