ISSN: 1308-6200 | Publisher: Kültür Ajans 

Karadeniz International Scientific Journal

This is an internationally refereed social science journal that is published every three months (quarterly) in electronic-based and print-based since 2009. The journal publishes four issues each year (March, June, September, and December).

The publication language of this journal is Turkish, English, or Russian.

This is an open-access journal. Therefore, all issues and articles published so far can be accessed free of charge from the journal's website.

 

Issue 12
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REFLECTION OF THE ORAL TRADITION ON LANGUAGE IN IHSAN OKTAY ANAR'S NOVELS

Emin Erdem ÖZBEK

Ihsan Oktay Anar is one of the remarkable and popular authors of Turkish novel's last period. His novels have impressions from traditional narratives in terms of fiction and narrative techniques. This aspect reveals some features which is belong to oral traditon in author's language. In this study, the effects of the features coming from oral tradition on author's language are anlalysed. In the study, firstly, relation between his novels and old narrative traditions is mentioned and then, in this context his novels are examined in terms of sentence constructions and various expressions. Author's novels are examined in terms of using non-sentence parts, appositive parts, adjectival constructions and anomalous usings in grammar rules, as a result it is decided that all the features which are identified in the study are related to oral culture.

Key Words: Ihsan Oktay Anar, oral culture, postmodernism, language

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