Çiğdem Sağın-Şimşek
Biographic Data
| ID | 1499040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Çiğdem Sağın-Şimşek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Çiğdem |
| FAMILY NAME | Sağın-Şimşek |
| SIGNATURE | SAĞIN-ŞIMŞEK Ç |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middle East Technical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5234-7546 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“May our language not perish. Our language is our memory.”
This study explores the contemporary status of Laz, an endangered South Caucasian language, exploring factors shaping its vitality within the ethnolinguistic vitality framework. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the research utilizes questionnaires and interviews within Laz-speaking communities. While the questionnaires (n=259) probed vitality-related aspects, the interviews (n=5) offered narrative data, essential for understanding lived experi…
The role of language use and attitudes on language maintenance and heritage identity
Aims and objectives: This study aims to uncover the impact of language use and attitudes of Hemshin people living in the eastern Black Sea region in Türkiye on language maintenance and heritage identity. Methodology: This study utilized an ethnographic approach to fieldwork. Interviews were conducted with two groups of participants ( n = 60) between 2017 and 2021. The participants included speech community members living in Hopa and heritage comm…
Language ideologies and stancetaking in refugee identity negotiations
This study investigates the identity negotiations and language ideologies among/around Syrian refugees residing in Turkey by concentrating on the case of two multilingual, Syrian graduate students who have been forcedly displaced from Syria and resettled in Turkey. The study particularly explores participants’ metalinguistic narratives of their language choices, multilingual repertoires and identity positionings. We argue that everyday talk about…
The production and perception of Turkish evidentiality markers by Turkish-German returnees
The study contributes to research on the development of the heritage language after return to the country of origin and examines whether the ultimate attainment of the heritage grammar after many years of residing in the country of origin brings returnees to a level compatible with that of monolinguals. We focus on the production and perception of evidentiality markers in the heritage Turkish of Turkish-German bilinguals who returned to Turkey af…
The Zone of Ethnolinguistic Social Networking (ZonES) in Khalaj Turkic
Social network and ethnolinguistic vitality have been separately studied in various language constellations with different speech communities and participant profiles so far. However, studies focusing on the interplay between social networks and ethnolinguistic vitality are quite scarce, even though the number of endangered languages is increasing in number. Adopting a mixed-hybrid model involving social network theory and ethnolinguistic vitalit…
Interjections as signals of mutual intelligibility in Turkish-Azeri receptive multilingual communication
Discourse and educational functions of students’ and teachers’ code-switching in EFL classrooms in Turkey
At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface
The aim of this study is to investigate how syntactic and pragmatic features of Turkish word order are acquired by Turkish-English, Turkish-German and Turkish-Russian bilingual children. The data were collected from Turkish monolingual and bilingual children who were born in England, Germany and Russia and acquired Turkish as their heritage language. The findings of the study reveal that the Turkish monolingual children adopt the use of SOV order…
Looking for contact-induced language change
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The aim of the study is to contribute to the debate about a possible contact-induced change in the heritage language and to examine whether there is contact-induced language change at the morpho-syntactic level in Turkish spoken in Germany. We focus on the perception and use of the converbs –Ip and –IncA in heritage Turkish. Design/methodology/approach: The perception and production of the converbs …
A hearer-based analysis of Turkish–Azerbaijani receptive multilingual communication
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: Receptive multilingualism (RM), a mode of multilingual communication in which speakers of different languages use their own native language to communicate and still understand each other, is considered to be a relatively under-investigated area in multilingual research. This paper examines features of Turkish–Azerbaijani RM and, focusing on a hearer-based analysis, looks into strategies applied for …
A corpus-based study of evidentials in the Turkish Cypriot dialect
Testing the impact of formal interpreting training on working memory capacity
The use of verbal morphology in Turkish as a third language
Aims and Objectives: Several studies suggest that third language acquisition (TLA) is marked with complex patterns of language interaction. However, it is not clear yet to what extent multilinguals activate each of their background languages in TLA, as various factors may trigger the activation of one of the previously learnt languages. This study aims to contribute to the discussion by examining the use of verbal morphology in third language (L3…
