English Linguistics Department

1984

MA thesis

• Yıldız Ozan. Advertisement and language. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)

1985

MA thesis

• Bilal Çelik. Evaluation of progress tests in EFL administered at military high schools. (Danışman: Cengiz Tosun)
• Gürkan Doğan. Affective filter and foreign language learning: A case study. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• N. Zerrin Özil. The analysis of errors made by adult Turkish learners in learning English. (Danışman: Cengiz Tosun)

Dissertations

• Gülsev Pakkan. A text linguistic apporach to the analysis of Turkish literary narratives with specific emphasis on coherence. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)

1986

MA thesis

• Işık Arıkan. A linguistic analysis of the inverted sentence in Turkish. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Işıl İnce. An introductory phrase structure grammar of Turkish. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Şeyda Ülsever. Teaching translation at university level. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)

1987

MA thesis

• Aynur Boyer. A linguistic  analysis  of  Turkish  political  language (Sociolinguistic and discoursal perspectives). (Danışman: Güray König)
• Özlem Çakır. An ESP program for Turkish banks: Problems and procedures. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Tema Kiper. Proposition-based approaching translation. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Ümit Deniz Turan. A preliminary study on elliptical sentences in Turkish. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Serper Tümer. Teaching writing to pre-study EAP students. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)

Dissertations

• Fuat Altunkaya. Cohesion in Turkish a survey of cohesive devices in prose literature. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• İsmail Boztaş. Identifying academic English needs of English medium students in Hacettepe University for a communicative course design. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Ülker Vancı. Problems and difficulties of teaching English to Turkish adults. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)

1988

MA thesis

• Mustafa Aksan. A text-linguistic approach to the study of texts in Turkish preliminaries to the study of coherence in terms of procedural approach. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Banu Nerime Göksoy. Teaching a foreign language in primary school: A case study. (Danışman: Ünsal Özünlü)
• Nalan Kızıltan. Vocabulary teaching in communicative approach. (Danışman: Oya Külebi)
• Yeşim Kotan. Stylistic analysis of some Turkish texts with special reference to systemic grammar. (Danışman: Ünsal Özünlü)
• Kadir Vefa Tezel. Grammar and its importance in communicative language teaching. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Sevinç Tütüncü. Developing reading skills in Turkish. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Gülnur Uğuz. A preliminary study of idioms related to “Women” in Turkish and English. (Danışman: Güray König)

1989

MA thesis

• Işıl Açıkalın. Speech variation in Turkish teenagers. (Danışman: Güray König)

1990

Dissertations

• Işın Bengi. A re-evaluation of concept of equivalence in the literary translations of Ahmed Mithad Efendi: A linguistic perspective. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Hüsnü Enginarlar. A contrastive analysis of writing in Turkish and English of Turkish high school students. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Deniz Zeyrek. An analysis of textual pattern of the Turkish folktale. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)

1991

MA thesis

• Ceyhun Aksoy. The role of attention in macrostructural computations during discourse. (Danışman: Ünsal Özünlü)
• Erhan Kara. Figurative language  in modern Turkish  literature: Polysemy based on metaphors. (Danışman: Mine İşgüven)

Dissertations

• Nurgün Akar. Educational linguistics within English Language Teaching departments in Turkey. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu. Social  class  differences  in  the  standard  vocabulary development of the third and the fifth year students in three different elementary schools in İstanbul. (Danışman: Güray König)
• İlknur Keçik. Text processing skills of elementary school children: A study based on expository text type. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Gülsev Pakkan. Text linguistic apporach to the analysis of Turkish literary narratives with specific emphasis on coherence. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Şükriye Ruhi. Written text production in Turkish. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)

1992

MA thesis

• Resmiye Şabi. The use of Turkish Language in Turkish pop music songs. (Danışman: Aysu Erden)

Dissertations

• Güler Ülü. A textual analysis of news in the Turkish press. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)

1993

MA thesis

• Okşan Dağlı. Delayed speech in normal child. (Danışman: Çiler Özbayrak)
• Sündüz Şenipek Kınay. The language of humor in Turkish verbal jokes. (Danışman: Ünsal Özünlü)
• Ümit Söylemez. Euphemism as a reflection of culture on language. (Danışman: Güray König)

Dissertations

• Angelica Avcıkurt. Non-regional variation in present day Judeo-Spanish in İstanbul. (Danışman: Güray König)
• Işıl İnce. A linguistic analysis of language used in Turkish. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Şeyda Ülsever. Linguistic aspects of translation evaluation. (Danışman: Aysu Erden)

