Alper Çakmak

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alper Çakmak is involved.

Title

History, Discourse, and Policy in Modern Turkey

Alper Çakmak

Through critical discourse analysis (CDA) and the discourse-historical approach (DHA), this book probes into political discourse imbued with historical legacies, with particular focus on explicating the structure and function of AKP stories and its relationship with Turkish politics. It offers an… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 95] 2021. xvi, 212 pp.

Article

Çakmak, Alper and M. İnanç Özekmekçi 2021 Retrieving the new from the legacy of history: Discourse and symbols of history in Modern Turkey Journal of Language and Politics 20:6, pp. 873–893 | Article

Contemporary Turkey has gone through many reforms that have been legitimized by country’s historical legacy. The constitutive elements of this legacy are images, historical figures, events, and symbolisms embedded in memory. It is through those elements that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the leader of… read more