Russian Immigrant Diaspora in Turkey
Although Turkey houses various immigrant groups, still not much is known about them. To this end, this study aims to initiate a report of a particular group of immigrants residing in Turkey. Specifically, we focus on the language use, preference and attitudes of Russian immigrants in Turkey in the belief that communication processes lie at the heart of the acculturation processes and reflect the degree to which immigrants adapt to the host societ…
Receptive multilingualism in Turkish-Turkmen academic counseling sessions
This study examines a case of receptive multilingual communication in academic counseling sessions with participants of Turkish and Turkmen languages. In particular, the study aims to explore the contribution of linguistic and extralinguistic factors that might facilitate and/or constraint interlocutors' understanding in receptive multilingual communications. To this end, elicited conversations of a Turkish academic advisor and a Turkmen universi…
The impact of a third language on executive control processes
This study aims to investigate whether the representation of a third language in the mind provides an advantage in executive control processes compared to bilinguals. To this end 10 high proficient bilingual Turkish–English and 10 high proficient trilingual Turkish–English–German speakers were given a language control demanding task and participants’ response times (RTs) and the accuracy of their responses were analyzed. The results showed that t…
Receptive multilingualism and language understanding
This article presents an investigation of language understanding within the framework of receptive multilingualism. That Turkish and Azerbaijani are closely related languages within the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages leads to the assumption that Turkish and Azerbaijani are mutually intelligible languages. That is, speakers of these two different languages of Turkic origin can comprehend each other without much difficulty. This article aims …
Language ideologies and stancetaking in refugee identity negotiations
This study investigates the identity negotiations and language ideologies among/around Syrian refugees residing in Turkey by concentrating on the case of two multilingual, Syrian graduate students who have been forcedly displaced from Syria and resettled in Turkey. The study particularly explores participants’ metalinguistic narratives of their language choices, multilingual repertoires and identity positionings. We argue that everyday talk about…
Testing the impact of formal interpreting training on working memory capacity
Russian Immigrant Diaspora in Turkey
Although Turkey houses various immigrant groups, still not much is known about them. To this end, this study aims to initiate a report of a particular group of immigrants residing in Turkey. Specifically, we focus on the language use, preference and attitudes of Russian immigrants in Turkey in the belief that communication processes lie at the heart of the acculturation processes and reflect the degree to which immigrants adapt to the host societ…
Receptive multilingualism and language understanding
This article presents an investigation of language understanding within the framework of receptive multilingualism. That Turkish and Azerbaijani are closely related languages within the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages leads to the assumption that Turkish and Azerbaijani are mutually intelligible languages. That is, speakers of these two different languages of Turkic origin can comprehend each other without much difficulty. This article aims …
Receptive multilingualism in Turkish-Turkmen academic counseling sessions
This study examines a case of receptive multilingual communication in academic counseling sessions with participants of Turkish and Turkmen languages. In particular, the study aims to explore the contribution of linguistic and extralinguistic factors that might facilitate and/or constraint interlocutors' understanding in receptive multilingual communications. To this end, elicited conversations of a Turkish academic advisor and a Turkmen universi…
The impact of a third language on executive control processes
This study aims to investigate whether the representation of a third language in the mind provides an advantage in executive control processes compared to bilinguals. To this end 10 high proficient bilingual Turkish–English and 10 high proficient trilingual Turkish–English–German speakers were given a language control demanding task and participants’ response times (RTs) and the accuracy of their responses were analyzed. The results showed that t…
The use of verbal morphology in Turkish as a third language
Aims and Objectives: Several studies suggest that third language acquisition (TLA) is marked with complex patterns of language interaction. However, it is not clear yet to what extent multilinguals activate each of their background languages in TLA, as various factors may trigger the activation of one of the previously learnt languages. This study aims to contribute to the discussion by examining the use of verbal morphology in third language (L3…
