Aytaç Çeltek
List of John Benjamins publications in which Aytaç Çeltek is involved.
Articles
2024 The functions of “I think” in TED Talks and their Turkish translations: A corpus-based study The Speech Act(ion) of Commenting in Social Media and Beyond, Külpmann, Robert and Rita Finkbeiner (eds.), pp. 391–420 | Article
This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the pragmatic marker “I think” and its translation into Turkish, specifically focusing on its use in TED Talks. Using a corpus-based approach, the research investigates the various functions and Turkish equivalents of “I think”, revealing… read more
2016 The acquisition of TAM markers in L2 Turkish: Evidence from Greek learners Second Language Acquisition of Turkish, Gürel, Ayşe (ed.), pp. 75–106 | Article
The acquisition of tense, aspect and modality (TAM) poses a major acquisition problem for adult second language (L2) learners. Early interlanguages are reported to be impoverished with respect to the use of TAM markers. In this paper, we investigate the acquisition and the use of TAM morphemes… read more
2013 Code alternation patterns in bilingual family conversations: Implications for an integrated model of analysis Language Variation - European Perspectives IV: Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011, Auer, Peter, Javier Caro Reina and Göz Kaufmann (eds.), pp. 117–128 | Article
In this study, we analyse conversations recorded during ethnographic research in the Greek/Turkish bilingual community of Rhodes within a Conversation Analysis (CA) framework. Our data comprise recordings of everyday talk-in-interaction during bilingual family gatherings. We examine aspects of the… read more


