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The Move Analysis of Turkish Research Article Abstracts: A Comparative Study
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Abstracts are important parts of research articles in that they give the reader preliminary information about the article. In addition abstracts encourage the reader to read the article, and give clues about the conclusion ... -
A Genre Analysis of the Autobiographical Web Pages of Third Wave Coffee Shops in Türkiye
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)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 ... -
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 ... -
A Sociopragmatic Study on Turkish Native Speakers’ Condolence Speech Acts
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Identity in Turkish Newspapers
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)This study aimed to analyze gender identity in Turkish media context as presented in three Turkish newspapers: Hürriyet, Sözcü, and Yeni Akit from a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. It employed Fairclough’s three ... -
Turkish Verbal Irony Comprehension in Children Aged 5 and 6 Years
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023-05-11)This study aims to investigate the accuracy rate of the comprehension and processing times of ironic and literal utterances among five- and six-year-old Turkish-speaking children (N = 60) and a control group of adults (N ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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) ... -
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 ...