MAIN ACADEMIC INTERESTS:
- (Socio)Pragmatics
- Critical Discourse Analysis: Discursive Construction and Representations of Gender; Political Discourse and conceptual metaphors; Discourses of discrimination
- Impoliteness & Politeness Theory (and the Rapport Management model –esp. application to Turkish data); the interplay of humour, emotion work and impoliteness
- Online discourses and social media discourse (esp. Twitter and FB)
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Corpus Linguistics: Developing Corpora, Computer assisted transcription, annotation and analysis; Standardization in Spoken and Written Corpora
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Classroom Discourse: Co-construction and negotiation of identities and positioning in interaction
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Speech acts, implicatures and interactional principles in face to face communication and computer mediated communication (CMC)Cross-cultural and Intercultural communication: Developing Intercultural Competence, Acquisition of Pragmatic and Sociolinguistic competence
- The teaching of Turkish (TFL) and English as a Foreign Language
- Academic Governance, Leadership and Internationalisation; Discourse of Leadership
- English Medium Instruction (EMI) and English Taught Programs in Higher Education Institutions and Internationalisation
POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH:
During the 2008-2009 academic year, I worked as a visiting academic at the University of Warwick, Center for Applied Linguistics where I was mainly involved in:
- Planning the development of a Turkish Spoken Corpus parallel to British Corpora (i.e. BASE -British Academic Spoken English Corpus)
- Pragmatics research methodology: (Im)politeness evaluation narratives and cultural (im)politeness key lexemes as means of politeness2 theory building
EDUCATION:
| 2003-2008 | PhD in Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (GPA: 4.00)Dissertation Title: METAPRAGMATICS OF (IM)POLITENESS IN TURKISH: AN EXPLORATORY EMIC INVESTIGATION |
| 2000-2003 | M.A. in ELT, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (GPA: 4.00)Thesis Title: An Investigation on Customer Interactional Principles and Face-Threatening Speech Act Performance in Service Encounters: The Case of Turkish and English |
| 1997 – 2000 | B.A degree in ELT (Graduated as Salutatorian, Hacettepe University, English Language Teaching, Ankara, Turkey.) |
| 1996 – 1997 | İstanbul University, English Language Teaching, İstanbul, Turkey. |
| 1995 – 1996 | Beşiktaş Anatolian High School, İstanbul, Turkey (High School Diploma,1996) |
| 1992 – 1995 | Atatürk Anatolian High School, Ankara, Turkey (Secondary School Diploma, 1993) |
| 1990 – 1992 | Ağrı Anatolian High School, Ağrı, Turkey |
| 1988 – 1990 | Meadlands Primary School, London, England (Primary School Equivalence, 1990) |
| 1987 – 1988 | Rauf Orbay Primary School, Ankara, Turkey |
| 1986 – 1987 | Salih Alptekin Primary School, Ankara, Turkey |
| 1985 – 1986 | Captain John Smith Elementary School, Virginia, USA |