Melike Akay
List of John Benjamins publications for which Melike Akay plays a role.
Articles
2024 “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: Online-First Articles | 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