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Sign advantage: Both children and adults’ spatial expressions in sign are more informative than those in speech and gestures combined
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-12)Expressing Left-Right relations is challenging for speaking-children. Yet, this challenge was absent for signing-children, possibly due to iconicity in the visual-spatial modality of expression. We investigate whether there ... -
Sleepwalking in İstanbul: a man in anguish in A. H. Tanpinar's A Mind at Peace
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's (1901-62) novels reflect the dichotomy within early twentieth-century Turkey: a nation maintaining past tradition yet concurrently embracing modernity. Tanpınar explores the Ottoman legacy of Turkish ... -
Social experiences of Turkish parents raising a child with apert syndrome: A qualitative study
(Sage, 2021-02)Objective: Apert syndrome is a rare and understudied craniofacial condition with regard to its psychosocial impact on children and their parents. Due to the lack of studies focusing solely on the social experiences of ... -
Some thoughts on class and class struggle as evoked by Durrenberger and Doukas’ article
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Sources of ai innovation: More than a U.S.-China rivalry
(Transatlantic Policy Quarterly, 2023)Many experts frame the debates around AI technology as a great power rivalry between the U.S. and China. Indeed, by most measures, the United States and China lead the world in AI innovation. Yet focusing solely on the ... -
Spatial language use predicts spatial memory of children: evidence from sign, speech, and speech-plus-gesture
(The Cognitive Science Society, 2021)There is a strong relation between children’s exposure to spatial terms and their later memory accuracy. In the current study, we tested whether the production of spatial terms by children themselves predicts memory accuracy ... -
Spatial reason of the state: the role of space in protest repression in Turkey
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)Between 2007 and 2019 the Turkish regime used protest bans extensively in order to impede collective mobilization. In this paper, drawing on Michel Foucault’s discussion of raisond’état and an original dataset of protest ... -
Speaking and gesturing guide event perception during message conceptualization: Evidence from eye movements
(Elsevier, 2022-08)Speakers' visual attention to events is guided by linguistic conceptualization of information in spoken language production and in language-specific ways. Does production of language-specific co-speech gestures further ... -
Speaking but not gesturing predicts event memory: a cross-linguistic comparison
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-09)Every day people see, describe, and remember motion events. However, the relation between multimodal encoding of motion events in speech and gesture, and memory is not yet fully understood. Moreover, whether language ... -
Speaking but not gesturing predicts motion event memory within and across languages
(The Cognitive Science Society, 2019)In everyday life, people see, describe and remember motion events. We tested whether the type of motion event information (path or manner) encoded in speech and gesture predicts which information is remembered and if this ... -
Status quo conservatism, placation, or partisan division? Analysing citizen attitudes towards financial reform in the United States
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-05-04)Within the literature on financial governance a key question is why the 2008 financial crisis did not elicit a stronger regulatory reaction than it did - the 'post-crisis stasis' puzzle. We explore a neglected dimension ... -
Stepping into the global: Turkish professionals, employment in transnational corporations, and aspiration to transnational forms of cultural capital
(Sage, 2018-05)This article explores the narratives of professionals from Turkey working in transnational corporations to contribute to discussions of new middle classes and global stratification focusing on emerging forms of cultural ... -
Stigma for common mental disorders in racial minorities and majorities a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Springer Nature, 2020-06-08)Background: There is a strong stigma attached to mental disorders preventing those affected from getting psychological help. The consequences of stigma are worse for racial and/or ethnic minorities compared to racial and/or ... -
The strategic logic of digital disinformation: Offence, defence and deterrence in information warfare
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-01)Why do countries engage in disinformation campaigns even though they know that they will likely be debunked later on? We explore a core puzzle in information warfare in which countries that pursue disinformation to confuse ... -
The strategic use of narratives and governance of the COVID-19 pandemic in major autocratisers in Europe
(Taylor & Francis, 2024)By the end of 2022, scholars had published heavily on authoritarian consolidation at the time of COVID-19 and explored how governments adopted measures weakening democratic checks and balances yet strengthened their regimes ... -
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The stubborn persistence of working-class protest in Turkey in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism
(Taylor & Francis, 2024)Under authoritarian neoliberalism, Turkey has seen the number of legal strikes plummet since the mid-1990s. Alongside deepening authoritarianism, the AKP government banned nearly all legal strikes in the 2010s. How have ... -
Students’ self-presentation on Facebook: an examination of personality and self-construal factors
(Elsevier, 2012-11)The present research seeks to extend existing theory on self-disclosure to the online arena in higher educational institutions and contribute to the knowledge base and understanding about the use of a popular social ... -
Subcontracted employment and the labor movement’s response in turkey
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Suggestions on the social meaning and functions of akhi hospices in medieval anatolia
(Edinburgh University Press, 2017-01-01)The Islamic tradition of futuwwa (Turk. futuvvet), or ethical codes, received a certain degree of political legitimacy when the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah (r. 1180–1225) admitted it to courtly life. Soon after, ...
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