Discourse and Corpus Research Group (DISCORE)
DISCORE is an interdisciplinary research group based in the Department of FLE at METU that I run with a number of my former and current graduate students. It aims to bring together researchers who are interested in issues at the intersection of language, discourse, spoken and written interaction and corpus research.
Please visit our website for further information and upcoming events.
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COMPLETED THESES & DISSERTATIONS UNDER MY SUPERVISION (19)
2023 Mısır, Hulya
Vlog as a Multimodal Translanguaging Space: Insights From A Turkish Social Media Influencer Corpus (SMIC) (METU, PhD Dissertation)
2023 Bozbıyık, Merve
Displays of Co-constructed Content Knowledge Using Translanguaging in EMI University Classrooms (co-advisor, main advisor: Dr. Ufuk Balaman, Hacettepe University, PhD Dissertation)
2023 Tanrıverdi-Köksal, Fatma
Becoming an Academic Researcher Teacher: A Narrative Inquiry into EFL Instructors’ Multiple Role Transitions During Their PhD Journey (METU, PhD Dissertation)
2022 Efeoğlu-Özcan, Esranur
The Corpus of Turkish Youth Language (COTY): The compilation and interactional dynamics of a spoken corpus (METU, PhD Dissertation)
2022 Karabacak, Galip
A Metapragmatic Account of Madilik, Madikoli and Gullüm in Turkish Queer Communication (METU, MA Thesis)
2021 Dinç-Altun, Nilay
“I need you to send me the homework please”: An Analysis of Adult ESL Learners’ Requestive Emails to Faculty (METU, MA Thesis)
2021 Aytaç-Demirçivi, Kadriye
Backchannels in Spoken Turkish (METU, PhD Dissertation)
2017 Dörtkulak, Funda
Compliments and Compliment Responses in Turkish and American English: A Contrastive Pragmatics Study of a Facebook Corpus (METU, PhD Dissertation)
2016 Okur, Seda
Representation of European identity in multiparty incoming and outgoing Erasmus students’ discourses (METU, M.A Thesis)
2015 Bal, Betül
Book Review Genre in Academic Writing: A Comparative Study of English and Turkish Across Ten Disciplines (METU, PhD Dissertation)
2015 Efeoğlu, Esranur
The metaphorical (re)construction of Turkey in political discourse: a corpus-driven critical metaphor analysis (METU, M.A Thesis)
2015 Demir, Melike
A case study on interactional co-construction of identities in an EFL classroom (METU, M.A Thesis)
2015 Özbakış, Özlem
The dynamic nature of positional identities in an EFL classroom: a Conversation Analysis-led case study (METU, M.A Thesis)
2015 Baştürk, Çağla
Humor and Impoliteness Interaction in Improvised TV Discourse (METU, M.A Thesis)
2014 Erdoğan, Yasemin
Discursive Construction and Linguistic Representations of Gender in Political Discourses: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Governmental Public Addresses in Turkey (METU, M.A Thesis)
2014 Aytaç, Kadriye
A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of Anyway in English and Her/Neyse in Turkish (METU, M.A Thesis)
2013 Çağlar, Elif
A Qualitative Study of Peer Observation of Teaching as a Job-Embedded Professional Development Tool (METU, M.A Thesis)
2012 Iriskulova, Alena
The Investigation of the cultural presence in Spot on 8 ELT textbook published in Turkey : teachers’ and students’ expectations versus real cultural load of the textbook (METU, M.A Thesis)
2012 Çelebi, Hatice
Extracting and analyzing impoliteness in corpora: a study based on British national corpus and Turkish spoken corpus (METU, PhD Dissertation, co-advised with Prof. Şükriye Ruhi)
CURRENT PhD STUDENTS (13):
Özlem Özbakış
Yasemin Erdoğan-Öztürk
Betül Çimenli
Fatma Ege
Merve Çoban Hırçın (co-advising with Dr. Ufuk Balaman, HU)
Meltem Turan Eroğlu (co-advising with Dr. Betul Bal Gezegin, OMU)
Pınar Turan
Melike Demir-Bektaş
Merve Nur Yüce
İlayda Şahin
Buse Tatar
Ali Anaç
Gamze Kapucu
CURRENT MA STUDENTS (1):
Zeynep Arısoy
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*Please contact me via email if you would like to discuss working with me for graduate research or as a visiting researcher.