The rhetorical question is a question sentence used for purposes such as to excite, persuasion, astonishment, entertaining and implicit speech. The answer to the rhetorical questions is not expected, it may not be the addressee of the question or the answer to the question is already known. In this article, the rhetorical question phrases in some works written in the old Anatolian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkey Turkish periods, starting from the Köktürk, Uyghur Turkish and Karahanli Turkish periods, are classified according to their meaning. In order not to exceed the article frame, the number of works was limited and at least one work from each period was scanned. All rhetorical question phrases collected as data could not be included in the article and examples with more distinctive character were preferred over others. These compiled sentences were examined on the basis of in-text and non-text elements and classified according to their meaning. In determining meaning in text, the effects of meaning determiners and modality elements on the meaning of the sentence were studied. In non-text context analysis, pragmatics-speech theories have been used. There is no doubt that this article is not in the scope of explaining the full range of rhetorical question sentences in the Turkish language. As a result, rhetorical question sentences in these works have been seen to have a wide area of meaning.In this context, it has been suggested that the wider inclusion of rhetorical question sentences in the meaning characteristics of sentence types relative to their meaning would be beneficial in Turkish grammar studies. For more wide explanations on rhetorical question sentences in Turkish language, monographic studies related to period and work are needed.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Language Studies |
Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | December 22, 2020 |
Acceptance Date | July 16, 2020 |
Published in Issue | Year 2020 Issue: 4 |