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DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 1, 2014

An article about characteristics of the language represented in works of fiction in English 1914-... more An article about characteristics of the language represented in works of fiction in English 1914-c. 200

Semiotica

This paper extends the fields of visual and object semiosis, style, and rhetoric by introducing t... more This paper extends the fields of visual and object semiosis, style, and rhetoric by introducing the concept of critical object images. It identifies five of their rhetorical functions in literature and demonstrates the semiotic and rhetorical specificity and force of literary object images. Inter-disciplinary concepts and theories used in the study are introduced before the concept is tested and developed through analyses of object images with critical roles in the Victorian scenes of Virginia Woolf’s novels. The inductive analyses trace the semiosis and stylistic affordances (meanings) of the selected critical object images, with reference to three categories of kitsch inauthenticity, and their formal and cultural contexts, noting the rhetorical function(s) they serve. Multimodal stylistics and the semiotics of visual images and of objects are used in these analyses, and the unique contribution of critical object images as rhetorical elements in literature is uncovered and explaine...

Cambrıdge Scholars Publishing, 2015

Eastern European Monographs ve Maria Curie Sklodowska University Press, 2012

Department of Foreign Language Education, METU, 2000

This is to certify that I have read this thesis and that in my opinion it is fully adequate, in s... more This is to certify that I have read this thesis and that in my opinion it is fully adequate, in scope and quality, as a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

This paper presents a quantitative analysis of an un-elicited corpus of English spelling errors f... more This paper presents a quantitative analysis of an un-elicited corpus of English spelling errors from Turkish learners. It focuses on the issues raised by an earlier corpus-based analysis of errors made by native speakers and on the theoretical significance of the findings of both these studies.A review of the theoretical background to spelling error analysis is followed by a quantitative analysis of spelling mistakes made by upper intermediate level Turkish learners of English. The results indicate that native and foreign writers share a number of cognitive and perceptual processes in the production of English spellings, notably those concerning a degree of independence of orthography from phonology, sensitivity to word length, and the relative perceptual salience of segmental positions within the word.

This appeared as Chapter 7 in Kazuo Ishiguro in a Global Context. Ashgate 2014

Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage presents essays by practition... more Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage presents essays by practitioners based in language museums around the world. Describing their history, mission, and modes of display, contributors demonstrate the important role intangible heritage can and should play in the museum. Arguing that languages are among our most precious forms of cultural heritage, the book also demonstrates that they are at risk of neglect, and endangerment from globalization and linguistic imperialism. Including case studies from across Europe, North America, Africa and Asia, this book documents the vital work being done by museums to help preserve languages and make them objects of broad public interest. Divided into three sections, contributions to the book focus on one of three types of museums: museums of individual languages, museums of language groups, both geographic and structural, or museums of writing. The volume presents practical information alongside theoretical discussions and state-of-the-art commentaries concerning the representation of languages and their cultural nature. Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage is the first volume to address the subject of language museums and, as such, should be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of museum and cultural heritage studies, applied linguistics, anthropology, tourism and public education.