Didar AKAR
- Senior Advisor
1998 |
Ph.D. in Linguistics. University of Michigan. |
1990 |
M.A. in Linguistics, Boğaziçi University. |
1987 |
B.A. in Western Languages and Literature, Boğaziçi University. |
Discourse analysis, genre analysis, language and gender, language acquisition
- Co-investigator, Utilizing Digital Technology for Social Cohesion, Positive Messaging and Peace by Boosting Collaboration, Exchange and Solidarity (2021 - 2024). European Commission - EuropeAid.
- PI, Identity construction in the narratives of female victims of domestic abuse (2007-2012). Boğaziçi University Research Fund. Description: Identity construction in the narratives of female victims of domestic abuse.
- Researcher, SLI (Specific Language Impairment) in Turkish (2004-2007). Boğaziçi University Research Fund. Description: A project with Mine Nakipoğlu (PI) and Ayşe Gürel on the description and diagnosis of SLI in Turkish.
- Researcher, The role of language in the development of theory of mind (1992-1995). University of Michigan, Department of Psychology. Role: Providing information on Turkish, preparing and carrying out the experiment in Turkey, coding and analyzing the data. Description: A cross-linguistic project with Marilyn Shatz (PI), Ivelisse Martinez, and Gill Diesendruck.
- Researcher, Ottoman project (1994). University of Michigan, Harlan-Hatcher Graduate Library. Description: inventory, transliteration, classification, and card-cataloging of the Ottoman Collection at the Harlan-Hatcher Graduate Library.
Publications
Güven, M., Akar, D., Öztürk ,B. and M. Kelepir (eds) (2016) Exploring The Turkısh Linguistic Landscape: Essays in Honor of Eser
Erguvanlı-Taylan. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Özsoy, S., Akar, D., Demiralp, M. Erguvanlı-Taylan, E. and A. Aksu-Koç (eds.) (2003) Studies on Turkic Linguistics. Istanbul: Boğaziçi University Press.
Taylan, E. and D. Akar (1997) Kayıp Çanta: Öykü Yabancılar için Türkçe Başlangıç Düzeyi. Istanbul: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınları.
Kitap bölümleri
Akar, D.,Öztürk, B., Göksel, A. and M. Kelepir (2020) Common Ground Management and Innder Negation in One: The Case of Hani. In Zeyrek, D.and U. Özge (eds) Ddiscourse Meaning: The View from Turkish. De Gruyter: Mouton. (pp 57-77)
Akar, D. and B. Öztürk (2020) The discourse marker hani in Turkish. In Modicum and Duplatre (eds) Information-Structural Perspective on Discourse Particles.Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. (pp: 251-276)
Akar, D. and L. Martı (2015) Söylem Çözümlemesi. in Seggie and Bayyurt eds. Nitel Araştırma: Yöntem, Teknik, Analiz ve Yaklaşımları. İstanbul: Anı Yayıncılık.(pp. 242-252)
Akar, D. (2011) Impersonalization and agency: The linguistic strategies of distancing the self from traumas. in Erguvanlı-Taylan and Rona (eds) Puzzles of Language: Essays in Honor of Karl Zimmer. Harrassowitz (pp 187-200)
Kaya, N. and D. Akar (2011) Ambivalent belongings: Constructing identities in immigrant discourse. In Ciapiela, K. (ed.) Personal Identity through a Language Lens. Lodz Studies in Language. Peter Lang Publishing. (pp.43-54)
Koçbaş, D. and D. Akar (2007) Açıklayıcı metinlerde bağlılık oluşturma yöntemi olarak göndergelerin gelişimsel izleği. Dilbilim Araştırmaları. Istanbul: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi.17-32
Özsoy, S., Akar, D., Demiralp, M. Erguvanlı-Taylan, E. and A. Aksu-Koç (eds.) (2003) Studies on Turkic Linguistics. Istanbul: Boğaziçi University Press.
