Graduate Associate
busracan[at]yorku.ca
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, York University
Research Keywords:
Turkish; language attitudes; language policies; linguistic oppression; minority languages
Research Region(s):
West Asia
Busra Tasdemir is a PhD candidate at York University specializing in sociolinguistics. Her research focuses on accent discrimination, language ideologies, and sociophonetic variation, with a particular emphasis on Kurdish-accented Turkish in Turkiye (formerly Turkey) and in the diaspora, including Canada and Europe. She also investigates language policies in Western Asia and the Middle East, minority languages, and the intersection of minority language rights and oppression through language. Her work employs methods such as fieldwork, matched-guise surveys, and phonetic analysis to examine linguistic differentiation and its social and political implications.