Başlık ve Noktalama: Akademik Makale Başlıkları Üzerine Art Zamanlı Bir Dil Bilim İncelemesi

Yıl 2017, Cilt: 12 Sayı: 1, 255 - 279, 15.04.2017

Şahru Pilten Ufuk

https://doi.org/10.17550/akademikincelemeler.286737

Öz

Başlıklar bir akademik makalenin en çok okunan bölümüdür. Yayınların
ulaşılabilirliğine/seçilebilirliğine olumlu ya da olumsuz etki yapma gücüne
sahiptir. Bu özelliği akademik camiada başlıklara verilen önemi arttırmıştır.
Nitekim 20. yüzyılın son çeyreğinden itibaren başlayan çalışmalarla Batı
literatüründe başlıklarla ilgili muazzam bir literatür oluşturulmuştur. Öyle ki
günümüzde “başlık bilim” olarak adlandırılan bir alandan söz edilmeye
başlanmıştır. Bununla birlikte başlıklar Türk literatüründe fazla çalışılmış
konulardan biri değildir.

Bu çalışmada 1937-2016 yılları arasında Türkiye Türkçesiyle yazılmış
tarih alanındaki akademik makale başlıklarında noktalama işareti kullanımları
derlem tabanlı, art zamanlı bir bakış açısıyla incelenmiştir. Bulgulardan
hareketle akademik makalelerdeki noktalama işareti kullanımının bireysel bir
tutum mu yoksa dönemsel bir eğilim mi olduğu sorgulanmış, dönemler arasındaki benzerlikler
ve farklılıklar ortaya koyulmuştur. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

başlık, noktalama, akademik makale başlıkları, tarih konulu akademik makale başlıkları, dil bilim

Title and Punctuation: A Diachronic Linguistic Analysis on Academic Article Titles

Öz

Titles are the most read section of an academic article. They have the power to make a positive or negative effect on the availability / selectivity of publications. Those features have increased the importance given to the titles in academia. As a matter of fact, a vast literature on titles has been produced in Western literature with studies starting from the last quarter of the 20th century. So much so that nowadays a field called “titlelogy” has begun to be mentioned. However, the titles are not one of the more studied topics in Turkish literature. In this study, the use of punctuation marks in academic article titles in the field of history written in Turkey Turkish between 1937-2016 has been investigated from a diachronic, corpus based point of view. From the findings it has been questioned whether the use of punctuation marks in academic titles is an individual attitude or a periodic tendency and similarities and differences of the periods are revealed

Anahtar Kelimeler

Titles, Punctuation, Academic Article Titles, Titles of Academic Articles in History, Linguistics Titlelogy

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