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- Project Name: Discourse Analysis in Controversial Periods of Turkey
- Dataset: Grand National Assembly of Turkish Parliament Transcripts 1920-2015
- Research Objectives:
The linguistic and rhetorical shifts in parliamentary speeches during and around critical historical periods, such as the 1960 and 1980 military coups in Turkey.
- Turkish military memorandums: 1971, 1979, 1997, 2007.
- Questions:
- How political narratives adapt to periods of crisis?
- The influence of the military on politics in Turkey’s parliamentary history.
- How language reflects power dynamics, social tensions.
- How the contexts of words such as “democracy,” “constitution,” and “army,” “security” changed before, during, and after the period.
- What concepts come to the fore in the conversations before and after the coup?
- Methodology:
- Pre-Coup:
- For example, 1957-1960 for the 1960 coup.
- 1977-1980 for the 1980 coup.
- Post-Coup:
- For example, 1961-1965 after the 1960 coup.
- 1983-1987 after the 1980 coup.
- Pre-Coup:
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