1994

MA thesis

• C. Evren Alpaslan. A comparative study on collocations in Turkish and English with special emphasis on lexical collocations. (Danışman: Mehmet Demirezen)
• Nalan Eren. Language variation in three popular Turkish plays. (Danışman: Güray König)

Dissertations

• Ceyhun Aksoy. Euphemism as a reflection of culture on language. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Majed Al-Quran. Discoursal problems of Jordanian EFL students  in argumentative writing with special reference to conjunctive relations. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Zeid Ahmed Shahmaileh. English language proficiency of Jordanian  community college students: With particular emphasis on the educational variables. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)

1995

MA thesis

• İnci Somuncu Botsalı. Attitudes of university students from different educational,  social  and  geograpgical  backgrounds towards Turkish varieties. (Danışman: Güray König)
• Faruk Cimbar. A semantic study on lexical borrowings through cultural interactions between English and Turkish. (Danışman: Ünsal Özünlü)
• Firdevs Özgür Karahan. A preliminary study on the  language  use  of  third generation immigrants Karachais. (Danışman: Güray König)
• Sevgi Öncel. Teaching technical translations to engineering students. (Danışman: Aysu Erden)
• Murat Özüdoğru. The teaching of L2 culture in EFL classrooms: Teachers! are we paying lip service to it? (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Rasime Vertaç. Language learning strategies of young learners. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)

Dissertations

• Mustafa Aksan. Argument  structure, morphology  and  some verbal derivations in Turkish. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Yeşim Aksan. Functional universals and some aspects of sentence topic in Turkish. (Danışman: Ayhan Sezer)
• Nalan Kızıltan. A linguistic study of the language in the Turkish children's literature. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Hüseyin Öz. The impact of computer assisted language learning on student achievement and attitudes in the context of teaching English as a foreign language: An experimental study on writing. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Hatice Beyhan Ünlü. A stylistic analysis of Haldun Taner's short stories. (Danışman: Ünsal Özünlü)

1996

MA thesis

• Dilek Hamamcıoğlu Joy. The value and influence of direct and coded feedback given on a surface level to the student's written work at intermediate level. (Danışman: Oya Külebi)

Dissertations

• Güler Acar. Turkish legal language (A sociolinguistic approach to the Turkish civil code). (Danışman: Güray König)
• Ayşen Cem. Universal  grammar in second language acquisition: Knowledge of English reflexives by Turkish learners. (Danışman: Ünsal Özünlü)
• Faruk Türker. Lexical transfer from Arabic into Turkish. (Danışman: Aysu Erden)

1997

MA thesis

• İsmail Eton. A   contrastive   study   of   English   and   Turkish interrogatives: A discourse perspective. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Yousef Ghasemi. A study on the Persian-originated borrowed words in modern Turkish in terms of morphology, phonology and semantics. (Danışman: Cengiz Tosun)
• Murat Hişmanoğlu. A contrastive  study on imperatives in Turkish and English: A formal and functional approach. (Danışman: Aysu Erden)
• Bahadır Hocamov. A contrastive study on noun phrases in Turkish and Uzbek. (Danışman: Oya Külebi)
• Serpil Şahin. A stylistic study of “Yeni Hayat”. (Danışman: Ünsal Özünlü)
• Emine Yarar. Macro perspectives in translation. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)

Dissertations

• Necdet Osam. The attitude of Turkish people towards the use of foreign words in a Turkish context. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)
• Ayla Tolon. A linguistic study of request in Turkish. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)

1998

MA thesis

• Murat Dağıstan. The place of learning and acquisition theories in the development of call applications in ELT. (Danışman: Aysu Erden)
• Esra Peker. Receiver's assesment of idiomatic structures in English magazines and newspapers. (Danışman: Ünsal Özünlü)
• Feraye Turan. The pragmatics of sarcastic irony in women's discourse. (Danışman: Ahmet Kocaman)

Dissertations

• Hakan Dilman. A linguistic analysis of modern Turkish and Azerbaijanian in  terms of mutual intelligibility with special emphasis of lexemes. Danışman: (Aysu Erden)
• Bekir Savaş. Derivations  from  modern  standard  Turkish:  The language used in TV and radio. (Danışman: Oya Külebi)
• Nilgün Şencan. Allophonic variations of consonant and vowel phonemes of Turkish segmental phonology. (Danışman: Mehmet Demirezen)