Akar, D. (2000) Gereğinin yapılmasını rica ederim: İş yazışmalarında kullanılan istek biçimleri. Dilbilim Araştırmalari. Istanbul: Simurg Yayınevi. .9-16.
Akar, D. (2000) Wh-questions in Turkish. In Rona, B. (Ed) Current Issues in Turkish Linguistics volume II. Ankara: Hitit Publications. 67-74.
Akar, D. and L. Louhiala-Salminen (1999) Towards a new genre: A comparative study of business faxes. In Bargiela-Chiappini, F and C. Nickerson (eds) Writing Business: Genres, Methods, and Languages. Essex, UK: Longman.pp.207-226
Taylan, E. and D. Akar (1997) Kayıp Çanta: Öykü Yabancılar için Türkçe Başlangıç Düzeyi. Istanbul: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınları.
Dergi Makaleleri
Kechriotis, C., Akar, D., Kelepir, M. and B. Öztürk (eds) (2014) Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi Special Issue: A Festschrift for Prof. A. Sumru Özsoy. 2014/II. Istanbul: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi.
Shatz, M., Diesendruck, G., Martinez-Beck, I., and Akar, D. (2003) The influence of language and socioeconomic status on children’s understanding of false belief. Developmental Psychology 39(4):717-729.
Akar, D. (2002) The macro contextual factors shaping business discourse: the Turkish case. International Review of Applied Linguistics 40: 305-322.
Akar, D. (2002) The macro contextual factors shaping business discourse: the Turkish case. International Review of Applied Linguistics 40: 305-322.
Konferans Bildirileri
Akar, D. (1988) Interjections in Turkish. In Koç, S. (ed) Proceedings of the IV. International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Ankara: Middle East Technical University. 265-274
Davetli Konuşmalar
Akar, D. (2017) Gökten üç elma düşmüş: Biri anlatana, biri anlatıya, biri de nitel araştırmacıya. Sosyal Bilimlerde Nitel Araştırmalar Sempozyumu. İstanbul Üniversitesi Psikoloji bölümü (23-24 Mart 2017)
Akar, D. (2016) Anlatılar, Yaşam Öyküleri: Dil Üzerinden kurgulanan kimlikler. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Dilbilim topluluğu, İzmir. (11 Mart 2016)
Akar, D. (2015) Konuşma Çözümlemesi ve Sınıf-içi Etkileşim Alanına Katkıları. Anadolu Üniversitesi, Yabancı Diller Merkezi. Eskişehir. (30 nisan 2015)
Konferans Sunumları
Akar, D. (2022) Ladino: Status and Attitude in a Multilingual Community. Presented at the International Colloquium on Endangered Languages. Istanbul, Turkey.
Hüsünbeyi, M. Akar, D. Özgür, A. (2022) Identifying Hate Speech Using Neural Networks and Discourse Analysis Techniques. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technology and Resources for a Fair, Inclusive, and Safe Society within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 32–41, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
Tunçer, Ü.C., Akar, D. (2022) Sosyal Medyadaki Türkçe İnternet Mimlerinin Dilsel ve Belirtisellik Çözümlemesi. Presented at 35. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, Konya, Turkey.
Topçu, İ.N. ,Akar, D. (2022) Sıkıcı ama Eğitimli? Standart Türkçeye karşı tutumlar üzerine bir çalışma. Presented at 35. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, Konya, Turkey.
Hüsünbeyi, M. Akar, D. Özgür, A. (2021) Hate Speech Detection in Turkish Texts via Neural Networks and DiscourseAanalysis Techniques. Presented at ICTL’20 International Conference on Turkic Linguistics, Eskişehir, Turkey.
Martı, L. and D. Akar (2019) Response Tokens in Turkish Conversation. presented at 15th IPrA (International Pragmatics association) Conference, Hong Kong, China.
Sevgi, H. Dinç, B., Akar, D. ,Öztürk, B., Arslan-Kechriotis, C., Kontovas, N. and A. Göksel (2019) İstanbul’un Miras Dillerinin Türkçe ile etkileşimi. presented at 33. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, Mersin, Turkey.
