Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity

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• NİLÜFER EVİŞEN

Over the last ten years the number of films produced in the German speaking countries in which the communication takes place in more than one language has increased substantially. In addition to the necessity to render the information on the characters and plot transmitted by ‘intralinguistic’ variations which should…

Semantic Analysis is an introductory handbook focussing on the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) developed by the author and Anna Wierzbicka. NSM provides ethnopragmatics with a rigorous tool for...

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This study is concerned with the relationships between foreign language speaking anxiety and demographic factors among undergraduate students. The study also attempts at predicting the roles of speaking anxiety and English self-efficacy on foreign language speaking anxiety. Versions of previously published scale (Spea…

The article argues for the Comp account (e.g., Groos and Van Riemsdijk 1981) over the head account (e.g., Bresnan and Grimshaw 1978) of free relatives (FRs), on the basis of several converging arguments from Croatian. Evidence from reconstruction effects shows that the wh-phrase introducing a free relative (WHFR) orig…

____________________ The influence of the native language in learning a foreign language is certainly indispensable. This influence can be either positive or negative. In order to observe the circumstances under which this influence is positive and/or negative, the following study was conducted in English phonology. T…

In this study, we investigated Turkish EFL teachers’ level of recognition of English accent varieties and their attitudes regarding three common domains, status (e.g. educatedness, intelligence), solidarity (friendliness, kindness), and dynamism (confidence, talkativeness). We also explored the English teachers’ choic…

In the field of ELT, a growing awareness has been paid to the use of correct and appropriate word combinations. Of methods and techniques existed in the literature, the issue of lexical collocation gets a great deal of attention. However, one of the main obstacles, particularly for non-native writers (NNW), is indeter…

The aim of this study is to determine the views of teachers and students about the teaching and learning of slang in teaching Turkish as a foreign language.The student-based working group of the study, using a screening model of quantitative research methods, is composed of B1, B2 and C1 level students who learn Turki…

Research has mainly focused on the causes and effects of foreign language anxiety (FLA), an affective factor that adversely affects speaking skills, while few studies have concentrated on how to decrease the level of FLA among English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. Moreover, research lacks the effects of the us…

• SELAMİ AYDIN

The objective of this study was to investigate the understanding of transparent and opaque English idiomatic expressions of Turkish students. In order to carry out the study, randomly selected 35 intermediate and 36 advanced level students in the Department of English Language and Literature at Kafkas University, Kars…

The volume explores the body part ‘eye’ as a source domain in conceptualization and a vehicle of embodied cognition. It includes in-depth case studies of languages situated in different cultural contexts in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania. It also provides insights into cross-linguistic comparison of concep…

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