Ruhan Güçlü

Ruhan Güçlü is an Assistant Professor at Gaziantep University in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of English Language and Literature. His academic journey includes a PhD in English Linguistics (2019–2022) and Masters in English Linguistics (2013–2015) from Hacettepe University, where he also earned his Bachelor’s in English Linguistics (2007–2011).

His research spans metadiscourse analysis, contrastive linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Key themes include:

• Metadiscourse in L2 Turkish writing
• Gender-based linguistic differences
• Diachronic evolution of discourse markers
• Word association behaviors
• Turkish language teaching methodologies

Recent publications focus on interactive metadiscourse markers in Turkish and Albanian learners' essays, cognitive stylistic analyses of AI-generated vs. human texts, and diachronic corpus studies of linguistic trends. His work often bridges discourse theory, language education, and cultural reflections in academic writing.

He has taught courses such as Advanced Grammar, Sociolinguistics, and Stylistics at Gaziantep University. Notable projects include a 2015 study on urban/rural Turkish children's word associations and a 2018–2020 TÜBİTAK-funded project on Turkish morphosyntactic constraints.