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(Escher, Drawing Hands)

Research Papers:

"Authenticity and Non-Standard Speech in Great Expectations."  Journal of Victorian Literature and Culture.  forthcoming, 2014

"When We Were Orphans:  Place Identity and Detection."  in Yildiz, Hülya  and Cynthia Wong (eds) Contemporary Critical Insights: Kazuo Ishiguro.   forthcoming 2014

"Old Expectations".  Septet.  forthcoming July/August 2013

"The Speech and Silences of Orientals in Conrad’s Malay Novels" in Acheraiou, A and N. İçöz (eds) Conrad and the Orient.  Eastern and Western Perspectives (Series),  East European Monographs, Boulder and Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press, Lublin, 2012;263-301

"Authenticating Science and Literature in England 1665-1800: The Epistolary Mode." Littera Edebiyat Yaziları. Vol XXIX, December 2011; 215-227

"Voices from Nowhere: Speakers from Other Times and Countries in Three of Jeanette Winterson's Books" in Sönmez, Margaret J-M. and Mine Özyurt Kılıç (eds) Winterson Narrating Time and Space.  Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009; 98-120

"A Study of Request Markers in English Family Letters from 1623 to 1660European Journal of  English Studies, No 9. vol. 1. April 2005; 9-19 

“The Language of Modern Literature in English” in  Ian McKean (ed) The Essentials of   Literature in English, post-1914. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005; 178-185.

"Archaisms in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in Cardiff Corvey. Vol IX no 2,  http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/corvey/articles/cc09_n02.html

“The Influence of Early English Monolingual Dictionaries and Wordlists on the Standardisation of English Spelling”. Anglia – Zeitschrift fur Englische Philologie 119 (2001), 207-231.

“Oaths, Exclamations and Selected Discourse Markers in Three Genres”,   European Journal of English Studies,  Special Issue on Early Modern English Text Types, ed Lilo Moessner. vol 5, No. x.,2001; 151-165. For links to abstract and online version see [PDF] 5/2 p.151-165 Sonmez

“Spelling Errors in the Writings of Upper Intermediate Foreign Learners of English: Theory and a Quantitative Analysis”.  Eğitim ve Bilim/Education and Science. Vol 26, No 120, April 2001; 71-76

“Perceived and Real Differences between Men’s and Women’s Spellings of the Early to mid-Seventeenth-century”; in The History of English in a Social Context.  Edited by Kastovsky, Dieter and Arthur Mettinger.  [Trends in Linguistics] Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.  2000; 405-439

“Movement in Milton’s Shorter Poems” in A selection of Studies in Memory of Seyfi Karabaş. Eds Prof Dr Deniz Zeyrek and Doc Dr Sukriye Ruhi.  Ankara:  Department of Foreign  Language Education, METU, 2000;  219-231

Published conference presentations:

"Rushdie and the Postcolonial Language Debate: Comparing Shalimar and Kim"  Salman Rushdie and His Work (Proceedings of the 20th METU British Novelists Conference).Ed. Dr Öztabak Avcı, Elif.  METU 2013 forthcoming

"Intercultural Silence"  in Proceedings of a Seminar on the Language Sciences (Antalya, 3-4 Nisan, 2008). Ed. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Yalcin.  Antalya: Akdeniz University (forthcoming)

"Evaluating the foreignness of foreign speech in English prose fiction: Towards a scale of affective devices" in Ulusararası VII Dil, Yazın, Deyişbilim Sempozyumu (02-05 Mayıs 2007), I. Cilt (Konya: Selçuk Üniversitesi, 2007); 387-395.

"Visual Ventriloquism in Finnegans Wake" in James Joyce and His Work (Proceedings of the 12th METU British Novelists Seminar) ed. Prof. Meral Çileli; METU 2006; 61-74.

