{"id":35,"date":"2016-01-22T16:22:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hisik\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:51:40","slug":"academic-interests-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hisik\/academic-interests-education\/","title":{"rendered":"ACADEMIC INTERESTS\/EDUCATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style23\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>MAIN ACADEMIC INTERESTS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>(Socio)Pragmatics<\/li>\n<li>Critical Discourse Analysis: Discursive Construction and Representations of Gender; Political Discourse and conceptual metaphors; Discourses of discrimination<\/li>\n<li>Impoliteness <span lang=\"TR\">&amp; Politeness Theory (and the Rapport Management model \u2013esp. application to Turkish data); the interplay of humour, emotion work and impoliteness<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Online discourses and social media discourse (esp. Twitter and FB)<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Corpus Linguistics: Developing Corpora, Computer assisted\u00a0transcription, annotation and analysis<span lang=\"TR\">; Standardization in Spoken and Written Corpora<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Classroom\u00a0Discourse<span lang=\"TR\">:<\/span><span lang=\"TR\"> Co-construction and negotiation of identities and positioning in interaction;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>English Medium Instruction (<a href=\"https:\/\/emi.metu.edu.tr\/\">EMI<\/a>) and English Taught Programs in Higher Education Institutions and\u00a0Internationalisation<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Speech acts, implicatures and interactional principles in face to face communication and\u00a0computer mediated communication (CMC)Cross-cultural and Intercultural communication:\u00a0<span lang=\"TR\">Developing Intercultural Competence,\u00a0<\/span>Acquisition of Pragmatic and Sociolinguistic competence<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The teaching of Turkish <span lang=\"TR\">(TFL) <\/span>and English as a Foreign Language<\/li>\n<li>Academic Governance, Leadership and Internationalisation; Discourses of Leadership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"style15\" align=\"justify\"><strong><u>POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">During the 2008-2009 academic year, I worked as a visiting academic at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/\">University of Warwick<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/soc\/al\/\">Center for Applied Linguistics<\/a>\u00a0where I was mainly involved in:<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<ul>\n<li>Planning the development of a Turkish Spoken Corpus parallel to British Corpora (i.e.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/soc\/al\/research\/collect\/base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BASE -British Academic Spoken English Corpus<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Pragmatics research methodology: (Im)politeness evaluation narratives and cultural (im)politeness key lexemes as means of politeness2 theory building<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">EDUCATION:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"height: 887px\" width=\"701\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"85\">2003-2008<\/td>\n<td width=\"391\"><strong><u>PhD<\/u><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> in Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University,\u00a0Ankara, Turkey (GPA: 4.00)Dissertation Title:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/etd.lib.metu.edu.tr\/upload\/3\/12609779\/index.pdf\">METAPRAGMATICS OF (IM)POLITENESS IN TURKISH:\u00a0AN EXPLORATORY EMIC INVESTIGATION<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"85\">2000-2003<\/td>\n<td width=\"391\"><strong>M.A.<\/strong> in ELT, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (GPA: 4.00)Thesis Title:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/etd.lib.metu.edu.tr\/upload\/121819\/index.pdf\"><strong>An Investigation on Customer Interactional Principles and Face-Threatening Speech Act Performance\u00a0in Service Encounters: The Case of Turkish and English<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"85\">1997 &#8211; 2000<\/td>\n<td width=\"391\"><strong>B.A<\/strong> degree in ELT (Graduated as Salutatorian,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elt.hacettepe.edu.tr\/\">Hacettepe University, English Language Teaching,\u00a0<\/a>Ankara, Turkey.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"85\">1996 &#8211; 1997<\/td>\n<td width=\"391\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.istanbul.edu.tr\/hay\/bolumler\/ydeb\/ingilizce\/ing.htm\">\u0130stanbul University, English Language Teaching,<\/a> \u0130stanbul, Turkey.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"85\">1995 &#8211; 1996<\/td>\n<td width=\"391\"><a href=\"http:\/\/besiktasataturkal.meb.k12.tr\/\">Be\u015fikta\u015f Anatolian High School<\/a>, \u0130stanbul, Turkey (<strong>High School<\/strong> Diploma,1996)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"85\">1992 &#8211; 1995<\/td>\n<td width=\"391\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aaal.meb.k12.tr\/\"><u>Atat\u00fcrk Anatolian High School<\/u><\/a>,\u00a0Ankara, Turkey (<strong>Secondary School<\/strong> Diploma, 1993)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"85\">1990 &#8211; 1992<\/td>\n<td width=\"391\">A\u011fr\u0131 Anatolian High School,\u00a0A\u011fr\u0131, Turkey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"85\">1988 &#8211; 1990<\/td>\n<td width=\"391\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meadlands.richmond.sch.uk\/\">Meadlands Primary School<\/a>,\u00a0London, England (<strong>Primary School<\/strong> Equivalence, 1990)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"85\">1987 &#8211; 1988<\/td>\n<td width=\"391\">Rauf Orbay Primary School,\u00a0Ankara, Turkey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"85\">1986 &#8211; 1987<\/td>\n<td width=\"391\">Salih Alptekin Primary School,\u00a0Ankara, Turkey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"85\">1985 &#8211; 1986<\/td>\n<td width=\"391\"><a href=\"http:\/\/smi.hampton.k12.va.us\/\">Captain John Smith Elementary School,<\/a>\u00a0Virginia, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAIN ACADEMIC INTERESTS: (Socio)Pragmatics Critical Discourse Analysis: Discursive Construction and Representations of Gender; Political Discourse and conceptual metaphors; Discourses of discrimination Impoliteness &amp; Politeness Theory (and the Rapport Management model \u2013esp. application to Turkish data); the interplay of humour, emotion work and impoliteness Online discourses and social media discourse (esp. Twitter and FB) Corpus Linguistics: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1370,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hisik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hisik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hisik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hisik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hisik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hisik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/hisik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}