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A Structural and Stylistic Analysis of Turkish Proverbs
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)This study examined Turkish proverbsin terms of structural analysis and proverbial markers to reveal what structures are prominant and how they affect Turkish proverbs. The universe of this study consist of 2667 proverbs ... -
An Analysis of Motion Event Components and Accompanying Gestures in Turkish Narratives in Terms of Sentential Focus Position
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)The present study investigates motion event expressions and their accompanyinggestures in Turkish discourse. Firstly, it aims to present the lexicalization patterns ofliteral motion event descriptions in Turkish comparing ... -
An Analysis of Conversational Narratives in Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)Conversational narratives are performed in conversations as the spontaneous and interactional achievements of the teller(s) and the listener(s). With this concern, many studies in narrative tradition focus on conversational ... -
An Analysis of Turkish Singular Pronouns Based on Accessibility Theory
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)This study aims at analyzing the use of Turkish singular overt and zero pronouns based on Accessibility Theory proposed by Ariel (1988). For this aim, a sample is compiled from Turkish novels. In the excerpts from these ... -
An Experimental and Corpus Based Analysis of Temporal Converb Clauses in Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)The studies in cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics have reported that the positions of main and subordinate clauses in converb constructions are influenced by syntactic parsing, semantic and discourse-related factors ... -
AN EYE-TRACKING INVESTIGATION OF ATTACHMENT PREFERENCES TO RELATIVE CLAUSES IN TURKISH
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-06)In this study, the processing of attachment preferences to relative clauses (RC) in Turkish was analyzed through an eye-tracking technique and comprehension questions presented following each experimental sentence. Within ... -
An Eye-Tracking Investigation of Attachment Preferences to Relative Clauses in Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-06)In this study, the processing of attachment preferences to relative clauses (RC) in Turkish was analyzed through an eye-tracking technique and comprehension questions presented following each experimental sentence. Within ... -
Animacy Effect on Turkish Object Relative Clause Production among Young Adult Native Speakers of Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)This study investigates animacy influence on Turkish RC formation and its consistency in different tasks/contexts. Meanwhile, the interference of semantic (e.g. frequency) and syntactic variables (e.g. structural difficulty) ... -
Animal Metaphors in Persian and Turkish Roverbs: a Cognitive Linguistic Study
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2016)Bilişsel Dilbilim insan zihninin yapısının metaforik olduğunu ileri sürmektedir.Diğer bir deyişle, insanlar soyut kavramları daha somut kavramlarçerçevesinde kavramsallaştırmaktadırlar. Böylece, bize en yakın somut alanolan ... -
Apologizing in Turkish and Korean: A Cross-cultural Study
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)This study investigates the apology strategies of native speakers of Turkish (NTR) and native speakers of Korean (NKR) in varying social situations in terms of social distance, social dominance and the severity of the ... -
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 ...
