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PROFILING NEAR-SYNONYMY: A CORPUS-DRIVEN ANALYSIS OF THE TURKISH ADJECTIVES BÜYÜK, İRİ, AND KOCA
Muhammet Fatih Adıgüzel
2026-01-06
Post-Pandemic Teacher Education: Opinions of English Teacher Educators on Hybrid System
Dündar, Esin
The wave of change in the educational landscape started with Emergency Remote Teaching due to the pandemic and was followed by the hybrid system adopted in higher education institutions. The present study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of the hybrid system on English teacher education and get the reflections of English teacher educators regarding its post-effects on teacher candidates. To this end, 18 English teacher educators from 10 different state universities were reached to evaluate postpandemic teacher education. Adopting a qualitative research design, the participants were asked to complete a survey that included nine questions about different learner types that emerged due to online instruction, the effects of the hybrid system on teacher educators and teacher candidates, an...
Exploring the Turkish Concept İrkil-: Corpus-driven Cognitive and Lexical Profiling of a Pre-emotion
Muhammet Fatih Adıgüzel | Yeşim Aksan
As a multi-disciplinary study about irkil- (get startled), which combines findings from psychology, cognitive and corpus linguistics, the article aims to identify the lexical profile and cognitive structure of this pre-emotion through its concordances from the TNC. We employed model of extended lexical units, which involves identifying irkil’s typical collocates, colligates, semantic preferences and discourse prosodies. As part of its event schema, irkil- was found to have a linguistic schema to be filled by certain paradigmatic and syntagmatic choices. We found typical collocates of irkil- are determined by the experiencer’s pre-startle situation (engrossment/absence), sudden stimuli of acoustic, tactile, visual and cognitive natures, post-startle behavioural tendencies characterised by...
Conceptual Blending Theory: The Case of ‘Flying Bus’ from Turkish
Muhammet Fatih Adıgüzel
Theory (CIT) and Conceptual metaphor Theory (CMT), this study investigates the application of Conceptual Blending Theory to a Turkish scenario where a Turkish speaker conceptualises a dangerously speeding bus as flying and associates it with Turkish Airlines. The study emphasizes the role of conceptual blending in creating novel meanings online by integrating disparate conceptual elements, as well as highlighting the complementary nature of CIT and CMT in meaning construction. In our scenario, the speaker’s metaphoric utterance as a reaction to the overspeed of a bus was explained by the metaphor TOO FAST DRIVING IS FLYING, which inherits the superordinate metaphor FAST MOTION IS FLIGHT, which is entrenched in our cultural cognition. Through a conceptual blending ne...
Uncovering the role of English language teaching coursebooks in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage / Explorando el rol de los libros de texto de inglés para salvaguardar el patrimonio cultural inmaterial
Dündar, Esin
UNESCO and local organizations raise concern over the threats towards Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and continue their efforts to get help from any field possible for introducing ICH elements and raising awareness. Education is one of those fields. Considering the relation between culture and English language teaching, ICH can be incorporated into English classrooms. Besides, being the primary source of input in a language classroom, ELT coursebooks can serve as a bearer of culture. In this regard, this paper discusses the role of English language teaching coursebooks in the safeguarding of ICH by revealing the representation of ICH elements in locally produced coursebooks from 16 different countries: Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysi...
‘Like an imprisoned robin’: Similes by English language teachers on teaching in and beyond the times of COVID‐19
Dündar, Esin
This qualitative study captured the reflections of 53 English language teachers from 40 different contexts including Bangladesh, Colombia, France, India, Scotland, Taiwan, Türkiye and the United Kingdom on teaching English during the times of COVID-19 and its post-effects on their practices. Data were collected through an online form consisting of three stems and the participants were asked to create similes about teaching English before, during and after the pandemic. By conducting thematic analysis, images created for each phase were categorized under occupational well-being, digital transformation, transactional distance, gap of communication and social isolation. Teachers pointed out work overload, lack of administrational support, instructions' not making sense, decreasing level of pa...
5th Grade English Language Teaching Curricula in Turkey: Expectations vs. Realities
Dündar, Esin
This study aims to reveal the opinions of English teachers, advisors and a member of Curriculum Development Committee of Ministry of National Education about 5th grade English Language Curricula in Turkey. To this end, 100 English teachers were given Curriculum Opinion Scales. Fifteen English teachers, three advisors, and a member of Curriculum Development Committee were also interviewed through semi-structured interviews in order to add to the quantitative findings. The curricula were evaluated in terms of learning objectives and content, assessment and evaluation, coursebook as an instructional material, language skills, principle of appropriateness, and continuum of learning. Furthermore, participants shared their opinions on curriculum literacy, class hours, methodological perspectives...
A Corpus-Driven Study on the Turkish Focus Particle Sırf
Muhammet Fatih Adıgüzel
This is a corpus-driven study based on the TNCv3.0 to determine the co-occurrence patterns of the focus particle sırf (only/just) in its scopes. The study revealed that sırf’s syntactic associates are largely phrases or clauses of purpose or reason. Over half of the 430 concordance lines analysed had various purpose or reason expressions as sırf’s focused constitutes. The most frequent colligates in the exclusive operator’s scopes are reason and purpose markers diye or için, ranking the first two in its collocation list. This very strong lexical priming suggests a pragmatic motivation. By choosing sırf rather than any other particles like sadece or yalnızca, the speaker not only marks the single reason or purpose for which something is done but also often reflects a negative attitude to ...
SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE TURKISH DISCOURSE PARTICLE HELE: A CORPUS-DRIVEN STUDY IN LEXICAL PROFILING
Muhammet Fatih Adıgüzel
The present study investigates the Turkish discourse particle hele, commonly used especially in spoken Turkish, in terms of its semantic and pragmatic uses in naturally occurring language. All analyses are based on attested data obtained from Turkish National Corpus (demo version). This corpus-driven study is thus naturally a product of an inductive undertaking. First, the common senses and corpus-driven pragmatic functions of the discourse particle hele are determined and further analyzes are carried out to derive its lexical profile from a variety of contexts of use. To this end, hele’s common collocation patterns hele o, hele şu, hele bir and hele bir de are analyzed in their contexts and then basic observations on its colligations, semantic preference and semantic p...
Analysis of the Pragmatic Functions of the Turkish Discourse Markers Halbuki and Oysa (Ki)
Muhammet Fatih Adıgüzel
This study investigates the pragmatic functions of the Turkish discourse markers halbuki and oysa (ki), which are commonly associated with contrastive relations in discourse. Adopting a corpus-based approach, the study argues that these forms function not only as contrastive connectors but also as multifunctional discourse markers that encode speaker stance, expectation violation, and inferential guidance. Through an analysis of their distribution, positional patterns, and contextual uses, the study examines how halbuki and oysa (ki) contribute to discourse coherence and the organization of information structure. The findings demonstrate that both markers play a significant role in establishing presuppositions, structuring opposing viewpoints, and guiding the hearer’s interpretive processe...
KAVRAMSAL HARMANLAMA KURAMI ÜZERINE NOTLAR VE ÖRNEKLER
Muhammet Fatih Adıgüzel
Bu çalışma, Bilişsel Dilbilim alanında Fauconnier ve Turner tarafından geliştirilen ve anlamın zihinsel inşasını dinamik bir süreç olarak ele alan Kavramsal Harmanlama Kuramı’nı (Conceptual Blending Theory) incelemektedir. Çalışmanın temel amacı, ağırlıklı olarak İngilizce kaynakların bulunduğu bu alanda Türkçe terminoloji önerileri sunarak kuramsal bir çerçeve çizmektir. Çalışmada, Kavramsal Metafor Kuramı’ndan farklı olarak, harmanlama işleminin en az dört zihinsel alandan (girdi alanları, genel alan ve harmanlama alanı) oluşan ağ yapısı ve bu süreçte ortaya çıkan “türemiş yapı” (emergent structure) kavramı detaylandırılmıştır. Kuramsal temellerin somutlaştırılması amacıyla, alanyazında sıkça tartışılan “Bu cerrah bir kasaptır” ve “Öfkeden kulaklarından duman çıkmak” örnekleri, zihinsel ...
Turkish Existentials: A Semantic, Functional and Typological Overview
Muhammet Fatih Adıgüzel
The purpose of the study is to discuss basic issues concerning the existential constructions in Turkish both morpho-syntactically and semantically as well as referring to any pragmatic concerns involved in the selection of an existential form. The study is not only a descriptive study that deals with issues about the basic existential predicates used in Turkish, namely var and yok, but also sheds light on other lexical items that express existence in Turkish such as the adjectival counterpart mevcut, and the verbal existential predicates bulun-, and dur-. With many examples over 50, it gives learners of Turkish as a foreign language and researchers interested in Turkish studies valuable insights into the semantic and structural properties of the Turkish existential oper...
CONTEXT-DEPENDENT EXISTENTIAL FUNCTION OF SÖZ KONUSU AND SEMANTIC PROPERTIES OF NOUNS IN ITS PIVOTS
Muhammet Fatih Adıgüzel
2026-01-06
EXPLORING THE NUANCES BETWEEN TWO POWERFUL SYNONYMS IN TURKISH: “KUŞKULAN-” AND “ŞÜPHELEN-”
Muhammet Fatih Adıgüzel
2026-01-06
Yemler Bilgisi Yem Teknolojisi ve Balık Besleme
Bilgüven, Murat
Her havuz alanında ya da yetiştirme biriminden elde edilen balık ve dolayısıyla balık yetiştiriciliğinin kârlılığı, büyük ölçüde kullanılan yemin miktarına bağlıdır. Su ürünleri sistemi ne kadar yoğun olursa yemlemenin önemi o kadar fazla olur ve toplam üretim maliyetinde yem maliyetinin payı da o kadar artar. Bilindiği üzere alabalık başta olmak üzere bazı balıkların yetiştiriciliği için akarsu sistemli tesisler kullanılmakta yada sıcaklığın, su bileşiminin ve akıntının dolayısıyla oksijen yoğunluğunun daha iyi olduğu tatlı su ve kıyılarda ise yüzer ağ kafeslerde yetiştiricilik yapılmaktadır. Su ürünleri yetiştiriciliğinin ileri durumda olduğu ülkelerde entansif yetiştiricilik uygulanmakta ve yetiştirme alanlarında birim hacimde maksimum ürün yetiştirilmeye çalışılmaktadır. Bu tür yetişti...