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• MakaleAçık Erişim2026/r/gumushane/19400
  A Comparative Genre Analysis of Turkish Consumer Reviews in Digital Contexts

  Demir, Süleyman

  This study presents a genre-based comparative analysis of 100 Turkish product reviews collected from Trendyol and 100 book reviews from Kitapyurdu, aiming to uncover the structural, linguistic, and pragmatic features shaping user-generated digital discourse. Drawing on frameworks of move structure analysis and linguistic evaluation, the research investigates how differing communicative purposes, expectations, and platform affordances influence the way users articulate evaluations, express emotions, and offer recommendations. The findings demonstrate that product reviews generally adhere to a concise and function-oriented structure, often comprising an initial evaluation, followed by a reasoning phase that justifies the user’s stance based on personal experience, and concluding with explicit recommendations or appreciation directed toward sellers or future buyers. These reviews are typically characterized by informal and conversational language, spelling and punctuation irregularities, extensive use of intensifiers, as well as extralinguistic aspects such as emojis that visually reinforce affective meanings. Notably, product reviews frequently mention ideas about packaging quality, delivery speed, or the suitability of the product for a specific family member, enhancing their persuasive impact. In contrast, book reviews display an elaborate rhetorical organization. They often begin with detailed descriptions or definitions of the work, reference the author’s broader literary contributions, and provide interpretative evaluations enriched by thematic summaries or selective quotations. The syntactic complexity, careful punctuation, and lexically diverse style of these reviews signal a deeper cognitive and affective engagement with the content. By illustrating how genre conventions and platform contexts jointly shape linguistic and discursive choices, this study underscores the value of genre awareness in fostering critical digital literacy. It also points to pedagogical applications in language teaching and suggests avenues for future research on digital genres across diverse sociocultural settings, media platforms, and interactional modalities.

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• MakaleAçık Erişim2026/r/gumushane/19360
  Corpus-Driven Lexical Profiles of Feminine Words in Turkish: Bayan, Kadın and Karı

  Demir, Süleyman

  This study aims to examine the semantic and pragmatic features of the three female-referential words “bayan,” “kadın,” and “karı” using a corpus-driven approach. Accordingly, colligations, collocations, semantic preferences, and semantic prosodies of the words were analyzed using concordance lines obtained from the Turkish National Corpus (TNC) with an “extended lexical unit model.” To this end, the concordance lines of each word were subjected to multiple readings, and recurring formal and semantic patterns were classified to determine the semantic relationships between words. The findings show that words have different discursive functions and social representations. The word “bayan” is concentrated in institutional, formal, and neutral contexts; in classificatory and labelling areas of use, while not carrying a distinct emotional prosody. “Kadın,” on the other hand, exhibits a multi-layered pattern of meaning in semantic fields such as emotional evaluation, motherhood/family roles, cultural identities, and political discourse, in addition to physical description; it develops positive and negative prosodies depending on the context. The word “karı,” on the other hand, is used in pejorative, slang, and derogatory contexts; it carries a predominantly negative connotation, producing a distinct negative prosody through insulting adjectives, demeaning comparisons, and masculine possessive discourse. The study demonstrates that female-referenced words are shaped at the level of linguistic choice by gender ideologies, value attributions, and discursive positioning. In this respect, the findings provide important clues for broader sociolinguistic research on how representations of women are constructed.

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• MakaleAçık Erişim2025/r/gumushane/19598
  Marking Plurality in Turkish and Persian: A Contrastive Morphological Analysis

  Demir, Süleyman

  The aim of the study is to compare and contrast the pluralisation suffixes in Turkish and Persian, two geographically and culturally neighbouring languages, in order to analyse both the main morphological differences and parallels between the two languages. To this end, the inventory of plural suffixes in Turkish and Persian are methodically identified and analysed with a special focus on their phonological forms, distributional patterns, and syntactic implications. The study shows that, both languages employ several inflectional suffixes to pluralise nouns but, the type and application of these suffixes are quite different. The analysis is conducted in three stages, namely description, juxtaposition and comparison, which is in accordance with the contrastive grammar methodology. The results of this contrastive study show that, the variety of plural forms in Persian is more than those of in Turkish as Persian has irregular or broken plural forms, and this increases the morphological complexity of the language. In contrast, Turkish pluralisation is highly regular and predictable, sticking closely to morphophonemic standards based on consonantal assimilation and vowel harmony. Another distinguishing trait is that Persian establishes a distinction between animate and inanimate nouns in pluralisation, whereas Turkish does not. It is evident that the pluralisation techniques used in these two languages, which share a large word inventory, are constantly different. Persian-speaking Turkish learners may struggle with these variations, particularly when studying rule-based affixation or dealing with irregularity. Based on these findings, the study makes practical recommendations for instructors, second language learners, curriculum planners, translators, and textbook authors working in bilingual or comparative environments

