Browsing by Author "Kirmizi, Gulin Dagdeviren"

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Being a Young Speaker of the Gagauz Language in Post-Soviet Context
(2023) Inan, Kayhan; Kirmizi, Gulin Dagdeviren
The concept of identity assumes great importance in the context of endangered languages. In this study, the identity perceptions of Gagauz adolescents were investigated using Bucholtz and Hall's (2005) sociocultural linguistic approach. To this end, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with three adolescent Gagauz speakers who had distinctive profiles in terms of Gagauz identity. Bucholtz and Hall's indexicality principle, specifically the use of WE- and THEY- references, was taken into consideration in the analysis of interviews held with young Gagauz speakers. In the semistructured interviews, the participants responded to specific questions that probed self-identification, the relationship between the Gagauz language and ethnicity, the future of Gagauz people and Gagauz language, and perceived linguistic (in)security when speaking Gagauz and Russian languages, as well as language choice at school. The findings show that the participants have different profiles and use various indexical references and linguistic strategies regarding group membership. The influence of Russia and the Russian language on Gagauz identity is salient in social life, bureaucracy, and politics. As a result, the strong identification with ethnic identity and perception of Gagauz identity does not help maintain the Gagauz language in Gagauzia.
Emotional and Functional Speaker Attitudes towards Gagauz as an Endangered Language
(2020) Kirmizi, Gulin Dagdeviren
The Gagauz language spoken in the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia in Moldova is one of the endangered languages. This article aims to investigate the Gagauz speakers' attitudes towards the Gagauz, Russian and Moldovan languages. The results were analyzed on the basis of age, gender and the place of residence. It is seen that Gagauz speakers who are younger and living in cities have more positive functional attitudes towards the Russian language. On the other hand, the participants who are older and reside in villages have more positive emotional attitudes towards the Gagauz language.
Locative verbs in Turkish: A psycholinguistic analysis
(2019) Kirmizi, Gulin Dagdeviren; Kirkci, Bilal
The aim of this study was to investigate whether native Turkish speakers find alternations in locative verbs acceptable and whether ground-frame constructions in Turkish are perceived as less acceptable, as claimed by Kim & Landau & Phillips (1999). As earlier studies in the relevant literature have predominantly investigated English and typologically-related languages, and since the claims concerning Turkish locative verbs have not been experimentally tested, the present study investigates the processing of Turkish locative verbs by means of an acceptability judgment task and a self-paced reading task. The results show that the majority of Turkish locative verbs tested are figure-oriented non-alternating verbs, and that ground-oriented non-alternating locative verbs and alternating locative verbs also exist in Turkish. These findings run counter to earlier claims that ground-oriented non-alternating locative verbs do not exist in Turkish.
Nominal Stance in Cross-Disciplinary Academic Writing of Ll and L2 Speakers in Noun
(2022) Kirmizi, Ozkan; Kirmizi, Gulin Dagdeviren
Background. Literature indicates that in academic writing, authors are expected to demonstrate a noticeable stance so that they can make their meaning clear. Therefore, differences between native and non-native writers along with cross-disciplinary academic writing assume great significance.Purpose. The interactional, dialogic, and reflective nature of academic writing requires writers to utilize stance-establishing tools in their writing, the most prominent ones being stance nouns. In addition, the that-clause construction plays a vital role in conveying the author's stance. Studies that compare L1 Turkish writers of English and L1 English writers regarding academic writing are rather scarce. As such, the present paper aims to analyze L1 Turkish writers of English and L1 English writers in eight disciplines from natural and social sciences in terms of the use of stance nouns in that-clause constructions.Methods. The study employs Jiang and Hyland's (2016) functional classification model in exploring the nominal stance in cross-disciplinary writing of L1 Turkish writers of English and L1 English writers. To this end, journals with high impact in eight disciplines from social and natural sciences were scanned and a total of 320 articles were included in the corpus. The social sciences included in the present study cover applied linguistics, history, psychology, and sociology while the natural sciences cover medicine, engineering, astronomy, and biology. In total, a corpus of 2.232.164 words was formed.Results and Implications. The study found significant differences not only in terms of natural and social sciences but also in terms of L1/L2 distinction. In addition, a secondary purpose of the study was to see whether writers in social and natural sciences differed in terms of empiricist and interpretive rationality. The results indicated that writers in social sciences tended to use more status and cognition nouns, indicating that they tend to be more interpretive. With significant differences between Turkish and English writers from a cross-disciplinary perspective, the present study offers important insights into how writers weave their stance in academic writing. Moreover, the present study also confirmed that writers in social sciences, whether L1 or L2, tend to use more stance nouns compared with writers in natural sciences.