 "D.H. Lawrence's Language of Real Men?  Style and Dialect Shifting in The White Peacock and Lady Chatterly's Lover" in D. H. Lawrence and His Work (Proceedings of the 11th METU British Novelists Seminar) ed. Dr. Nurten Birlik; METU 2004; 31-46

"Conrad's novels:  Truth and Nostromo"    in Joseph Conrad and his Works (Proceedings of the 10th METU British Novelists Seminar) eds Dr Nesrin Eruysal and Bengu Taskesen, METU, 2004;105-113

“Endings, Atheism, and Autobiographical ‘I’s in John Fowles’ novels. John Fowles and his Works (Proceedings of the 8th METU British Novelists Seminar) eds Dr Durrin Alpakin Martinez-Caro and Bengu Taskesen, 2003; 19-26

“Message in a bottle: Archaism and the Illusion of a Distant Oral Past in The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner”.in Rewriting in/and English. Proceedings of the 22nd All-Turkey English Literature Conference. Selcuk University and The British Council,  2001; 169-182

“The Language of Disjunctive Holism” in Virginia Woolf and Her Works (Proceedings of the 5th METU British Novelists Series).  Ed.  Doc. Dr. Sevda Caliskan.  Ankara: Department of Foreign Language Education, METU, 1998; 53-69  

“Saying what you mean and meaning what you say” in Doris Lessing and Her Works (Proceedings of the 4th METU British Novelists Series.  Ed Prof Dr Nail Bezel, Assoc. Prof. Dr Ünal Norman and Pınar Uşşaklı. Ankara: Department of Foreign Language Education, METU, 1997;   125-138  

Review Articles:  

Anabel Patterson  Milton’s Words.  In English Studies, Volume 94 Issue 2,  March 2013 pp 242-244 

Nigel Smith Is Milton Better than Shakespeare.  In English Studies, Volume 92 Issue 3,  May 2011; 347-348

Louis Schwarz  Milton and Maternal Mortality.  In English Studies, Volume 91 Issue 7, November 2010, 795-796 

Kaplan, Carola M., Peter Lancelot Mallios and Andrea White (eds). Conrad in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives.  New York: Routledge, 2005. In In-Between, Vol 14, No.2.  September 2005.

"Networks, Generations, and the Autonomy of the Individual speaker" (review of Bergs) in Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics No. 5, 2005. (HSL_SLHreviews)

Bergs, Alexander, Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics  Studies in Morphosyntactic Variation in the Paston Letters  (1421-1503) [Topics in English Linguistics, 51] Mouton de Gruyter: 2005. In  LINGUIST List, 16.2367, 11th August 2005. 16-2367.html

Curzan, Anne and Emmons, Kimberly, Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations [Topics in English Linguistics 45] Mouton de Gruyter: 2004 In Linguist List 16.520, Tuesday 21st February 2005.Studies in the History of the English Language II

"Why read Conrad now?" in In-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism. 2004, Vol. 13, No. 2; 163-171

Hiltunen, Risto and Skaffari, Janne, Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to modern, John Benjamins, 2004 in LINGUIST List 15.2512, Friday September 10th 2004. Discourse Perspectives on English

Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas Jucker, eds.  Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002,  In LINGUIST List, 8th November 2003 Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems

Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg.  Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change  in Tudor and Stuart England.  London: Longman, 2003.  In Historical                           Sociolinguistics  and  Sociohistorical Linguistics, No 3, September 2003 Historical Sociolinguistics- Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England

Vivien Law.  The History of Linguistics in Europe from Plato to 1600.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. in LINGUIST List No. 14.2013, July 25, 2003 The History of Linguistics in Europe from Plato to 1600

J. K. Chambers.  Sociolinguistic Theory. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Polity Press, 2003.  in Linguist List No. 14.1242,  May 2, 2003.     LINGUIST List 14.1242- Sociolinguistics- Chambers (2003)

Laurel J. Brinton. (ed.)  Historical Linguistics 1999.  Selected Papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001). LINGUIST List No. 13.309, Brinton, L., ed. (2001) Historical Linguistics 1999

Robert McColl Millar.  System Collapse System Rebirth.  The Demonstrative Pronouns of English 900-1300 and the Birth of the Definite Article. (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2000)  in Journal of Linguistics38/2, 2002; 448-450  [Cambridge Journals Online - PDF]

Carter, Ronald & John McRae, The Routledge History of Literature in English (New York: Routledge, 2001).  LINGUIST List 12.2552, October 12, 2001 LINGUIST List 12.2552- Carter & McRae, Routledge History of ...

