Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

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• AGUSTİN MARİANO IBANEZ

This study examines the construction of Turkey's possible membership of the European Union (EU) in French political discourse, after the Helsinki European Council of 1999. The primary objective of the article is to investigate which discursive strategies and which linguistic structures have been instrumental in this c…

• BEYZA ÇAĞATAY TEKİN

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• TANER CAN

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• HAKAN CANGIR
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• BALKIZ BAŞARAN

The aim of this comparative study is to investigate the deployment of interactional metadiscourse features in two different academic genres. For this purpose, a small, specialized corpus of 48 research articles and book reviews from seven different disciplines were collected. The conclusion sections of the texts writt…

• BETÜL BAL GEZEGİN
• MELİKE BAŞ

This thesis is an investigation of the semantic and morpho-syntactic properties of nouns and noun phrases in Turkish. Adopting a hybrid model of formal and lexical semantic views on noun semantics and nominal number as a theoretical basis, the primary objective of this work is to account for why nouns and noun phrases…

Given the use of appropriate uncertainty, the right strength of claim for the data, politeness and proper positioning oneself, though hedging is an important component of western academic discourse there appears inadequate awareness. The present study aims to reveal the tendency and preferences of Turkish and Anglo-sp…

Repetitions are resources for maintaining intersubjectivity and collaborative meaning-making in talk. The aim of this study was to investigate repetitions in more detail in terms of types of repetitions (self–other) to determine the functions of repetitions in conversations involving friends speaking in Turkish. After…

• GÖKLEM TEKDEMİR

This study of English as a second language (ESL) reading textbooks investigates cohesion in reading passages from 27 textbooks. The guiding research questions were whether and how cohesion differs across textbooks written for beginning, intermediate, and advanced second language readers. Using a computational tool cal…

• ZEYNEP BİLKİ

This chapter investigates the syntactic properties of the prominent possessor constructions in Turkish. Possessors of possessive phrases become prominent only in a set of well-defined constructions, namely, from within an adverbial clause, typically containing a body part idiom. These idioms have the structure NP-POSS…

This study explores the use of rhetorical figures in political party slogans in Turkey. In the first stage of the research, a content analysis establishes that the use of rhetorical figures in political party slogans is limited. Irony and metaphor appear to be the two most commonly used rhetorical devices in political…

• AYŞE İLGÜN KAMANLI