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Boosting And Hedging In Turkish Research Articles
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021-02-08)Stance refers to “different kinds of personal feelings and assessments, including attitudes that a speaker has about certain information” (Biber, 2006b: 99). Using appropriate linguistic conventions helps the author convey ... -
Characterizing Multi-Participant TV Debate as an Argumentative Activity Type: A Pragma-Dialectical Analysis of the Argumentative Discourse in Siyaset Meydanı
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)This dissertation sets out to characterize multi-participant TV debate (MPTD) as an argumentative activity type by introducing the genre of communication and the institutional context of the activity type which constrain ... -
Codeswitching Between Azeri and Persian: Sociolinguistic and Structural Aspcets
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020-01-27)The present study is an attempt to shed light on the language contact phenomenon viz. codeswitching occurring between Azeri and Persian by the bilingual speakers of these languages in the context of Tabriz, Iran. To this ... -
Conceptualızatıon of Emotıon Through Body Part Idıoms in Turkısh: A Cognıtıve Lınguıstıc Study
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)This dissertation addresses three problems: (1) distribution of the body part terms used in idioms to express emotions; (2) categorization and distribution of emotion concepts in relation to the body part idioms; (3) ... -
Context Type Effects on Attachment Preferences in Disambiguating Turkish Relative Clauses
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024-02-15)In psycholinguistics, for understanding the processing and comprehension of sentences, relative clause structures are widely studied. Because of their complex structures, relative clauses allow researchers to derive ... -
Critical Discourse Analysis of Yaşar Kemal's İnce Memed I: A Textual and Intertextual Perspective
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) enables a researcher to analyse a text to find the engagement of language to hegemony and ideology. Major aim of this study is to make the critical discourse analysis of Yaşar Kemal’s İnce ... -
Cumulative and Collective Readings in the Sentences Containing Plural Ambiguity in Turkish: A Priming Study
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)Some sentences, which contain more than one plural expression, namely numerical expressions, bring about lexical ambiguities. For example, the sentence ‘İki çocuk üç kitap taşıdı.’ (Two boys carried three books) contains ... -
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 ...
