ARTICLES

Tang, C., Ogiermann, E. & Efeoglu-Ozcan, E. (2026). Directives as Health Communication: A Corpus-Based Study. Corpus Pragmatics, 10(34). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-026-00238-4

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

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. (2022). Pull the weeds out or perish: Using pandemic metaphors to strengthen in-group solidarity in Turkish political discourse. Metaphor and Symbol, 37(2), 171-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2021.1994840rse

Efeoglu, E. & Isık-Güler, H. (2017). Turkey as BODY POLITIC: A comparative perspective on body-related metaphors from Turkish, British, and American political news discourse. Journal of Linguistic Research, 28(1), 55-77. https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.287846

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[TURKISH] 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. https://doi.org/10.33690/dilder.1548981

Efeoglu-Ozcan, E., Erdoğan-Oztürk, Y., & Işık-Güler, H. (2021). Why do adults use baby talk in the online space? Baby talk as a pragmatic face device in adult communication. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 15(2), 311-29.  https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1047505

BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS

Erdogan-Oztürk, Y., Efeoglu-Ozcan, E. & Işık-Güler, H. (2024). From “the National Pride” to “the Daughters”: Media representations of Olympic sportswomen in Turkey. In S. Schnurr & K. File (Eds.), The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports (pp. 171-192). De Gruyter Mouton. 

[TURKISH] Kökpınar-Kaya, E., Demir von Scheppingen, Y.,Yaglı, E., Çınar, O. & Efeoglu-Ozcan, E. (2023). Medyada Koronafobi Söylemi / Coronophobia Discourse in Media. Paradigma Publishing.

[TURKISH] Efeoglu-Ozcan, E. (2023). Ötekileştirme Metaforları / Metaphors of Othering. In Y. Aksan & E. Arıca-Akkök (Eds.), Kavramsal Metafor ve Metonimi Üzerine Uygulamalar (pp. 115-131). Toros University Publishing.

Baş, M. & Efeoglu-Ozcan, E. (2022). How to pass this exam? Dealing with COVID-19 through metaphors in Turkish online public discourse, In A. Musolff, R. Breeze, K. Kondo, & S. Vilar-Lluch (Eds.), Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (pp. 207-222). Bloomsbury Academic.

Efeoglu-Ozcan, E. (2021). Pragmatics and metaphors. In Ş. S. Çimen & B. Bal-Gezegin (Eds.), Pragmatics and Language Teaching (pp. 49-68). Pegem Academy Publishing.

DISSERTATION

For my PhD, I built The Corpus of Turkish Youth Language (CoTY), using EXMARaLDA, which enabled the first systematic investigation of lexical characteristics and discursive practices of language spoken by Turkish youth. Find more information about it here.