Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • A Gender-based study of Nihal Yeğinobalı's pseudo-translation Genç Kızlar 
    Alt, Nil. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    In the first part of this study, the social and cultural reasons behind Nihal Yeğinobalı's novel Genç Kızlar being published as a pseudo-translation are explored based on the concept of gender. The ideas of the translation ...
  • The approach of the Turkish ministry of national education to translation in the teaching of literature 
    Ayan, Müge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1999., 1999.)
    Since translation is a mode of transfer with the help of which the works produced by other cultures are imported into one's home system, translated literature in a sense shapes the literary paradigm; this is why it has an ...
  • Visibility of translation through conflicting ideologies: the "Islamic" retranslations of "100 essential readings" 
    Baydan, Esra Birkan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This study has two purposes which are interrelated: 1) to highlight a case as an example of translation's role in culture planning struggles of opposing groups or competing ideologies; 2) to approach the issue of visibility ...
  • Questioning contemporary theoretical approaches to translation in terms of translation ethics 
    Işlak, Müge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study is intended to draw attention to the significance of the ethics of translation in the theoretical field of Translation Studies and to provide an account of the phenomena of ideological manipulation in translation ...
  • Dr. Abdullah Cevdet’s translations (1908-1910): The making of a Westernist and materialist “culture repertoire” in a “resistant” Ottoman context 
    Ayluçtarhan, Sevda. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This study aims to analyze Abdullah Cevdet’s translations published within the first three years (1908-1910) of the Second Constitutional period by taking “culture-planning” aspects of them as its focal point. The present ...
  • Greek fiction translated into Turkish: 1990-2006 
    Kayadelen, Ekaterini. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    The present study that covers the period of seventeen years, from 1990 until the end of 2006, focuses on the dynamics of fiction translations from Greek into Turkish from the point of view of translators, publishers or ...
  • The role of Thilda Kemal in the recreation of Yaşar Kemal's literature in English 
    Kaya, Burçe. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    The aim of this study is to reveal Thilda Kemal's role as a translator in the recreation of YaşarK emal's literature in English. In this study, "The Wind from the Plain" trilogy, which includes the novels The Wind, from ...
  • Tracing discourse in prefaces to Turkish translations of fiction by Remzi publishing huose in the 1930s and 1940s 
    Bozkurt, Seyhan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Regarding translation not only as a linguistic transfer but as part of a complex sociocultural context this study focuses on the discourse in translators' prefaces to find out what facts their analysis can reveal about the ...
  • Absence/silence of a translation as a borderline issue: Şeytan Ayetleri (The Satanic Verses) 
    Yılmaz, Sevcan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis is particularly concerned with what the effects of ideology on the selection process of the translation are and how and why ideology aborts authors or texts-to-be-translated. Firstly, the significance of silence ...
  • Translation and identity: a case study on Eda: an anthology of contemporary Turkish poetry 
    Uçak, Hülya. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    The aim of this thesis is to present a case study on Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry (2004). This anthology is edited and mainly translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat. The anthology is analyzed with an orientation ...
  • "Türkçe Söyleyen" Can Yücel: The "Rewriter" par excellence 
    Çavuşoğlu, Özgür. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This thesis problematizes the poet-translator Can Yücel’s unique translation approach designated as “Türkçe Söyleyen” in the Turkish literary system by analyzing four of his translations in three genres: poetry, drama, and ...
  • A critical re-evaluation of Gideon Toury's target-oriented approach to "Translation" phenomena 
    Özben, R. Tunç. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1998., 1998.)
    Translating and interpreting are two separate but related forms of “Translation”. Various scholars of Interpreting Studies believe that translation theories are significant in understanding the phenomena of interpreting. ...
  • Detecting emotions during the application of skin conductance and heart rate measurement techniques 
    Çakar, Tuna. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Emotions have long been recognized as influential factors in human behavior and they have various influences on motivation, cognition and attention. A variety of empirical evidences have shown that emotions have been a ...
  • Gigerenzer’s eclectic normativism 
    Selim, Aslı. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis examines Gigerenzer’s criticism of classical rationality and evaluates the adequacy of the ecological rationality view that he offers in its place. Classical rationality assumes that normative standards are ...
  • ACT-R based memory models of iterated prisoner’s dilemma 
    Çetinkaya, Ayşegül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma game is an important tool for studying cooperation in social, biological and artificial environments. Various behavioral and neuroscientific experiments point to complex decision making and ...
  • Cognitive dynamics of scientific curiosity 
    Subaşı, Ahmet. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The aim of this thesis is to develop an integrative perspective on the cognitive dynamics of scientific curiosity which influence and bias its motivational direction, i.e. its selectivity property. This perspective analyzes ...
  • Experience and insight under time pressure :|a study with race game 
    Yalınkılınç, Duygu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In this paper, we experimentally study the effects of time constraints on learning efficient planning when subjects need to make sequential decisions. The subject is explored by utilizing a game theoretical tool called ...
  • The role of ventral pallidal gabaergic neurons in affective and cognitive processes 
    Akmeşe, Cemal. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2022., 2022.)
    GABAergic projections from the ventral pallidum (VP) and the associated substantia innominata (SI) are relayed to two limbic structures respectively associated with acute and chronic forms of fear: the amygdala and the ...
  • Unsupervised learning of high-level invariant visual representations through temporal coherence 
    Orhan, Ahmed Emin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    Temporal coherence principle is the idea of neglecting rapidly changing compo- nents of a temporal signal while keeping to the slowly varying ones, in order to extract useful invariances from the signal. We note that most ...
  • Interactions of body representations in rubber hand illusion and tool-use paradigms 
    Erkent, Mahmut Alp. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In neuropsychological literature, numerous case studies suggest two separate body representations in the brain; one for perception, called the body image, and one for action, called the body schema. Rubber hand illusion ...