CLIMATE CHANGE DISCOURSE & SCICOMM
PI, Postdoctoral project, funded by TUBITAK, 2024-2025.
The Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication, School of Education, Communication & Society, King’s College London, UK. Collaborator: Dr Chris Tang
THE CORPUS OF TURKISH YOUTH LANGUAGE (CoTY) (Tur.Genclik Dili Derlemi)
Completed PhD Dissertation (September, 2022), Language Studies/English Language Teaching Program at METU, Ankara/Turkiye. MORE DETAILS
Efeoglu-Ozcan, E. & Işık-Güler, H. (2025). Compiling the first spoken corpus for Turkish youth talk: Overview of the corpus and methodological issues, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.25007.efe
Efeoglu-Ozcan, E. & Işık-Güler, H. (2024). Derlem dilbilim ile gençlik diline bakış: Türkçe için ihtiyaçlar ve gelişim alanları / Youth language through corpus linguistics: Gaps and future directions for Turkish, Dil Dergisi, 75(2), 92-115.
Researcher, DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF ‘CORONAPHOBIA’ IN TURKISH MEDIA, 2020-2022.
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of the coronavirus discourse in Turkish media and the discursive construction of ‘coronaphobia’.
GRANT: Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBITAK) 1002 – Scientific and Technological Research Projects Funding Program (220K278). PI: Emel Kökpınar-Kaya (Hacettepe University), Researchers: Yeliz Demir van Scheppingen, Emre Yağlı, Oktay Çınar, Esranur Efeoglu-Ozcan.
Kökpınar-Kaya, E., Demir von Scheppingen, Y.,Yaglı, E., Çınar, O. & Efeoglu-Ozcan, E. (2023). Medyada Koronafobi Söylemi / Coronophobia Discourse in Media. Paradigma Publishing.
Academic Advisor & Project Coordinator, TURKISH STUDENT CORPUS OF WRITTEN LANGUAGE (TSVP) (Tur.Turkce Soz Varlıgı Projesi), 2018-2022.
Building a nation-wide written and spoken corpora for student language covering Grades 2nd to 12th in Turkiye.
Project Lead: The Ministry of National Education/Turkiye, Scientific Advisor & Academic Coordinator for the province of Ankara (w/ Hale Işık-Güler).
A news report on the project [TURKISH]
Researcher, COFFEE TALK, 2018-2019.
Investigation of women’s co-constructed narratives during the sociocultural ritual of coffee-cup readings in Turkiye.
GRANT: Middle East Technical University Research Fund (GAP-503-2018-3053). PI: Betil Eröz (METU), Researchers: Esranur Efeoglu-Ozcan (Gazi University & METU) & Banu Çiçek Başaran Uysal (Eskişehir Osmangazi University).
Eroz, B., Efeoglu-Ozcan, E., & Başaran Uysal, B. Ç. (2025). “Neyse Halim Çıksın Falim”: Turkish women’s intimate discourse in fortune-telling sessions through coffee cup readings, Discourse Studies, 27(1), 82-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241252894
Data collector, transcriber, annotator, THE SPOKEN TURKISH CORPUS, 2008-2011.
The first spoken corpus of contemporary Turkish language, the project was supported by TUBITAK & METU Research Fund, led by Dr. Sukriye Ruhi &the faculty at FLE, METU. More info@ https://std.metu.edu.tr/en/hakkinda/