This study presents a summary of the works that have the opportunity to examine the topics discussed by Edward Said in his book on Orientalism and his various appraches deal with them with a critical point of view, and more specifically Wael Hallaq's Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge. The work, which deals with important debates on the historical construction...
Modern Arab theater first emerged in Lebanon as it is the country that has the most contact with the West among Arab countries. However, due to the conditions of the period, theater art had the opportunity to develop in Egypt and spread to Syria and Lebanon through Egypt. Among the Arab countries, names such as Mârûn al-Nakkâsh in Lebanon, Ahmad Abû Khalîl al-Qabbânî in Syria and...
Humour and literature periodicals have reflected the literary atmosphere of the period in which they had published through the filter of humour and used the guidance of humour while keeping the pulse of literature. These newspapers and magazines, in which writers and poets published their humorous works, have continued to exist as entertaining and alternative resources for the...
İffet (1896) and Son Arzu (1918) are two novels of Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar, whose ends with tragedy. The novels end with the death of two young girls, İffet and Nuruyezdan, whose main characters are educated and virtuous according to their times. Both works are based on real life stories. Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar explains in the preface of the work that he is one of the heroes of...
One of the young writers of contemporary Turkish storytelling, B. Nihan Eren's short story book, Sleeping in the Blind Window, consists of twenty stories that have been constructed with consciousness and are tightly connected to each other. The stories in the book, which consists of two parts named "Night" and "Day", take place in a common time and place. Stories built on the...
The concept of gender that has gained wide expansions with the emergence of feminist movements; It refers to the transformation of a person into masculinity and femininity by being shaped with certain roles at the social level from the moment he is born. The conflict and adaptation environment that the individual lives in depending on the identity models he / she carries and...
In this study, the origin determination of the words kamping, kanyon, kargo, kateter, komodor, kompleks, konteyner and kovboy is examined. For this reason, first of all, what is written in some dictionaries about the words in question was looked at, and their origin data were reviewed. Subsequently, the origins and meanings of these words in various Turkish dictionaries were...
The Book of Dede Qorqut is one of the most important works of Turkish language and history. The vocabulary of The Book of Dede Qorkut also reveals important results in terms of revealing the cultural and linguistic characteristics of its period. The fact that the corpora prepared by digitizing the historical texts bring new perspectives to the grammatical features as well as...
With the increase of femicides, news about femicides is also covered intensely in the media. The positioning and representation of femicides, which are a social problem, in the media constitutes the main subject of this study. In this context, this study aims to reveal the language and discourse practices in the presentation of femicide news. Accordingly, the example of Pınar...
Individuals want to learn a second language for various reasons such as education, trade, tourism and marriage. In this regard, they tend to learn the target language with their own means or opportunities such as scholarships/projects. This study includes the evaluation of the summer school project named “The Turkish Language Caravan of the Silk Road" in terms of outputs and...
The word üze, which is used as the adverb of place and the final preposition, has been discussed in historical Turkish dialects. Based on the old Turkish inscriptions in which the word was used in a simple way, the root and additional discussions of the researchers about the word, and the issues of reading and interpretation were briefly addressed. The main subject of this...
The aim of this study is to linguistically explain orientation metaphors used in Turkish proverbs and to lay bare the details of time-space conceptualisation in Turkish thought. Generally speaking, metaphor is defined as a concept acquiring meaning through another; in other words, it denotes thinking of something through another thing. Metaphors have been handled under 3 headings...
One feature of dictionaries is to give the incremental development of the word header. Diachronism is a concept that is used to determine the correct meaning and structure in the language, according to the need, before the current. While it is the method used to learn the meanings of words in which synonyms are used in dictionaries; Diachronism, on the other hand, is a broader...
People mark all of the abstract or concrete concepts that they see, develop and reach in the geography they live on with words / phrases and thus the languages and vocabulary of languages emerge. Within the vocabulary of a language, color and color perception are not perceived only physically, biologically and chemically. Cultures also attribute different meanings to colors and...
Nouns are words that meet all living and non-living beings and enable us to express them. Nouns can be rooted or derived with some suffix-like construction suffixes. Noun-derived construction suffixes are handled in two groups, namely nouns from nouns and nouns from verbs. The affixes that derive nouns from the verb are the affixes used to make nouns from the verb root and stem...
Plural forms have an important place in Turkish language as well as in world languages. One of the ways to classify objects or concepts in language is the pluralitiy category. Plurality in Turkish language; Words that contain a plurality in terms of meaning can be made with plural suffixes and repeating names in simple or using some case suffixes, that is, with adverbs and number...
Covid 19 pandemic which occured on March 2020, changed the traditional lifestyle in a visible way. In order to maintain the social distance, educational activities have been executed via television or online platforms synchronous/asynchronous. In this matter, it has been focused on using distant education on foreigners
In teaching on argumentative texts in schools, critical thinking processes have been utilized. This is because the concept of critical thinking involves processes such as discussion, questioning, and evaluation. Argumentative texts enable individuals to think, question and make inferences on the opinions put forward about certain issues. This situation also indicates the...
Teaching Turkish as a foreign language to children is a field that develops rapidly with the increasing need. Turkish learning materials for children are limited in Turkey and different places in the world. Due to the nature of working with children, it is important to offer them diverse and entertaining materials. Apart from textbooks, story books and stories stand out as...
Turks who lived a nomadic life for many years beared a mobile social identity as a natural consequence of this lifestyle. We can track it down with the written findings that show Turkish started to interact with neighboring languages by being affected from this mobility since the Uygurs period. This interaction, which started in the period of Uygurs, when Turkish encountered...
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Language teaching is one of the important tools of cultural globalization. Because language is both a component of culture and a means of transfer. In this context, teaching Turkish as a foreign language seems to be an appropriate tool for the internationalization of Turkish culture. It is aimed to determine foreign students knowledge and awareness of our cultural elements in the...
Although technological developments have brought diversity to educational activities, textbooks used in mother tongue teaching continue to be important all over the world. These books continue to develop by being rearranged with all kinds of innovations. However, mother tongue teaching textbooks vary in structures and perspectives from country to country, from language to...
Turkish is one of the most widely learned/taught languages in the world as a foreign language. The increase in demand also increases the need for instructors and academicians to train them. For this reason, it is very important to provide a professional identity to postgraduate programs in teaching Turkish to speakers of other languages as well as founding them. To establish a...
Idioms are lexical items that reflect the historical background, lifestyle, material and spiritual cultural values of a nation. Idioms are a subject of high importance in the field of teaching Turkish as a foreign language. Learning the language of a nation is possible with the correct use of the expressions of that language. Therefore, for effective and healthy communication, it...