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Early Acquisition of Figurative Competence: Comprehension of Idiomatic Expressions in Turkish Between Seven and Eleven Years of Age
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)
As one type of figurative language, idiomatic expressions are found in a majority of human communication. With their structural, semantic and discourse features and constraints, idiomatic expressions differ substantially ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Emotional and Functional Attitudes of Native Speakers Towards Gagauz as an Endangered Language
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2015)
This study mainly investigated the language attitudes in the context of endangered languages. The Gagauz language, an endangered language, was investigated on the basis of emotional and functional attitudes. To this end, ...
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 ...
The Analysis of the L2 Performances of Turkish Speakers on the Island Constraints in English to Assess the Validity of the Interpretability Hypothesis
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)
The present study aimed to analyze the validity of the Interpretability Hypothesis by analyzing the performances of the Turkish L2 leaners of English on island constraints on wh-movement in English. The data of the study ...
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 ...
Processing of Turkish Complex Sentences with Wh-Phrases
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2014)
This study analyses the processing of complex sentences with wh-phrases in Turkish with two eye tracking experiments. Experiment 1 is conducted with kim-E (to whom), while experiment 2 is conducted with when (ne zaman). ...
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 ...
