Idiom studies in the last decade: A bibliometric mapping of research traces based on web of science

Dr. Nurbanu Korkmaz is a faculty member at Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University. Having completed her graduate studies and served as a research assistant in the Department of English Linguistics at Hacettepe University, Dr. Korkmaz’s primary research interests revolve around cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics (speech production and comprehension), and pragmatics. Her research focuses on the complex interplay between language and cognition. Most notably, within the framework of figurative language comprehension, her empirical studies on how young adults with Down Syndrome process Turkish idioms shed light on the semantic processing mechanisms of neurocognitively atypical populations. Furthermore, she conducts research on the metaphor-based conceptualization of "science and scientists" within the scope of Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory, alongside sociolinguistic investigations into compliment responses in Turkish across variables of academic status and gender. Ultimately, Dr. Korkmaz's work provides valuable insights into the cognitive constraints of language and how these constraints manifest in socio-pragmatic environments.