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• MakaleAçık Erişim2024/r/gumushane/19939
  Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis of a Turkish Sadness Verb Hüzünlen

  Demir, Süleyman; Özyıldırım, Işıl

  This study provides a semantic and pragmatic analysis of the Turkish verb "hüzünlen-" which conveys the meaning of sadness. Following a corpus-driven approach, query sequences from the Turkish National Corpus (TNC) were analysed according to the Extended Lexical Units model. In this context, 284 query sequences found in real spoken and written language samples were examined to determine the lexical profile of the verb "hüzünlen-." The aim of the study is to reveal the semantic and pragmatic usage differences of the verb "hüzünlen-" comparedæ to other verbs expressing sadness. In this regard, the syntactic features, collocational tendencies, and context dependent semantic and pragmatic characteristics of the verb "hüzünlen-" were thoroughly investigated. As a corpus-driven study, this research is the result of an inductive examination. The study demonstrated that the lexical framework of the verb "hüzünlen-"implies a sudden, intense sadness often related to past events and circumstances. The findings contribute to a better understanding of the cultural and linguistic features of expressing sadness in Turkish, as well as to comprehending the cognitive aspects of the emotion of sadness. Furthermore, the results of the study offer significant insights into how expressions of sadness are shaped in linguistic and cultural contexts in Turkish, allowing for a broader perspective on the linguistic representation of sadness. This research suggests that the verb "hüzünlen-" should be examined not only in Turkish but also in comparison with similar emotional expressions in other languages. Thus, it can contribute to understanding the universal and culture-specific features of language and emotion.

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• MakaleAçık Erişim2024/r/gumushane/19877
  Türkçe üzüntü eylemi dertlen- ‘in sözcük profili: derlem çıkışlı bir inceleme

  Demir, Süleyman; Özyıldırım, Işıl

  Bu çalışma olumsuz bir duygu olarak tanımlanan üzüntü anlamını ifade eden bir Türkçe eylemin sözcük profilini analiz etmeyi amaçlayan derlem çıkışlı bir yaklaşım kullanmaktadır. Çalışma Türkçe Ulusal Derlemi’nden (TUD) elde edilen veriyi Genişletilmiş Sözcük Birimleri (Stubbs, 2005) modeli çerçevesinde ele almaktadır. Derlemden elde edilen sorgu dizinlerine dayanarak dertlen- fiilinin olası anlamsal değerini üzüntü duygusunun bilişsel özellikleri bağlamında kavrayabilmek için eylemin söz dizimsel özellikleri, eşdizimlilik eğilimleri, bağlam bağımlı anlamsal ve edimsel nitelikleri tespit edilmiştir. Buna göre, Dertlen- eyleminin başkalarının sıkıntılarından kaynaklanan bir üzüntüyü ifade ettiği bulunmuş ve bu bulgu empati-özgecilik hipotezi (Batson, 1991) bağlamında tartışılmıştır. Bu yönüyle, fiil “diğerkamlık” davranışıyla bilinen Türk kültürü hakkında ipuçları sunmaktadır. Çalışma ayrıca söz konusu eylemin gelecekle ilgili üzüntü durumlarına kıyasla geçmiş/şimdiki zaman bağıntılı olumsuzluklarla daha sık kullanıldığını göstermektedir. Derlem çıkışlı yaklaşımların geçerliliğini ortaya koyacak şekilde, elde edilen veri bu üzüntü eyleminin kendine has özellikleri olduğunu ve bu şematik yapının da dertlen- eyleminin anlamsal ve edimsel yükünü de şekillendiren bir sözcük çevresi oluşturduğunu göstermiştir.

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