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The Wernicke Legacy: Deconstructing Language, Madness, and Meaning in Outlast
Image: Wizyta w szpitalu wariatów (Visit to a mental hospital) – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) – CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Wernicke Legacy: Deconstructing Language, Madness, and Meaning in Outlast by Huriye Gül İnal Whether you are familiar with video games or not, you have likely heard about ‘Outlast’. When I was a kid, →
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Neden Dilbilim? – Tercih Dönemi Özel
Semih Safa Balcı, Zişan Ada Çayır Neden Dilbilim – Tercih Dönemi Özel by Semih Safa Balcı & Zişan Ada Çayır Dilbilim Nedir? Dilbilim, kültürün en temel ögelerinden biri olan dil olgusunun her yönünü kendine has yöntemlerle inceleyen oldukça geniş çaplı bir disiplindir. Dilin; gündelik yaşamın, bireylerin ve toplumların tarihî gelişiminin ayrılmaz bir parçası olması, dilbilimi →
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Hardware behind the software: A neurophysiological look at aphasias, speech, and language
İsmail Uzun1, Ali Çağan Kaya2, 31Atatürk University, Faculty of Medicine, Erzurum, Türkiye2Hacettepe University, Department of English Linguistics, Ankara, Türkiye3Ankara University Brain Research Center, Ankara, Türkiye artwork: Cihan Hasan Hardware behind the software: A neurophysiological look at aphasias, speech, and language by İsmail Uzun & Ali Çağan Kaya As linguists, we often focus on the communicative →
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Brief Notes on Intrapersonal Communication
artwork: Cihan Hasan Brief Notes on Intrapersonal Communication by Zişan Ada Çayır When people think about language, they usually focus on either literary works including (but not limited to) poetry, newspaper articles, or communication. As for communication, people lean towards the type of communication between two people which is called interpersonal communication. This focus on →
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When Dreams Speak: The Linguistics Behind Remspace’s Bold Claim
artwork: Zişan Ada Çayır When Dreams Speak by Ekin Akova Dreams have always been a mysterious and fascinating part of human experience, offering glimpses into our subconscious minds, but could they also become a medium for communication? The startup Remspace recently claimed to have developed technology that allows people to interact in real-time within their →
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On the Origin of Language
On The Origin of Language by Ahmet Arda Karabacak In the history of ideas that have tried to explain the origin of language, there have been many hypotheses that could be considered contradictory. I will dive into and analyze just a few of them, such as the ding-dong theory, the discontinuity problem, language readiness, the effects →
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An Essay on Language, Linguistics, and Cats
An Essay on Language, Linguistics, and Cats by Aslı Nur Gözen Anyone who strives to be a linguist should have in their intellectual repertoire some ideas of what linguistics should be like both in its composition and execution, along with a definition of language to guide them in their linguistic endeavors. The current essay claims →