Akademik Makale Başliklarinin Dil Bilimsel Analizi

Yıl 2017, Sayı: 34, 105 - 116, 01.06.2017

Şahru Pilten Ufuk

Öz

Başlık okuyucunun dikkatini çeken, içerik hakkında okuyucuyu bilgilendiren ve okuyucunun yazıyı okuyup okumayacağına karar vermesini büyük ölçüde etkileyen bir unsurdur. Bu özelliğinden ötürü Batı literatüründe son 20 yılda -akademik dergi sayısının giderek artmasına paralel olarak- başlıklarla ilgili çalışmalar da çoğalmıştır. Bu doğrultuda günümüzde metin dil biliminin alt dalları arasında "başlık bilimi"ne de yer verilmesi düşüncesi dile getirilmektedir. Bununla birlikte başlıklar Türk literatüründe fazla çalışılmış konulardan biri değildir. Bu konuda yapılmış olan çalışmalar metin yazım kuralları genelinde değerlendirilebilir. Bu çalışmada ise var olan bu boşluğu doldurmak amacıyla başlıklar dil bilimsel açıdan ele alınmıştır. Bu doğrultuda akademik makalelerde yer alan başlıklar, i uzunluk, ii metin düzenlemesi, iii tür ve iv noktalama kullanımları olmak üzere dört ayrı açıdan incelenmiştir

Anahtar Kelimeler

Makale başlıkları, başlık uzunlukları, başlık türleri, metin düzenlemesi, başlıklarda noktalama

A Linguistic Analysis of the Academic Article Titles

Öz

The title of an article is the element that captures the reader's attention, informs the reader about the content, and greatly influences the reader’s decisions about reading the text or not. Because of this feature particularly in the last 20 years in Western literature - in parallel with the increasing number of academic journals - there have been more studies on the titles. Nowadays, some linguistics are told about "titlelogy" as a lower branch of text linguistics. However, they are not studied much in Turkish context. The previous studies in this context have evaluated the titles in terms of text writing rules. In this present study, the titles were investigated from a linguistic point of view in order to fill this gap. In this respect, the titles of the academic article have been examined from four different perspectives: i length, ii textual organization, iii types and iv punctuation

Anahtar Kelimeler

Article titles, title length, title types, textual organization, punctuation in titles

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