Hello, I am Esra! I am a language researcher based in Ankara, Turkiye. I am primarily interested in socio-pragmatic, discursive, and corpus-assisted investigation of interaction. My works so far have focused on corpus design and compilation (spoken/written), conceptual metaphors (persuasion and communicating ideologies in public/political discourses, diachronic metaphor research), discourses around women and women’s discourse (inclusion/exclusion of women in the media; co-construction solidarity in women’s narratives), and linguistic practices of young speakers (discursive dynamics, register-specific linguistic patterns, linguistic innovation in youth talk).

I have been involved in various national and uni funded projects since my undergraduate years. Find the details of those works here.

The focus of my PhD dissertation is how Turkish speaking urban youth co-create discourses for various interactional purposes. For this, I compiled spontaneous and naturally occurring dyadic and multi-party speech among young people aged 14 to 18 in Turkiye and built a specialized spoken corpus, The Corpus of Turkish Youth Language (CoTY), using EXMARaLDA. I aim to expand this project over the years and encompass various modes and mediums of youth interaction. The current version of the CoTY has 123 speakers and 168,748 tokens in total, and it enables the first systematic investigation of linguistic characteristics and discursive practices of language spoken by Turkish youth. Find more information about my dissertation and the corpus here.

I am an open science advocate, I’ve been incrementing and advocating open science practices since my graduate studies. For an overview of this initiative, have a look at the resources page which I am regularly updating to curate related docs, handbooks, guides, templates, etc. Let’s make linguistic research more transparent, collaborative, and accessible!

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