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A Comparative Register Analysis of The Language of Cooking Used in Turkish Recipes
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2013)Discourse analysis is defined as the description and analysis of both spoken and written language use (Paltridge, 2008, p. 3). Discourse analysis itself has various approaches. One of these discoursal approaches to the ... -
A Computer Mediated Analysis of Neologisms Used by Turkish Speakers on X Social Media Platform
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)Neologism refers to newly emerged words and expressions or new definitions for existing words or expressions. Neologisms are an essential part of lexicography and etymology studies since new words constantly emerge in ... -
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 ... -
A Linguistic Study on Word Association Behavior of Turkish Speaking Children in Urban and Rural Settings: A Socio-Cognitive Perspective
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)Word association is one of the major techniques used in linguistics, neuropsychology and psycholinguistics. In this study, the researcher used word association test in an attempt to reveal the influence of the residential ... -
A Psycholinguistic Study on the Pronoun Comprehension and Processing of Turkish Alzheimer’s Patients
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)Many abilities of patients of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) such as attention, language comprehension, processing and production might demonstrate adverse changes as a result of the disease. It has been observed that studies ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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) ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
