Mersin University Journal of Linguistics and Literature (Mersin Üniversitesi Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi

15-35

Authors: Güner Özcan & Yeşim Aksan

In this study, evet which serves as an interactional marker has been analyzed in terms of tool of pragmatics and conversation analysis. The aim of the study is to unfold the interactional features and functions of evet in the light of data and the quantitative results from Spoken Turkish Corpus. Findings show that evet is used mostly with the approval function and respectively they appear with the agreement, continuation, question-respond and divergence functions and mostly in brief encounters. With the functions in question it is determined that evet is effectively used to maintain the flow of conversation and to compensate it.

61-83

Authors: Hatice Çelebi

Human interaction could be a focus of linguistics or sociology. When it is considered from a social perspective and the data is collected from language, the concepts reflected in language are examined. In such cases, semantic concept mapping plays an essential role. This paper illustrates how through use of corpus linguistic methods and abstraction of proposition-schemas, the semantic mapping of a conceptual phrase studied in research could be constructed. It demonstrates how the concept could be analyzed using the linguistic data and findings could be used to measure a construct, for example in writing scale items. The concept phrase studied in this paper is “intergenerational solidarity,” and the linguistic data have been collected from the Turkish National Corpus-Demo Version (TNC). It is necessary that the concept phrase in Turkish is semantically examined and that the findings are compared with the international literature for studies in which the concept phrase is at the center. Such an approach for such research design seems to be essential.