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A Cognitive Study on the Comparion of Basic Colour Terms in Turkish and English Idioms
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)Despite the common acceptance of metaphorical language as one of the components of rhetoric since the ancient times, it has been regarded as the undeniable constituent of culture since the second half of the twentieth ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 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) ... -
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 ...