Akar, D. and L. Martı, (2018) Intricacies of Being Negative: Response Tokens in Turkish. Presented at LANSI 2018 (Language and Social Interaction), New York, USA.
Öztürk-Başaran, B. and D. Akar (2018) The Discourse Particle Hani in Turkish.b Presented at SLE 2018 (Societas Linguistica Europaea) Tallinn, Estonia.
Özbey, C. and D. Akar (2018) Multiple Negation in turksih and its Pragmatic Properties. Presented at ICTL’19 International Conference on Turkic Linguistics. Astana, Kazakhstan.
Akar, D. nd L. Martı (2018) Negative Response Tokens in Turkish. Presented at ICTL’19 International Conference on Turkic Linguistics. Astana, Kazakhstan.
Akar, D. and C. Özbey (2018) Multiple Negation as an Epistemic Stance Marker. Presented at GURT 2018 (Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics), Washington D.C., USA.
Özbey, C. and D. Akar (2017) A corpus analysis of double negatives in Turkish. Presented at Pragmatics of Negation: Aspects of Communication, Stockholm, Sweden.
Topaloğlu, S. and D. Akar (2017) Weight-loss narratives in Turkish: Linguistic representations of morality and body perceptions. Poster presented at ICTL 28 (International conference on Turkic Languages), Adana, Turkey.
Akar, D. and D. Bozkurt (2014) Rhetorical questions in everyday talk: A Conversation Analytic approach. Presented at ICTL 27 (International Conference on Turkic Languages), Rouen, France.
Akar, D. (2014) The gendered construction of the “mad” as a social identity. Presented at 8th International Gender and Language Association Conference, Vancouver, Cananda.
Akar, D. (2012) Moral stance markers and identity in the stories of victims of domestic abuse. Presented at 7th International Language and Gender Association Conference, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil.
Sorma, M. and D. Akar (2012) Transgendered Body as the Signifier of ‘Ideal’ Woman . Presented at 7th International Language and Gender Association Conference, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil.
Akar, D. (2011) Authorial Stance and Politeness in academic book reviews. Presented at 6th International Symposium on Politeness: Corpus Approaches, METU, Ankara, Turkey.
Akar, D. (2011) Moral stance as a means of creating causality and identity in life stories. Presented at 12th International Pragmatics conference, Manchester, UK.
Kaya, N and D. Akar (2010) Ambivalent belongings: constructing identities in immigrant discourse. Presented at Personal Identity Through a Language Lens Conference, Lodz, Poland.
İkizoğlu, D. and D. Akar (2010) Direct reported speech: Positioning and relational identity work. Presented at Personal Identity Through a Language Lens Conference, Lodz, Poland.
Akar, D. (2009) “…And then the rape happened”: Distancing and agency in the narratives of domestic violence. Presented at 11th International Pragmatics conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Akar, D. (2009) Victims or survivors?:The identity construction in the narratives from a women’s’ shelter . Presented at 37th NAES Conforence, San Diego, USA.
Koçbaş, D. and D. Akar (2007) Development of global structure in expository texts: Interaction of genre, coherence and literacy. Presented at 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Göteborg, Sweden.
Akar, D. (2004) Not you, not me, but the company: The discourse participants in business correspondence. Presented at The 24th Annual International Conference of The Poetics and Linguistics Association. New York University. New York, NY, USA.
Akar, D. and B. Erdem (2004) When the joke fails: Gender differences in handling failed humorous attempts. Presented at CLPG - International Conference on Language, Politeness and Gender University of Helsinki, Finland.
Akar, D. (2001) The macro contextual factors shaping business discourse: the Turkish case. Presented at ABC European Convention, Dresden, Germany.
Akar, D. and I. Baş (1999) Host”il”ing women: Construction of gendered identities in a radio talk show. Presented at International Symposium: Talking Gender and Sexuality, Aalborg, Denmark.