Joan C. Beal.  English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century.  Thomas Spence’s Grand Repository of the English Language.  (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999) in Journal of Linguistics 36/3, 2000. Cambridge Journals Online - Issue Toc  

“Summary of papers presented in ESSE-5 Seminar on Historical Pragmatics” in SLIN (Storia della Lingua Inglese) No. 25, November 2000; 7-10  

Editing:

Sönmez, Margaret J-M., Seda Coşar, Buket Dogan, Aslı Kutluk and Seda Örmengül (eds). Jane Austen and Her Work. Proceedings of the 18th METU British Novelists Conference, 16-17 December, 2010

Sönmez, Margaret J-M.and Mine Özyurt Kılıç (eds), Winterson Narrating Time and Space.  Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,  2009

Sönmez, Margaret J-M. and Funda Basak Basar (eds), Jeanette Winterson and Her Work. Proceedings of the 14th METU British Novelists Conference, 14-15 December, 2006.  Department of FLE, METU,2007

Sönmez, Margaret J-M. (ed),George Eliot and Her Work.  Proceedings of the Seventh METU British Novelists Seminar, 11-12 March, 1999.  Ankara: Department of FLE, METU, 1999

Other:

"Brilliana Harley" (permanant bibliography page) in Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics.  SHL/SLH Brilliana Harley page

Unpublished conference papers:

"Intercultural Silence"  in Proceedings of a Seminar on the Language Sciences (Antalya, 3-4 Nisan, 2008). Ed. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Yalcin.  Antalya: Akdeniz University

"Untranslatable"  [A 40 minute presentation concerning Formulaic utterances in Turkish and English.  Annually, sometimes bi-annually presented  to the 1st and 2nd year cadets and their teachers]. Ankara, Harp Okulu, 2006-present (2013)

"German Voices in English Novels of World War I" [A 30 minute presentation to staff and student of the Foreign Language Education department] Kayseri: Erciyes University, April 2008

"Literature in Language Teaching" [A 30 minute presentation for the teachers and students of the Department of Foreign Language Education] Ankara, Ufuk University, April 2008.

"History of English Through Words" [A 40 minute presentation for the teachers and 2nd year cadets] Ankara, Harp Okulu, October 2007

"German Voices in English Novels of World War I: The Case of D. H. Lawrence" 2nd International IDEA Conference: Studies in English. Ankara:  Hacettepe University, 17-19 April 2007

"Army Slang" [A 40 minute presentation for the teachers and 4th year cadets. Annually, sometimes bi-annually presented]. Ankara, Harp Okulu, 2006-2013] Ankara, Harp Okulu, March 2007- present (2013).

"A (Very) Short History of English" [A 30 minute presentation presented to students and staff of Ufuk University, Department of Foreign Language Education.  Spring Semester, 2008

 "Coleridge's 'Frost at Midnight': A Close Reading".  Guest lecture to Department of Foreign Language Education, Konya: Selcuk University, 1995

“Milton and the Baroque”,  Cultural Encounters Seminar series.  METU, 1994           

“Communication in The Inheritors”  William Golding and His Works. The 2nd METU British Novelists Seminar,  Ankara: METU, 1994 

Membership of editorial boards

 I am on the reviewing board of the following journals:  Hacettepe Universitesi Edebiyat Fakultesi Dergisi ,  Journal of British Literature and Culture (Hacettepe University Faculty of Letters), Littera.

 I am the English Language Editor of (Science Citation Index listed journal:) Yerbilimleri (Earth sciences) [Hacettepe üniversitesi yerbilimleri uygulama ve araştirma merkezi (yuvam) dergisi/ Journal of the earth sciences application and research centre of Hacettepe University] (Since 2005)

 I am the English Language Editor of the Türk Jeoloji Bülteni: Geological Bulletin of Turkey (Since 2007)

On the editorial board for A selection of Studies in Memory of Seyfi Karabaş, Ankara: Department of Foreign Language Education, METU, 2000

I was English Language Editor of Eğitim ve Bilim/Education and Science from 1998-2002

Conference Organization 

Member of the organizing and reviewing committee for the 2nd International Literature and Science Symposium ( November 2011)organized by Ankara University, Department of Western Languages and Literatures

Organizer of "Jane Austen and Her Works. The 18th  METU British Novelists Conference". Ankara: METU; 16th-17th December 2010

Organizer of "Jeanette Winterson and Her Works. The 12th METU British Novelists Conference" Ankara: METU, 14th-15th December, 2006.

 Co-convenor of the “Letters and Letter Writing” Seminar,  Module S49 of the 6th ESSE Conference. Strasbourg, 30th August - 3rd December, 2002.

 Member of the organizing committee for the 21st All-Turkey English Literature Conference, METU, Spring 2000

Organizer of "George Eliot and Her Work. The 7th METU British Novelists Conference". Ankara: METU, 11th-12th March, 1999.