EMEL KÖKPINAR KAYA, Dr. Research Assistant Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters Department of English Linguistics E-Mail: emelkokpinar[at]hacettepe.edu.tr Tel: 0090 312 2978525 (Department) EDUCATION 2014 PhD - Hacettepe University, Ankara (General Linguistics) 2006 MA - Hacettepe University, Ankara (General Linguistics) 2002 BA - Middle East Technical University, Ankara (English Language Teaching) GRADUATION THESES 2014 An Analysis on Conversational Narratives in Turkish 2006 An Analysis of Turkish Television Advertisements at the Linguistic and Semiological Interface: Culture-Based Representations ACADEMIC RESEARCH INTERESTS Conversational Narratives, Narrative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, Identity, Semiotics, Social Semiotics. ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2009 - to date Research Assistant - Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Linguistics. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE MEB Bahçecik İlköğretim Okulu, Haymana/ Ankara, 09/2007-07/2009 (school administrator) MEB Bahri Hacıahmetoğlu İlköğretim Okulu, Ayaş/ Ankara, 09/2002-09/2007 (English teacher) ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS 2014 - to date Academic Advisor Linguistic Society of Hacettepe Students 2014 - to date Departmental Erasmus Vice Coordinator Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters, English Linguistics Department
2014-2016 Academic Member of the Administrative Committee of Student Societies 2017- Faculty of Letters, Student Societies Coordinator EDITORIAL BOARD ACTIVITIES 2017 English Editor Gençlik Araştırmaları Dergisi SCHOLARSHIPS The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) 2214 International Research Fellowship Program, Patras University (Greece) in the supervision of Prof. Dr. Argiris Archakis, 2013. SUMMER SCHOOLS 11 th Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar, Cluj-Napoca Romania, 2004. MEMBERSHIPS 2015-2017 Linguistics Society (Turkey) Member of Executive Board (Secretary) 2016- to date International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) PUBLICATIONS Presentations in National Conferences 2017 Yeşil sahalardan Viyana kapılarına: Twitter gönderilerinde Osmanlıspor üzerine bir söylemlerarasılık incelemesi (From football fields to the gates of Vienna: An interdiscursitivity analysis on Osmanlıspor at Twitter posts). 31. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, Anadolu Üniversitesi, Eskişehir, 12-13 Mayıs. (Emre Yağlı ile) 2016 Bir söylem belirleyicisi olarak Ondan Sonra nın etkileşimsel anlatılardaki anlatıcı ve dinleyici odaklı görünümleri (The teller- and listener- oriented representations of ondan sonra as a discourse marker in conversational narratives). 30. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, Ankara University, Ankara, 13-14 May. 2016 3 Temmuz Sürecinin Türkiye spor gazetelerindeki gösterimleri üzerine bir durum çalışması: Eleştirel bir yaklaşım (A case study on the representation of July 3 Case on sport newsprint in Turkey: A Critical Approach). 30. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, Ankara University, Ankara, 13-14 May. (with Emre Yağlı) 2015 Türkiye gazetelerinde Suriyeli mültecilerin söylemsel gösterimleri: Suriyeliler üzerine tehdit ve mağdur çerçevesinde farklı tartışmalar (The discursive representation of Syrian refugees in the newspapers of Turkey:
A discussion on Syrians through the topoi of threat and victim ). 29. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, 21-22 May. (with Emre Yağlı and Oktay Çınar) 2013 Etkileşimsel anlatılarda öykü başlangıç ve bitişleri: Konuşma sırası düzeni ve anlatı yapısı arayüzünde bir inceleme (Story Beginnings and Endings in Conversational Narratives: An Analysis at the Interface of conversational sequence organisation and narrative structure). 27. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, Hacettepe University, Antalya, 2-4 May. 2013 Politik Söylemde Kullanılan Kaçınma Stratejileri (The evasion strategies used in political discourse). 27. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, Hacettepe University, Antalya, 2-4 May. (with Sinan Çakır and Abdurrahman Kara) 2012 Türkçe konuşmalarda sıra tamamlama ve sıra tutma eylemlerinin bürünsel özellikleri (The prosodic features of turn-yielding and turn-holding in Turkish Conversations). 26. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, 24-26 May. (with Emre Yağlı) Presentations in International Conferences 2017 Approaching conversational narratives in Metadiscourse terms: An analysis on the introductory parts of Culturally Shared Narratives. Metadiscourse Across Genres, Middle East Technical University Cyprus Campus, Güzelyurt, North Cyprus. 29 March-1 April. 2017 Tense Shifts in the Narrative Construction of Turkish Conversational Storytelling: The Use of the Past Tense and Conversational Historical Present. 18 th International Conference of Turkish Linguistics, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey. 24-26 February. 2016 Symbolic construction of Greek/Turkish borders via discursiveperformances in newsprint media of Greece and Turkey: Evidence through Syrian Exodus, 1 st International Conference Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders, American Hellenic University, Athens, Greece. 23-25 September. 2015 Syrians beyond Syria's border: The standpoints of newsprint media in Turkey through governmental and anti-governmental traits. Political Discourse: Multidisciplinary Approaches, UCL-University College London, London, United Kingdom. 26-27 June. (with Emre Yağlı and Oktay Çınar) 2015 To answer or not to answer: Politicians of Turkey in the edge of evading and answering. Political Discourse: Multidisciplinary Approaches, UCL- University College London, London, United Kingdom. 26-27 June. (with Sinan Çakır and Abdurrahman Kara) 2014 An analysis on turn-taking organisation of Turkish conversational storytelling. 17 th International Conference of Turkish Linguistics, Rouen University, Rouen, France. 3-5 September.