1999

MA thesis

• Suhan Akıncı. An analysis of complaints in terms of politeness in Turkish. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)
• Yeşim Çekiçel. Turkish vocabulary variants in relation to gender and age. (Danışman: Ceyhun Aksoy)
• Carinne Stanton. Ideology and gender in Bram Stoker's Dracula. (Danışman: Aysu Erden)

Dissertations

• Nazlı Baykal. The representation of Turkish females and males in reading materials and their use by Turkish primary school students. (Danışman: Oya Külebi)
• Nilüfer Demirkan Jones. The role of material evaluation in language teacher training with special reference to Turkey. (Danışman: Oya Külebi)
• Ümit Söylemez. Urbanisation and language shift:  A sociolinguistic analysis of the rural to urban transformation in the language of rural migrants, and the change strategies at work. (Danışman: Güray König)

2000

MA thesis

• Derya Duman. A linguistic study on Turkish personal names. (Danışman: Güray König)

Dissertations

• Doğan Bulut. A cross-cultural study on refusals in American English and Turkish. (Danışman: Güray König)
• Firdevs Karahan. Ethnolinguistic  vitality,  identity,  attitudes,  language choice in social network and codeswitching: The case of Bosnian people living in Sakarya. (Danışman: Güray König)
• Murat Özüdoğru. Therapeutic political discourse: An art of drawing a rosy picture in Turkish politics. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)

2001

MA thesis

• Aslı Gülsüm Açan. Computer mediated communication and community: A linguistic study on Turkish language used in internet relay chat (IRC) communication. (Danışman: Güray König)
• Ayşe Zeynep Açan. A study on sign languages and Turkish sign language. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)
• Ömer Seyfi Durhan. A linguistic study on the language use and the jargon of the Turkish military academic cadets. (Danışman: Güray König)

Dissertations

• Ayşe Şirin Okyanuz Yener. The  linguistic  analysis  of  poetry  for  translation purposes: Orhan Veli Kanık's “Garip” poems and their translations into English. (Danışman: Aysu Erden)

2002

Dissertations

• C. Evren Alpaslan. Pragmatic annotations for spoken language: A corpus based approach. (Danışman: Güray König)
• Nuray Alagözlü Kıymazarslan. Code-switching   patterns   and   underlying   socio- psychological   configurations   in   Kabardian   speech community: The probable effects of urbanization. (Danışman: Güray König)
• Nabi Yalçın. Analysis of the correlations between thematic roles and grammatical relations in Turkish sentences. (Danışman: Güray König)
• Emine Yarar. The official  language  of  Turkish:  A  formal  and functional approach. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)

2003

MA thesis

• Tülin Bozkurt. An analysis of language and ideology in three different Turkish women's magazines. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)
• Barbaros Dağdeviren. A linguistic account on form, function and meaning of primary interjections in Turkish in informal discourse. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)
• Canan İpek. A preliminary study on syntax and semantics of Turkish focus particles. (Danışman: Aysu Erden)
• Yüsra Kesici. A study of grammar in the interlanguage of Turkish learners of English on the basis of an analysis of their intralingual grammar errors. (Danışman: Güray König)
• Sanem Vanlı. Analysing the language of software sections in Turkish computer magazines. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)

2004

Dissertations

• Tuğba Çeliktaş. A critical discourse stylistic study of the selected short stories of Sabahattin Ali. (Danışman: Mine İşgüven)
• Yeşim Dinçkan. The linguistic analysis of “t” and “v” forms: Describing the  systemacity  of  the  interpretations  of  the translators in translating address terms from English into Turkish. (Danışman: Güray König)

2005

MA thesis

• İlkay Baykara. The use of borrowed words from the Greek cypriot dialect by Turkish cypriots. (Danışman: Güray König)
• Setenay Boran. An application of lexical aspect and discourse hypotheses: An analysis of the distribution of lexical aspect in the narratives of Turkish learners of English. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)
• Dilek Camadan. A comparative analysis of descriptive and expository discourse development of four and six year-old Turkish speaking preschool children. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)
• Yeliz Demir. A historical analysis of the language used in Turkish TV commercials. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)
• Özlem Vural. Phonological variation in informal Turkish. (Danışman: C. Evren Alpaslan)
• Nihal Yetkin. Analysing the discourse of political criticism in Turkish parliament: Linguistic reflections of prejudice and derogation. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)

