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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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) ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ...