2014 Narrative structure of complex conversational narratives in Turkish: An analysis of topical and textual organisation. 17 th International Conference of Turkish Linguistics, Rouen University, Rouen, France. 3-5 September. (with Prof. Dr. Işıl Özyıldırım) 2012 A case study on the ethical considerations of the methodology of conversation analysis. 16 th International Congress of Turkish Linguistics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye, 18-21 September. 2012 Conversational narratives in Turkish: An analysis of basic and complex narrative structures. 16 th International Congress of Turkish Linguistics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye, 18-21 September. (with Prof. Dr. Işıl Özyıldırım) 2010 An analysis of the addressing terms used in Turkish Society in the interface of alienation and intimacy. 15 th International Congress of Turkish Linguistics, Szeged University, Szeged, Hungary, 20-22 August. Articles in National/International Refereed Journals 2017 The teller/receiver-oriented functions of ondan sonra as a discourse marker in conversational narratives. Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi, 14 (1), pp. 35-59. 2016 Evasion strategies used in Turkish political discourse. The Journal of International Social Research, 9 (46), pp. 58-64. (with Sinan Çakır and Abdurrahman Kara) Published Conference Papers 2014 Etkileşimsel anlatılarda öykü başlangıç ve bitişleri: Konuşma sırası düzeni ve anlatı yapısı arayüzünde bir inceleme (Story Beginnings and Endings in Conversational Narratives: An Analysis at the Interface of conversational sequence organisation and narrative structure). 27. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı Bildirileri, pp. 154-166. 2013 Türkçe konuşmalarda sıra tamamlama ve sıra tutma eylemlerinin bürünsel özellikleri (The prosodic features of turn-yielding and turn-holding in Turkish Conversations). 26. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı Bildirileri, pp.184-194. (with Emre Yağlı) 2012 An Analysis of the Addressing Terms Used in Turkish Society in the Interface of Alienation and Intimacy. In Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Szeged, Hungary.
Sections in Books 2016 Dil ve gösterge ekseninde söylem çözümlemesi. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kocaman'a Armağan: Dilbilime Adanmış Bir Yaşam. Ankara: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları. 2013 A case study on the ethical considerations of the methodology of Conversation Analysis. 40. Yıl Yazıları. Ankara: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, pp. 187-208. Translations 2016 Çatışma sonrası barışın yapılandırılması için barış eğitimi. Dirilen Gümüş, Ö. (Ed.), Siyaset Psikolojisi. Ankara: Nobel Popular Science Articles 2012 Yapısalcılık Bağlamında Dil ve Kültür (Language and Culture in the Consideration of Structuralism), Bilim ve Ütopya. August 218, pp. 30-34. COURSES GIVEN Undergraduate Courses IDB 116 Languages of the World IDB 123 Academic Study Skills IDB 156 Readings in Linguistics IDB 211 Language and Culture IDB 214 The History of Science and Civilisation IDB 253 History of Linguistics I IDB 261 Morphology I IDB 264 Semantics I IDB 305 History of Linguistics II IDB 369 Semantics II IDB 381 Discourse Analysis I IDB 382 Discourse Analysis II IDB 398 Semiotics IDB 483 Methods in Sociolinguistics IDB 484 Stylistics IDB 434 Literary Text Analysis III Update: May 2017