{"id":32,"date":"2016-01-22T16:17:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hisik\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:27:23","slug":"graduate-advising","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hisik\/graduate-advising\/","title":{"rendered":"RESEARCH ADVISING"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discourse and Corpus Research Group (DISCORE)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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DISCORE is an interdisciplinary research group based in the Department of FLE at METU that I run with a number of my current and former 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.<\/p>\n

Please visit our website<\/a> for further information and upcoming events.<\/p>\n

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COMPLETED THESES & DISSERTATIONS UNDER MY SUPERVISION (24)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

24. 2025 Erdo\u011fan-\u00d6zt\u00fcrk, Yasemin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contested Belongings: Identity Negotiations Among Multilingual Turkish Returnee Women in<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>a Digital Community <\/em>(METU, PhD Dissertation)<\/p>\n

23. 2025 \u00d6zbak\u0131\u015f, \u00d6zlem<\/strong><\/p>\n

Exploring Leadership Configurations in Decision-making Interaction in a Turkish Software Engineering Company: An Ethnomethodological Multimodal Conversation Analysis <\/em>(METU, PhD Dissertation)<\/p>\n

22. 2025 Ar\u0131soy, Zeynep<\/strong><\/p>\n

Media Representations <\/em>o<\/em>f Femicide <\/em>i<\/em>n The Guardian <\/em>a<\/em>nd Cumhuriyet Newspapers: A Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis <\/em>(METU, MA Thesis)<\/p>\n

21. 2025 \u00c7imenli Olcars, Bet\u00fcl<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Conversation Analytic Investigation of Resources \u00a0for Alignment and Affiliation in Topic Management During Video-Mediated Virtual Exchange<\/em> (METU, PhD Dissertation) (co-advisor: <\/em>Dr. Ufuk Balaman, TEDU)<\/em><\/p>\n

20. 2025 Turan Ero\u011flu, Meltem<\/strong><\/p>\n

Metadiscourse in EAP Classes: A Comparative Analysis of Teacher Discourse in Online and Face-to-Face Modes of Instruction<\/em> (METU, PhD Dissertation) (co-advisor: Dr. Betul Bal Gezegin, OMU)<\/em><\/p>\n

19. 2023\u00a0 M\u0131s\u0131r, Hulya<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vlog as a Multimodal Translanguaging Space: Insights From A Turkish Social Media Influencer Corpus (SMIC) <\/em>(METU, PhD Dissertation)<\/p>\n

18. 2023\u00a0 Bozb\u0131y\u0131k, Merve<\/strong><\/p>\n

Displays of Co-constructed Content Knowledge Using Translanguaging in EMI University Classrooms\u00a0 (co-advisor, main advisor: Dr. Ufuk Balaman, Hacettepe University, PhD Dissertation)<\/em><\/p>\n

17. 2023 \u00a0Tanr\u0131verdi-K\u00f6ksal, Fatma<\/strong><\/p>\n

Becoming an Academic Researcher Teacher (ART): A Narrative Inquiry into EFL Instructors\u2019 Multiple Role Transitions During Their PhD Journey<\/em> (METU, PhD Dissertation)<\/p>\n

16. 2022\u00a0 Efeo\u011flu-\u00d6zcan, Esranur<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Corpus of Turkish Youth Language (COTY): The compilation and interactional dynamics of a spoken corpus <\/em>(METU, PhD Dissertation)<\/p>\n

15. 2022\u00a0 Karabacak, Galip<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Metapragmatic Account of <\/em>Madilik, Madikoli and<\/em> Gull\u00fcm in Turkish Queer Communication <\/em>(METU, MA Thesis)<\/p>\n

14. 2021\u00a0 Din\u00e7-Altun, Nilay<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I need you to send me the homework please”: An Analysis of Adult ESL Learners’ Requestive Emails to Faculty \u00a0<\/em>(METU, MA Thesis)<\/p>\n

