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
• TANER CAN

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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…

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…

Résumé Les documents authentiques permettent à l’enseignant de langue étrangère de mettre ses apprenants en contact avec la langue et la culture cibles. Cependant, pour que leur usage soit efficace et qu’ils soient bien perçus comme authentique par les apprenants, il convient de les exploiter convenablement en leur ap…

• VEDA ASLIM YETİŞ

Abstract Stance plays a salient role in communicating interpersonal meaning through language use. Understanding stance as co-constructed within dialogic interaction uncovers subtleties of how interlocutors use language to express their subjectivities and thus, negotiate their interpersonal relationship. The notion of…

• HATİME ÇİFTÇİ

With the purpose of describing the rhetorical preferences in composition, a field that has not received adequate attention in genre research, this article reports on an exploratory analysis of the moves and steps that make up research article introductions in the journals Written Communication and Journal of Second La…

• DEMET YAYLI