SocialVR, as experienced in immersive audiovisual environments, is a symmetrical communication medium that allows for both verbal interaction, and limited physical interaction through first-person avatars. Through a ...

This thesis analyzes the discourse of second generation Cretan immigrants whose forefathers were forcibly relocated to Cunda via the population exchange between Greece and the Republic of Turkey in 1924. The aim is to ...

Studies of institutions have shown that legitimacy and credibility are important aspects of institutional identity, particularly in the case of NGO. Given that identity is established and reflected largely through linguistic ...

A “fan” can be anyone, from a regular viewer of a TV show, to a fan fiction writer, a collector, or an obsessive consumer. “Fandom”, therefore, is a community of these myriad of fans with their myriad of ways to interact ...

In this study, the nature of linguistic (im)politeness is examined in Turkish Computer Mediated Communication (henceforth CMC) based on data collected at an internet discussion forum. The aim of my study is to investigate ...

Archeology and history, like all scientific disciplines, construct and communicate their scholarship through language. The discourses produced by these disciplines do not operate only within the boundaries of the academy, ...

Impersonal pronouns are pronouns without specific, identifiable real-world referents. It is established in the literature that they are used to convey generalizable claims while expressing a certain degree of subjectivity ...

This study primarily deals with the politics of mad identity, and specifically, it aims to explore the discursive construction of mahallenin delisi (the mad of the neighborhood), a disappearing public figure, as a social ...

Internet memes have been a considerable point of interest to their users ever since their widespread recognition on social media channels. These digital items often come in different shapes and formats, varying from ...