Russian Immigrant Diaspora in Turkey
Although Turkey houses various immigrant groups, still not much is known about them. To this end, this study aims to initiate a report of a particular group of immigrants residing in Turkey. Specifically, we focus on the language use, preference and attitudes of Russian immigrants in Turkey in the belief that communication processes lie at the heart of the acculturation processes and reflect the degree to which immigrants adapt to the host societ…
Testing the impact of formal interpreting training on working memory capacity
A hearer-based analysis of Turkish–Azerbaijani receptive multilingual communication
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: Receptive multilingualism (RM), a mode of multilingual communication in which speakers of different languages use their own native language to communicate and still understand each other, is considered to be a relatively under-investigated area in multilingual research. This paper examines features of Turkish–Azerbaijani RM and, focusing on a hearer-based analysis, looks into strategies applied for …
A corpus-based study of evidentials in the Turkish Cypriot dialect
Looking for contact-induced language change
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The aim of the study is to contribute to the debate about a possible contact-induced change in the heritage language and to examine whether there is contact-induced language change at the morpho-syntactic level in Turkish spoken in Germany. We focus on the perception and use of the converbs –Ip and –IncA in heritage Turkish. Design/methodology/approach: The perception and production of the converbs …
Interjections as signals of mutual intelligibility in Turkish-Azeri receptive multilingual communication
Discourse and educational functions of students’ and teachers’ code-switching in EFL classrooms in Turkey
At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface
The aim of this study is to investigate how syntactic and pragmatic features of Turkish word order are acquired by Turkish-English, Turkish-German and Turkish-Russian bilingual children. The data were collected from Turkish monolingual and bilingual children who were born in England, Germany and Russia and acquired Turkish as their heritage language. The findings of the study reveal that the Turkish monolingual children adopt the use of SOV order…
The Zone of Ethnolinguistic Social Networking (ZonES) in Khalaj Turkic
Social network and ethnolinguistic vitality have been separately studied in various language constellations with different speech communities and participant profiles so far. However, studies focusing on the interplay between social networks and ethnolinguistic vitality are quite scarce, even though the number of endangered languages is increasing in number. Adopting a mixed-hybrid model involving social network theory and ethnolinguistic vitalit…
The production and perception of Turkish evidentiality markers by Turkish-German returnees
The study contributes to research on the development of the heritage language after return to the country of origin and examines whether the ultimate attainment of the heritage grammar after many years of residing in the country of origin brings returnees to a level compatible with that of monolinguals. We focus on the production and perception of evidentiality markers in the heritage Turkish of Turkish-German bilinguals who returned to Turkey af…
Language ideologies and stancetaking in refugee identity negotiations
This study investigates the identity negotiations and language ideologies among/around Syrian refugees residing in Turkey by concentrating on the case of two multilingual, Syrian graduate students who have been forcedly displaced from Syria and resettled in Turkey. The study particularly explores participants’ metalinguistic narratives of their language choices, multilingual repertoires and identity positionings. We argue that everyday talk about…
“May our language not perish. Our language is our memory.”
This study explores the contemporary status of Laz, an endangered South Caucasian language, exploring factors shaping its vitality within the ethnolinguistic vitality framework. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the research utilizes questionnaires and interviews within Laz-speaking communities. While the questionnaires (n=259) probed vitality-related aspects, the interviews (n=5) offered narrative data, essential for understanding lived experi…
The role of language use and attitudes on language maintenance and heritage identity
Aims and objectives: This study aims to uncover the impact of language use and attitudes of Hemshin people living in the eastern Black Sea region in Türkiye on language maintenance and heritage identity. Methodology: This study utilized an ethnographic approach to fieldwork. Interviews were conducted with two groups of participants ( n = 60) between 2017 and 2021. The participants included speech community members living in Hopa and heritage comm…
Linguistics (16 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Turkish (14 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (9 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · German (4 works) · Heritage language (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works)