This thesis aims to analyse the lexical profiles of five Turkish sadness-related verbs—üzül-, hüzünlen-, dertlen-, kederlen-, and tasalan—by examining their collocations, colligations, semantic preferences, and prosodies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...