Aktar, Merve
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Araştırma projeleri
Career-wise, this project provided some of its researchers their valuable first experience with project development, coordination, execution, in addition data analysis. Specifically in terms of the topic, the project facilitated:
- deeper understanding in three dimensions of the undertaken work: the experiences and coping strategies of students in Turkey during the pandemic lockdown,
- the extension of the analytical focus of argument analysis from propositions to narrative stories.
- the formation of a competent core research team in performing argument analysis of everyday discourse and narratives
- endeavors to write and apply to large-scale projects with the core research team and partnerships.
- a PhD dissertation on the project topic, in progress, by ACI student, Hossein Turner.
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İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü
Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü’nün vizyonu, özellikle Avrupa ve Orta Doğu dillerinde yazılmış eserleri hem birbirleriyle hem de Türk Edebiyatı’yla mukayese ederek, medeniyetlerin geçişkenliği hakkında bilgi üretmek ve farkındalık yaratmaktır. Eleştirel bakış açısının temel alınacağı Bölümde, edebiyat, dil, kültür, sinema alanlarındaki gelişmeleri yakından takip edip, tartışmalara katkı sağlayacak bilim insanları yetiştirmeyi hedeflemektedir.
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Yayın “It tempered me (like iron) a little:” Pandemic Metaphors by University Students in Turkey(Albanian Society for the Study of English, 2022) Aktar, Merve; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat BölümüIs the virus a “natural” or “artificial” phenomenon? Will it “catch” you or will you “escape” its grip? Were the mandatory precautions “sacred” or did you feel “imprisoned?” These are some of the metaphoric expressions used by students in Turkey to describe the virus and their lives during the first year of the Covid 19 pandemic. From journeys of self-discovery to admissions of “feeling crippled” by the inability to exert agency, my proposed conference paper has an end to introduce and discuss the narratives of twenty-seven Gen Z’ers from across Turkey. I obtain this data from the ongoing academic research project that I am involved in, titled, “Young people's COVID-19 narratives from an argumentative perspective and normative implications.” Referencing George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s seminal text, Metaphors We Live By, I will critically compare students’ engagement in and critique of master metaphors surrounding the virus and public aspects of the pandemic, including the traditional expressions of the virus as a “trap,” and the disputed public narrative of unity—or lack thereof— “we are all in the same boat.”