13. 2021\u00a0 Ayta\u00e7-Demir\u00e7ivi, Kadriye<\/strong><\/p>\n

Backchannels in Spoken Turkish \u00a0<\/em>(METU, PhD Dissertation)<\/p>\n

12. 2017\u00a0\u00a0D\u00f6rtkulak, Funda\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Compliments and Compliment Responses in Turkish and American English: A Contrastive Pragmatics Study of a Facebook Corpus\u00a0<\/em>(METU, PhD Dissertation)<\/p>\n

11. 2016 \u00a0Okur, Seda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Representation of European identity in multiparty incoming and outgoing Erasmus students\u2019 discourses<\/em>\u00a0(METU, M.A Thesis)<\/p>\n

10. 2015 \u00a0Bal, Bet\u00fcl<\/strong><\/p>\n

Book Review Genre in Academic Writing: A Comparative Study of English and Turkish Across Ten Disciplines<\/em> \u00a0(METU, PhD Dissertation)<\/p>\n

9. 2015 \u00a0Efeo\u011flu, Esranur<\/strong><\/p>\n

The metaphorical (re)construction of Turkey in political discourse: a corpus-driven critical metaphor analysis<\/em>\u00a0(METU, M.A Thesis)<\/p>\n

8. 2015 \u00a0Demir, Melike<\/strong><\/p>\n

A case study on interactional co-construction of identities in an EFL classroom<\/em>\u00a0(METU, M.A Thesis)<\/p>\n

7. 2015 \u00a0\u00d6zbak\u0131\u015f, \u00d6zlem<\/strong><\/p>\n

The dynamic nature of positional\u00a0identities\u00a0in an EFL classroom: a Conversation Analysis-led case study \u00a0(METU, M.A Thesis)<\/em><\/p>\n

6. 2015 \u00a0Ba\u015ft\u00fcrk (Karatepe), \u00c7a\u011fla<\/strong><\/p>\n

Humor and Impoliteness Interaction in Improvised TV Discourse<\/em>\u00a0(METU, M.A Thesis)<\/p>\n

5. 2014 \u00a0Erdo\u011fan, Yasemin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Discursive Construction and Linguistic Representations of Gender in Political Discourses: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Governmental Public Addresses in Turkey <\/em>(METU, M.A Thesis)<\/p>\n

4. 2014 \u00a0Ayta\u00e7, Kadriye<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of Anyway in English and Her\/Neyse in Turkish <\/em>(METU, M.A Thesis)<\/p>\n

3. 2013 \u00a0\u00c7a\u011flar, Elif<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Qualitative Study of Peer Observation of Teaching as a Job-Embedded Professional Development Tool<\/em> (METU, M.A Thesis)<\/p>\n

2. 2012 \u00a0Iriskulova, Alena<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/em> (METU, M.A Thesis)<\/p>\n

1. 2012 \u00a0\u00c7elebi, Hatice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Extracting and analyzing impoliteness in corpora: a study based on British national corpus and Turkish spoken corpus<\/em>\u00a0 (METU, PhD Dissertation, co-advised with Prof. \u015e\u00fckriye Ruhi)<\/p>\n

CURRENT PhD STUDENTS (10):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Fatma Ege Kad\u0131o\u011flu (Link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Merve \u00c7oban H\u0131r\u00e7\u0131n (co-advising with Dr. Ufuk Balaman, TEDU)<\/p>\n

P\u0131nar Turan (Link)<\/a><\/p>\n

Melike Demir-Bekta\u015f<\/p>\n

Merve Nur Y\u00fcce<\/p>\n

\u0130layda \u015eahin<\/p>\n

Buse Tatar<\/p>\n

Ali Ana\u00e7<\/p>\n

Gamze Kapucu<\/p>\n

Berkcan K\u00f6se<\/p>\n

CURRENT MA STUDENTS (1):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sezin Sevimli<\/p>\n

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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.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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