Selman Ecevit

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

12ICOM conference poster

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!

++ özellikle İngilizce kullanılan eğitim kurumlarındaki dil dersleri bağlamında çok değerli katkılar sağladı. Çok teşekkürler Erdem Hocam!

TR- Geçtiğimiz ay İstinye Üniversitesinden Erdem Aydemir hocamızı Oral Communication dersimizde misafir konuşmacı olarak ağırlamaktan mutluluk duyuyorum. Sınıf söylemindeki mikro-agresiflik ve kod-değiştirme üzerine çalışması, çokdilliliğin güç ve kimlik ile ilişkisi hakkındaki tartışmaya ++

++ multilingualism and its relation to power and identity in language classrooms, especially in EMI contexts. Thank you Erdem Hocam!

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 ++

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…

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-...

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.

The stage of Albert Long Hall of Boğaziçi University, the title slide that is projected on the curtain reads: "Politik özürden kaçınmak içi başvurulan stratejik manevralar", translates to "Strategic maneuvers used to avoid political apologies".

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!

A very cool array of people from a variety of backgrounds, engaged in very interesting strands of research! Also it has me.

Alternatively, it is also accessible on Turkish Council of Higher Education's (YÖK) Thesis Center, with thesis number 888836.

(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...

My MA thesis titled "Discursive construction of the hegemonic power: The Turkish president on panel interviews" is available on Researchgate: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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".