Akar, D. (1999) Gereğinin yapılmasını rica ederim: İş yazışmalarında kullanılan istek biçimleri. Presented at XIII. Dil Bilim Kurultayı. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.
Akar, D. and L. Louhiala-Salminen (1999) Towards a new genre: A comparative study of business faxes. Presented at AAAL Conference, Orlando, Florida.
Shatz, M., Martinez, I., Diesendruck, G. and D. Akar (1995) The influence of language on children’s understanding of false belief. Presented at Biennial Meeting of the Society for Child Development . Indianapolis, Indiana.
Akar, D. (1994) The role of the language in children’s understanding of the mind. Presented at Turkish Studies Colloquium, University of Michigan.
Akar, D. (1990) Wh-Questions in Turkish. Presented at the V. International conference on Turkish Linguistics. University of London.
MA theses supervised:
Bedir, Seyyit Talha (2022) Pragmatics of Impersonal Pronouns in Turkish
Tunçer, Ümit Can (2022) Turkish Memes and Their Users: Indexıcality and Identity
Through Language Play
Akkaya, Seda Tuğçe (2022) (co-advisor) Gender Representations in Recent advertisements: A Multi-modal Analaysis. (Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3)
Yeniler, Yılmaz (2021) (co-advisor) Interpreting Gender in turksih Archeology and Ancent Historiography: A Crticial Discourse Analysis.
Kavaklı, S. Başak (2020) Media Representation of Migration to Turkey: A Diachronic Perspective.
Özbey, Can (2019) A Corpus Analysis of Negation in Turkish.
Akgün, Erdem (2019) The Cosmopolitanization of Culinary “Consumption”: Steakhouses as Instances of the Culture Industry.
Kısa – Kaz , Nagihan (2018) (Co-advisor) A Tripartite Division of Stative Verbs in Turkish.
Powell, Lance (2018) A Framework for Understanding and Detecting Harrassment in Social VR.
Özbarlas, Zeynep (2016) The Role of Narrative in Creating the Ideal Woman: The Case of Hayat Magazine.
Yıldırım, Ali Utku (2015) Fan by Proxy: Cross-Cultural Media Fandom in Turkey.
Sorma, Mediha Pınar (2014) Fragile Identities: Prostitutes as Signifiers of Patriarchy and Heteronormativity in Turkey.
Arıcan, Aysu (2013) ’The Mad’ spotted? The Politics of Mad Identity Through Discursive Themes on “Mahallenin Delisi”.
Kaya, Neşe (2011) Ambivalent Belongings: A Discourse Analysis of Second Generation Cretan Immigrants in Cunda.
İkizoğlu, Didem (2010) Direct Reported Speech: Positioning and Relational Identity Work.
Humphrey, Alys (2010) Establishing Legitimacy: Persuasion and Organizational Identity.
Can, Ayşegül (2008) Impoliteness on Internet Interaction: Rhetorical Strategies Used in Political Discussion Forums.
Koçbaş, Dilara (2006) Expository Writing in Turkish: A rhetorical Approach to Coherence and Cohesion.
Erdem, Bilgen (2005) Conversational Humor in Peer Groups.
Çağlar, Özge (2004) Interactional Dynamics in Medical Encounters: The Participant Roles and Identities.
Verdiği Lisans dersleri
LING 111 Introduction to Linguistics
LING 101 Introduction to Lingguistics I
LING 102 Introduction to Linguistics II
ENGL 201 Structure of Modern English
LING 203 Syntax
LING 321 Turkish-English Contrastive Analysis
TK 204 Structure of Modern Turkish
LING 341 Sociolinguistics
LING 408 Language and Gender
LING 483 Narrative Analysis
LING 492 Introduction to Discourse Analysis
LING 495 Conversation Analysis
LING 496 Language and Identity
Verdiği Yüksek Lisans/Doktora dersleri
Ling 552 Sociolinguistics
Ling 553-583-584 Discourse Analysis
LING 58T Language and Interaction
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