İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü / Department of English Language and Literature
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Publication Metadata only A Note on the Relation between Evidentiality and Free Choice(2006) Şener, Nilüfer; 112147Publication Metadata only A WE-based English Communication Skills Course at a Turkish University(Multilingual Matters, 2012) Bayyurt, Yasemin; ALTINMAKAS, DERYA; 10939; 107385Publication Metadata only A Will of Its Own The Body Image in Hamlet(2004) Seval, Ayşem; 107616Publication Metadata only ‘Adaptation as Appropriation: James Whale’s Frankenstein, 1931’(2010) Ceylan, Özlem Gülgün; 107801Publication Metadata only All That Money Can Buy: Materialism in Bowen’s ’The Evil That Men Do –’(2016) Erdurucan, Büşra; 245880Publication Open Access An Evaluation of Liminality in Nadine Gordimer's July's People(2020-03) KABAK, MURATSet during a civil war in the apartheid South Africa, Nadine Gordimer's July's People is centred around the relationship between the Smales family and their former servant July. As the communal ties disintegrate in the novel, three objects play a vital role in our understanding of the characters. For the purposes of this study, these symbols not only help us to reveal the nature of spatial-temporal dislocation but also reveal Gordimer's commentary on the apartheid South Africa. This study aims to contribute the existing scholarship by focusing on the liminal/in-between experience in July's People through analyzing the novel's preoccupation with subject-object relationship.Publication Metadata only An exploratory study on factors influencing undergraduate students’ academic writing practices in Turkey(2019-01) Bayyurt, Yasemin; ALTINMAKAS, DERYA; 107385; 10939In EAP contexts, attaining a desired level of competence and fluency in academic writing is important for students majoring in English-medium undergraduate programs because their academic achievements are determined by the texts they produce in English. Undergraduate students in Turkey are observed to experience difficulties with academic writing as they try to accommodate their existing writing knowledge to the requirements of the new discipline-specific writing and learning situation of tertiary level education. Placing the students at the core of inquiry, the study explored factors influencing students' academic writing practices in English. The participants of the study were nineteen English major undergraduate students studying in Istanbul. The main data were obtained from background questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, document analysis, and were qualitatively analysed. The findings revealed that undergraduate writing is influenced by an array of interrelating educational and contextual factors: (1) the amount and nature of L1 and L2 pre-university writing instruction and experience, (2) students’ perceptions about academic writing and disciplinary-specific text genres, (3) prolonged engagement with the academic context and discourse, and (4) expectations of faculty members. The insights gained from the study provide important implications for reconceptualization of writing instruction in Turkey.Publication Embargo Anatomy of Discourses: Body Politics in Andahazi’s The Anatomist(2017) Seval, Ayşem; 107616History of medicine seems to be a journey deep into the body and its diseases. This journey is not determined solely by disinterested scientific curiosity; it was and still is surrounded by a web of cultural, political, economic and religious agendas. Accordingly, the first part of the essay will map out the journey into the body and point out how the objectivity of scientific approaches that we today take for granted is a myth constructed around the eighteenth century, and how the medicalised body is never devoid of cultural baggage. With the aim to illustrate how the medical discourses depend on other discourses to perpetuate themselves as well as undermine the authority of those they depend upon, the second part of this essay will analyse Federico Andahazi’s The Anatomist, which employs a wide range of Renaissance discourses to parody religious, legal, scientific and sexual ‘grand narratives.’Publication Metadata only Applying WE EIL based English language instruction in a university English course at a foundation university in Turkey(2010) Bayyurt Kerestecioğlu, Yasemin; ALTINMAKAS, DERYA; 10939; 107385Publication Metadata only Appropriateness of Global Textbooks for Local Contexts: Teachers' Perceptions(2006) ALTINMAKAS, DERYA; 107385Publication Metadata only Bone and Flesh, Death and Life: Representing the Human Body in Anil's Ghost(2019-04) TURAN, AYŞEGÜL; 273470Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost portrays the events evolving around Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist who, after living in England and the US for fifteen years, returns to her homeland Sri Lanka as part of an international human rights group to help with the investigation of mass murders. Anil and Sarath, a local archaeologist, are to identify the victims of unknown extrajudicial executions, which proves difficult and dangerous in the volatile and violent atmosphere of Sri Lanka as represented by the discovery of a recently buried skeleton in an ancient burial site