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Early Acquisition of Figurative Competence: Comprehension of Idiomatic Expressions in Turkish Between Seven and Eleven Years of Age
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)As one type of figurative language, idiomatic expressions are found in a majority of human communication. With their structural, semantic and discourse features and constraints, idiomatic expressions differ substantially ... -
Emotional and Functional Attitudes of Native Speakers Towards Gagauz as an Endangered Language
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)This study mainly investigated the language attitudes in the context of endangered languages. The Gagauz language, an endangered language, was investigated on the basis of emotional and functional attitudes. To this end, ... -
Evaluation and Construction of Political Reality in the Speeches of Turkish Political Party Leaders: ‘Judgement’ and ‘Engagement’ Analysis
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)Based on the Appraisal Theory, this study attempts to explore the Judgement and Engagement strategies employed in Turkish political party group speeches. The strategies that political party leaders use in their evaluative ... -
Fıguratıve Language Competence of Turkısh Young Adults Wıth Down Syndrome: An Analysıs of Idıom Comprehensıon and Interpretatıon
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)KORKMAZ, Nurbanu. Figurative Language Competence of Turkish Young Adults with Down Syndrome: An Analysis of Idiom Comprehension and Interpretation, Ph.D. Dissertation, Ankara, 2021. With a particular emphasis on idiom ... -
Gender Representation in Central Anatolian Culture: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Folk Tales
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-12-14)This study aims to investigate how gender ideology is constructed in selected Anatolian Folk Tales: Helvacı Güzeli, Keçeli Kız, Erkek Kılığına Giren Kız, Kız Çocuklarını Sevmeyen İki Padişah and Yaşlı Adam ve Kızları. This ... -
Indexing social meaning: Sociophonetic variables and listener perceptions of Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07-06)The communicative content taking place between speakers and listeners yield variation in which people transmit and interpret the messages. In regard to the variation in pronunciation, the phonemic nature of sounds and their ... -
Indexing social meaning: Sociophonetic variables and listener perceptions of Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07-06)The communicative content taking place between speakers and listeners yield variation in which people transmit and interpret the messages. In regard to the variation in pronunciation, the phonemic nature of sounds and their ... -
Intergenerational Analysis of Kyrgyz and Russian Languages in the Context of Post-Soviet Revitalization Policy
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)This thesis analyses Kyrgyz and Russian languages in terms of language use, language attitudes and language proficiency among young and old generations in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. The aim of this thesis is to ... -
Investigating The Relationship Between L1 And L2 Collocational Processing in The Bilingual Mental Lexicon
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-06)Many studies have attempted to investigate how the bilingual mental lexicon is structured and it has been suggested by various researchers that both lexicons or L1 and L2 lexical items in a single mental lexicon seem to ... -
Linguistic Study on the System of Personal Name Signs in Turkish Sign Language(TİD)
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Present study which is a preliminary one for the formation of personal name signs in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) aims at investigating the system of personal name signs and describing the naming behavior in TİD with reference ... -
Motion Predicates In Turkish: A Morpho-Syntactic Treatment
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)Research on space and language has had fruitful outcomes in the last decades. One of the related domains of study is motion itself, which is central to our experience. Although the work on the semantic analysis of motion ... -
Plant-Themed Metaphors In Turkısh Proverbs: A Cognıtıve Approach
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021-02)Plants play an unneglectable role in human-life; therefore, they are among the most used concrete items that the human mind takes advantage of while understanding abstract concepts. The aim is to find out how Turkish people ... -
Pragmatic and Conversational Functions of Tag Questions in Turkish: Comparison between Natural Speech and Classroom Setting
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017-12-15)Involving an anchor and a tag, tag questions serve as pragmatic tools in a language. Apart from their syntactic features, in a more general sense, in natural speech speakers take advantage of their pragmatic properties to ... -
Processing of preverbal scrambling in Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)This psycholinguistic study aims to find out the effects of scrambling in processing and perception of congruency in Turkish sentences. In line with this aim, another purpose of the present study is to find out whether ... -
Processing of Turkish Complex Sentences with Wh-Phrases
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)This study analyses the processing of complex sentences with wh-phrases in Turkish with two eye tracking experiments. Experiment 1 is conducted with kim-E (to whom), while experiment 2 is conducted with when (ne zaman). ... -
Reference Tracking In Children’s Story Books In Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)This study investigates the reference tracking strategies used in children’s story books in Turkish and aims to find out how referring expressions – noun phrases, overt pronouns and zero pronouns – in subject position are ... -
The Acquisition of Null and Overt Subjects in L2 Turkish at the Syntax Discourse Interface Across Different Languages
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)This study investigates the acquisition of null and overt subjects at the syntax-discourse interface across discourse null subject and non-null subject languages in L2 Turkish and focuses on L1 transfer effects. Considering ... -
The Analysis of the L2 Performances of Turkish Speakers on the Island Constraints in English to Assess the Validity of the Interpretability Hypothesis
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)The present study aimed to analyze the validity of the Interpretability Hypothesis by analyzing the performances of the Turkish L2 leaners of English on island constraints on wh-movement in English. The data of the study ... -
The Effects of Syntactic Priming on Turkish English Bilinguals’ Production of Passive Sentences
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)Syntactic priming is defined as the tendency of producing recently exposed utterance. The present study investigates the effects of syntactic priming which is passive structure on the production of passives among 30 Turkish ... -
The Role of Context on Processing of Turkish Subject and Object Relative Clauses
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07-04)Sentence processing is one of the major topics that is studied in psycholinguistics. Relative clauses due to their complex structures have offered a rich test bed to researchers studying in the psycholinguistics (Traxler, ...