2006

MA thesis

• Duygu Aydın. A study on a monolingual Turkish dictionary design for children with special emphasis on first and second year primary school children. (Danışman: C. Evren Alpaslan)
• Sinan Çakır. The accessibility of universal grammar in the acquisition of constituent ordem parameter by the native speakers of Turkish who are  acquiring English as a second language. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)
• Emel Kökpınar. An analysis of Turkish television advertisements at the linguistic and semiological  interface:  Culture  based representations. (Danışman: Güray König)

Dissertations

• Zeynep Doyuran. A comparative analysis of lecture register in Turkish universities  with  Turkish and English media of instruction from a functional viewpoint. (Danışman: Güray König)
• Derya Duman. Discursive construction of female image in Turkish women's  magazines: A socio-historical  approach  to critical discourse analysis. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)

2007

MA thesis

• Fazıla Derya Agiş. A comparative  cognitive  pragmatic  approach  to  the judeo-Spanish and Turkish proverbs and idioms that express emotions. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)
• Taylan Akal. A psycholinguistic approach to wh-complement clauses in Turkish. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)

Dissertations

• Ayşe Zeynep Açan. A linguistic analysis on basic sentence types in Turkish sign-language  (TID) with reference to non-manual activity. (Danışman: Güray König)
• Suhan Oktay. A sociolinguistic analysis of the personal narratives of Turkish children. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)
• Serpil Şahin. Intercultural communicative competence: The case of Turkish  learners coming from different languages, ethnic backgrounds and nationalities. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)

2008

MA thesis

• Elif Başıbüyük. Role of proposition in comprehension and memory for Turkish language. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)
• Fulya Ger. A stylistic analysis of Perihan Mağden's “İki Genç Kızın Romanı” in the context of linguistic deviations. (Danışman: C. Evren Alpaslan)
• Jülide Ahu Tutar. From language to ideology: A critical linguistic study on pedagogical materials used in Turkish schools in 1970's and 2000’s. (Danışman: Güray König)

Dissertations

• Aslı Gülsüm Açan. Agramatism in Turkish Broca's aphasic patients: A descriptive case study. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)
• Aslı Altan. The influence of vowel harmony on Turkish native speakers learning an artificial language system. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)

2009

MA thesis

• Melike Baş. Gender-preferential language use in the writing style of teenagers. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)
• Esra Öçal. The acquisition of principle of the Binding Theory by Turkish speaking preschool children. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)
• Aydoğan Yanılmaz. An investigation into the lexical and syntactic properties of negative polarity items in Turkish. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)

Dissertations

• Mine Çankaya. Linguistic and semiotic representations of gender in Turkish TV commercials. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)

2010

MA thesis

• Gülin Dağdeviren. Acquisition of the English article system by speakers of Turkish in the EFL setting. (Danışman: Güray König)

2012

MA Thesis

• Hilal Ergül. Humor in Hababam Sınıfı: A descriptive study. (Danışman: C. Evren Alpaslan)
• Metin Özdemir. Verbal humor processing in Turkish: An eye tracking study on the influence of set effects and the reading patterns in jokes. (Danışman: Zeynep Doyuran)
• Aykut Sığın. A genre analytic study of the game review sections of video game magazines. (Danışman: C. Evren Alpaslan)
• Cengiz Turan. Degree of access to universal grammar/transfer from L1 in the learning of relative clauses by Turkish learners of English. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)
• Emre Yağlı. An optimality theoretic analysis of focus in Turkish. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)

2013

MA thesis

• Aslıhan Koçak. A comparative register analysis of the language of cooking used in Turkish recipes. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)

2014

MA thesis

• Olcay Türk. An analysis of motion event components and accompanying gestures in Turkish narratives in terms of sentential focus position. (Danışman: Zeynep Doyuran)

Dissertations

• Taylan Akal. Processing of Turkish complex sentences with Wh-phrases. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)
• Yeliz Demir. Characterizing multi-participant tv debate as an argumentative activity type: A pragma-dialectical analysis of the argumentative discourse in Siyaset Meydani. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)
• Gülin Dağdeviren Kırmızı. Emotional and functional attitudes of native speakers towards Gagauz as an endangered language. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)
• Emel Kökpınar Kaya. An Analysis on Conversational Narratives in Turkish. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)

