Sıla Gen successfully defended her PhD thesis
Monday 7 September, Sıla successfully defended her PhD thesis “Metaphors in Uzbek” (Özbekçede Metaforlar) at Cukurova University. Prof. Dr. Deniz Abik from Cukurova University was the supervisor of her thesis. She spend one year of her dissertation project at the Metaphor Lab Amsterdam under the supervision of Prof. dr. Gerard Steen. She examined the conceptual metaphors in Uzbek literary texts. Findings of the study show that conceptual metaphors are grounded in cultural, daily or bodily experiences; novel metaphors are merely used in Uzbek literary texts; and metaphors in Uzbek are in accordance with metaphors in Chinese and English.
Congratulations, Sıla!