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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Thematic And Discursive Construction of Homosexual Movement In Turkey Through Kaos GL Magazine
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-04-12)This dissertation aims at investigating thematic and discursive construction of homosexuality through texts published in Kaos GL Magazine, the first and longest-standing alternative gay and lesbian publication in Turkey. ... -
The Vowel Triangle of Turkish and Phonological Processes of Laxing and Fronting in Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020)One of the motives for this thesis is the need for a universal vowel chart based on acoustic fact. The vowel quadrilateral represented in the IPA chart distorts the vowel space in terms of acoustic phonetics. Lindsey (2017) ... -
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 ... -
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) ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Dıachronıc And Gender-Based Analysıs Of Turkısh Ma Theses: The Use Of Metadıscourse Markers
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)Metadiscourse has been particularly valuable in written discourse as they help organizing and producing persuasive texts with textual and interpersonal functions. This study aims to reveal how the authors of Turkish master’s ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
