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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This study explores the speech acts of condolences in Turkish uttered in response to death announcements on Facebook. Methodologically, the first step of this study comprises the analysis of the condolences in Turkish ...

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 ...

Sections titled “About Us”, “Who We Are” and similar, termed “autobiographical web pages” (AWPs) in this study, are a common feature of many websites, with a shared communicative goal of informing the reader about the ...