Melike Akay
List of John Benjamins publications in which Melike Akay is involved.
Articles
2025 “Then we’re just two dudes driving around”: Stand-up comedians’ exploitation of relational ambiguity in the Uber/Lyft chronotope Journal of Language and Pop Culture 1:2, pp. 226–247 | Article
App-mediated ride sharing services like Uber and Lyft represent a relatively new chronotope that shapes participants’ identities and relationships through specific space and time configurations. Ridesharing services such as these blur the boundaries between what is public/private,… read more
2023 Review of Sadler (2022): Fragmented Narrative: Telling and Interpreting Stories in the Twitter Age Hate Speech in Online Media, Granvik, Anton, Mélanie Buchart and Hartmut Lenk (eds.), pp. 292–297 | Review
Generative artificial intelligence and foreign language learning: L2 teachers’ perceptions of utility and ethics AILA Review: Online-First Articles | Article
Prior studies exploring teachers’ perceptions of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini have signaled tensions between instructors’ perceptions of GenAI’s usefulness and their beliefs regarding its ethicality. The current study furthers this line of… read more