controlled by the army. In this paper, I will focus on the depictions of the body, specifically those of skeletons and bones, to examine the novel’s metonymic representation of the individual and collective memory. As the violence of civil war becomes etched onto human bodies, bones start to serve as a repository of cultural memory after death. In the novel, “Sailor,” the recently buried skeleton, stands for all those bodies that have disappeared under not-so-mysterious circumstances. In other words, the attempt to give the Sailor a name and a face becomes emblematic of the desire to acknowledge the loss and suffering as well as honoring the dead. I contend that in the novel, the conscious effort to strip the bodies of their identity and to anonymize them does not lead to their ultimate erasure from history; on the contrary they, through the lifeless bones, draw attention to this attempt and hence become an essential part of cultural memory.Publication Metadata only Competing for Dominance: Power Dynamics in Ralph de Boissière’s Rum and Coca Cola(2014) TURAN, AYŞEGÜL; 273470Publication Metadata only Conceptual Transition from EFL to ELF Business Professionals in Turkey(2013) Çeçen Besimoğlu, Sevdeğer; Serdar Tülüce, Hande; Yalçın, Serdar; ALTINMAKAS, DERYA; 29634; 107385; 203892; 184237Publication Metadata only Conceptual Transition from English as a Foreign Language to BELF(2019-01) Çeçen, Sevdeğer; Serdar Tülüce, Hande; Yalçın, Şebnem; ALTINMAKAS, DERYA; 107385; 29634; 203892; 184237Business professionals, who use English language in their daily interactions at global corporate companies in Turkey, have been educated within the paradigm of teaching and learning of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). However, as most of their interactions in business world take place with speakers of other languages in multilingual/cultural settings, these professionals' use of English language as Lingua Franca (ELF) may commence to function in different domains with different purposes and communicative outcomes within the paradigm of BELF. However, to our best knowledge, how business professionals in Turkey use and conceptualize English language in their daily business domains and how they position themselves as users of English and BELF have not been investigated. With this aim in mind, we conducted a research with 19 business professionals working at global companies in Istanbul. The data was collected through a survey administered with 19 business professionals and semi-structured interviews with five informants working in top positions at those companies which serve global customers. The findings of the study revealed that business professionals in Turkey are in a state of flux between the two paradigms - i.e., EFL and ELF toward the construction of BELF because EFL and ELF co-exist in their minds.Publication Metadata only Publication Metadata only Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational: Literature and the New Europe(Brill Rodopi, 2015) TURAN, AYŞEGÜL; 273470Publication Open Access Creating the Nation on the Page: The Imagined Nationhood in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura(Namık Kemal Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Dekanlığı, 2021) TURAN, AYŞEGÜLRaja Rao’s Kanthapura (1938) focuses on the story of how Gandhian ideology reachesthe village of Kanthapura and changes the villagers’ lives drastically. Rao’s portrayalof national identity, by putting the village in the center, relies heavily on the use ofcenturies-old Indian culture and traditions in order to create a sense of shared historyand collective sense of belonging against British colonialism. In the novel, thevillagers re-discover their shared cultural and religious past in their attempt to find thestrength to fight against colonial domination and envision a new society. Thus, thenarrative’s imagining of the future society follows a past-oriented trajectory, namelycombining the past, present and future in the microcosmos of the village. I contendthat the temporal origin of the projected nationhood determines the limitations andpossibilities for the formation of the idea of nation and the future society.Publication Metadata only Darts of Satan:’ Theatre as Evil in Tudor and Stuart England(2003) Seval, Ayşem; 107616Publication Metadata only Defining and Defying Irishness in J.G. Farrell’s Troubles(2017) TURAN, AYŞEGÜL; 273470Publication Metadata only Domain Vagueness and the Epistemic Background(Chicago Linguistic Society Publications, 2007) Şener, Nilüfer; 112147This paper shows that evidentials provide convenient environments for the manifestation of the domain vagueness requirement on Free Choice items such as herhangi bir in Turkish. In English, certain modals restrict the use of Free Choice any. Dayal (1998) suggests that this restriction is due to the domain vagueness requirement on this item. I demonstrate that in Turkish, speakers epistemic background regulates the legitimacy of Free Choice herhangi bir implying that vagueness is a basic property of this item. I propose that the interesting interaction of evidentials with Free Choice item herhangi bir can be accounted for by assuming Kratzer's (1987) theory of modal interpretation, Izvorski's (1997) account for evidentials and Dayal's (1998) proposal on Free Choice any.