2015

MA thesis

• Ruhan Güçlü. A linguistic study on word association behavior of Turkish speaking children in urban and rural settings: A socio-cognitive perspective. (Danışman: Zeynep Açan Aydın)
• Abdullah Topraksoy. A linguistic study on the system of personal name signs in TİD. (Danışman: Zeynep Açan Aydın)

2016

MA thesis

• Ali Caner Alkan. Fragmented concepts, mind style and cultural embodiment in song lyrics: A case of tori amos. (Danışman: Zeynep Doyuran)

Dissertations

• Shahrooz Pourhossein. Animal metaphors in Persian and Turkish proverbs: A cognitive linguistic study. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)

2017

MA thesis

• Esra Küçüksakarya. A psycholinguistic study on the pronoun comprehension and processing of Turkish alzheimer's patients. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)
• Arif Yıldızlı. Pragmatic and conversational functions of tag questions in Turkish: comparison between natural speech and classroom setting. (Danışman: Zeynep Doyuran)

Dissertations

• Ayşe Dilek Demirtaş. Evaluation and construction of political reality in the speeches of Turkish political party leaders: 'Judgement' and 'engagement' analysis. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)
• Gökçen Hastürkoğlu. A cognitive study on the comparison of basic colour terms in Turkish and English idioms. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)

2018

Dissertations

• Hakan Cangır. Investigating the relationship between L1 and L2 collocational processing in the bilingual mental lexicon. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)
• Cengiz Turan. An eye-tracking investigation of attachment preferences to relative clauses in Turkish. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)
• Emre Yağlı. Indexing social meaning: Sociophonetic variables and listener perceptions of Turkish. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)

2019

MA thesis

• Firdevs Beste Kaptanoğlu. A structural and stylistic analysis of Turkish proverbs. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)
• Aizada Saparbaeva. Intergenerational analysis of Kyrgyz and Russian languages in the context of post-Soviet revitalization policy. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)
• Buse Şen. An analysis of Turkish singular pronouns based on Accessibility Theory. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)

Dissertations

• Cihan Alan. Thematic and discursive construction of homosexual movement in Turkey through Kaos GL magazine. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)
• Navid Mohammadpour Talaei. Codeswitching between Azeri and Persian: Sociolinguistic and structural aspects. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)

2020

MA thesis

• Göktuğ Börtlü. The vowel triangle of Turkish and phonological processes of laxing and fronting in Turkish. (Danışman: Zeynep Doyuran)

2021

MA thesis

• Ahmet Bora Dindar. Critical discourse analysis of Yaşar Kemal's İnce Memed I: A textual and intertextual perspective. (Danışman: Zeynep Doyuran)
• Esin Özge Esen. Apologizing in Turkish and Korean: A Cross-cultural Study. (Danışman: Zeynep Doyuran)
• Aybüke Uzunca. Animacy effect on Turkish relative clause production among young adult native speakers of Turkish. (Danışman: Taylan Akal)
• Çiğdem Yalavaç. Boosting and hedging in Turkish research articles. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)
• Nihansu Yurtseven Akış. Plant-themed metaphors in Turkish proverbs: A cognitive approach. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)

Dissertations

• Oktay Çınar. The acquisition of null and overt subjects in L2 Turkish at syntax discourse interface across different languages. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)
• Nurbanu Korkmaz. Figurative language competence of Turkish young adults with Down syndrome: An analysis of idiom comprehension and interpretation. (Danışman: Nalan Büyükkantarcıoğlu)

2022

MA thesis

• Ali Aydoğan. Reference tracking in children’s story books in Turkish. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)
• Zahide Kübra Ayanoğlu. Cumulative and collective readings in the sentences containing plural ambiguity in Turkish: A priming study. (Danışman: Taylan Akal)

Dissertations

• Ruhan Güçlü. A diachronic and gender-based analysis of Turkish MA thesis: The use of metadiscourse markers. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)
• Engin Evrim Önem. Processing of preverbal scrambling in Turkish. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)
• Abdullah Topraksoy. Motion predicates in Turkish: A morpho-syntactic treatment. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)

2023

MA thesis

• Sena Gizem Yüksel. Turkish verbal irony comprehension in children aged 5 and 6 years. (Danışman: Emine Yarar)

Dissertations

• Shahla Morsali. A critical discourse analysis of gender identity in Turkish newspapers. (Danışman: Işıl Özyıldırım)