Selman Ecevit
selmanecevit.bsky.social
Selman Ecevit
@selmanecevit.bsky.social
political communication, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics with an added interest in multimodality.
Research assistant @ MEF University - ELT Department
MA in Foreign Language Ed. @ Boğaziçi University
BA in ELT @ Marmara University
İstanbul.
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My MA thesis titled "Discursive construction of the hegemonic power: The Turkish president on panel interviews" is available on Researchgate: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HEGEMONIC POWER: THE TURKISH PRESIDENT ON TELEVISED PANEL INTERVIEWS
PDF | Conflicting with the journalistic notions of neutrality and accountability, political interviews in Turkey, especially in the last decade, turned... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
www.researchgate.net
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10 years ago : blockchain is the future of banking. if you don't understand you're an idiot

5 years ago : you're a dumbass if you dont get in on the ground level of the nft-do-not-copy.jpg

Now : you don't understand the stock market. NVIDIA can only grow until it's the only company in the world
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Preparations are in full swing and we look forward to welcoming everyone in Groningen soon for #12ICOM:
12th International Conference on Multimodality
29-31 October 2025, House of Connections, Groningen
bit.ly/12ICOM
Watch our website for the full program to be online soon!
September 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
EN (TR below) Last month I had the honor of hosting Erdem Aydemir from İstinye University as a guest speaker for the Oral Communication course that I co-teach this semester. His work on micro-aggressions and code-switching classroom discourse was a valuable contribution to the discussion of ++
May 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The Language-on-the-Move #ReadingChallenge 2025 just dropped. Check it out and join us for a year of reading in linguistic diversity in social life
www.languageonthemove.com/language-on-...
Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2025
Each year, I survey my Literacies students about their reading and writing activities. Over the years, the time these young people spend on literacy activities has been increasing steadily. In 2024…
www.languageonthemove.com
December 26, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Vale William Labov.

Inspired by a colleague on X, I think my favourite Bill Labov quote is:

“I have resisted the term *sociolinguistics* for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.”

Thank you for everything, Bill.
December 18, 2024 at 9:14 AM
This wednesday I had the privilege of attending Dr. Yeliz Demir's talk based on the 2023 paper she co-authored on argumentation strategies and political apologies. It was a fascinating read and so was the talk. Thanks to @bulingboun.bsky.social for hosting this great event!
November 22, 2024 at 12:36 PM
A very cool array of people from a variety of backgrounds, engaged in very interesting strands of research! Also it has me.
OK, here it is:

the starter pack to get to know the #multimodalists on Bluesky.

Who is missing?

go.bsky.app/QPLSxuX
November 19, 2024 at 8:24 PM
My MA thesis titled "Discursive construction of the hegemonic power: The Turkish president on panel interviews" is available on Researchgate: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HEGEMONIC POWER: THE TURKISH PRESIDENT ON TELEVISED PANEL INTERVIEWS
PDF | Conflicting with the journalistic notions of neutrality and accountability, political interviews in Turkey, especially in the last decade, turned... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
www.researchgate.net
November 19, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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If only scholarly publications came with a short synopsis of the paper right up front, written by the authors to highlight the important and salient points of the study.

We could give it a nifty name, like "abstract".
Well I'm sure this won't negatively impact the idea of scholarship as a shared collective endeavour to better understand the world.
November 4, 2024 at 3:51 PM