İngiliz Dilbilimi Bölümü Tez Koleksiyonu: Güncel gönderi
Toplam kayıt 51, listelenen: 21-40
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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 ... -
The Vowel Triangle of Turkish and Phonological Processes of Laxing and Fronting in Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2020)One of the motives for this thesis is the need for a universal vowel chart based on acoustic fact. The vowel quadrilateral represented in the IPA chart distorts the vowel space in terms of acoustic phonetics. Lindsey (2017) ... -
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 ... -
The Effects of Syntactic Priming on Turkish English Bilinguals’ Production of Passive Sentences
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019)Syntactic priming is defined as the tendency of producing recently exposed utterance. The present study investigates the effects of syntactic priming which is passive structure on the production of passives among 30 Turkish ... -
Thematic And Discursive Construction of Homosexual Movement In Turkey Through Kaos GL Magazine
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-04-12)This dissertation aims at investigating thematic and discursive construction of homosexuality through texts published in Kaos GL Magazine, the first and longest-standing alternative gay and lesbian publication in Turkey. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Indexing social meaning: Sociophonetic variables and listener perceptions of Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07-06)The communicative content taking place between speakers and listeners yield variation in which people transmit and interpret the messages. In regard to the variation in pronunciation, the phonemic nature of sounds and their ... -
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 ... -
The Role of Context on Processing of Turkish Subject and Object Relative Clauses
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07-04)Sentence processing is one of the major topics that is studied in psycholinguistics. Relative clauses due to their complex structures have offered a rich test bed to researchers studying in the psycholinguistics (Traxler, ... -
Investigating The Relationship Between L1 And L2 Collocational Processing in The Bilingual Mental Lexicon
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-06)Many studies have attempted to investigate how the bilingual mental lexicon is structured and it has been suggested by various researchers that both lexicons or L1 and L2 lexical items in a single mental lexicon seem to ... -
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 ... -
Indexing social meaning: Sociophonetic variables and listener perceptions of Turkish
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018-07-06)The communicative content taking place between speakers and listeners yield variation in which people transmit and interpret the messages. In regard to the variation in pronunciation, the phonemic nature of sounds and their ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
Evaluation and Construction of Political Reality in the Speeches of Turkish Political Party Leaders: ‘Judgement’ and ‘Engagement’ Analysis
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)Based on the Appraisal Theory, this study attempts to explore the Judgement and Engagement strategies employed in Turkish political party group speeches. The strategies that political party leaders use in their evaluative ... -
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) ...
