In
this study, grammatical markers of the consepts of between and the mid in
Turkish have been determined through observation and prediction and these
markers were evaluated in terms of structural and semantic features. Structural
analysis was made in terms of whether the markers are words, phrases, sentences
or fixwd expressions, and what are the languages of origin in the markers.
Even though the term “concept analysis” was sometimes used in the study, the
fact that the concept could not be solved has become a general view in
scientific circles. Accordingly, the concepts can be solved semantically only
by dividing them into pieces and through their grammatical markers. Here, the
concepts of between and mid are examined by semic analysis
method and by using Martorella's “concept analysis” model. The strongest
grammatical markers of concepts in Turkish are ara and orta words and their
derivatives. However, concepts can be represented partially and indirectly with
members of other distant or close concept areas (iç “internal”, normal
“normal”, standart “standard”, genel “general”, ılıman “temperate”, kabul
edilebilir “acceptable” etc.). Describing these and similar concepts with some
grammatical markers also gives an idea about the mind structure of a society.
In this study, it has not been determined exactly what the Turks think “in
between” or “in the middle”, but in which context they have created the
concepts of (ın) between and mid(dle) in the context of external world
realities. According to this, Turks can “space” concept pairs of good-bad,
high-low, big-small, new-old, have-none, black-white, more-less,
certain-ambiguous, start-finish, first-end etc. or they can “center” these
pairs of concepts. The “spaced” and “centered” concepts are usually not
quantitave concepts, but qualitative concepts and situations.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Linguistics |
Journal Section | Linguistics |
Authors | |
Publication Date | June 25, 2020 |
Submission Date | May 2, 2020 |
Published in Issue | Year 2020 |