A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF TURKS’ VIEWS ON THE CONCEPT OF MIGRATION
TÜRKLERİN GÖÇ KAVRAMINA BAKIŞI ÜZERİNE DERLEM TABANLI BİR İNCELEME

Author : Şahru PİLTEN-UFUK
Number of pages : 17-31

Abstract

Migration is a phenomenon with different components and multidimensional effects. It is a phenomenon that almost every nation experienced from different directions. As a matter of fact, Turks are among these nations. Turks have experienced the phenomenon of migration both as “migrant” and “landlord”. The immigration adventure of the Turks started with the Ergenekon. Currently, migration of individuals or communities persists, because of economic, social, political and geographical reasons. Turkish lands have also received immigration from other nations throughout the history for similar reasons. In the migration process, the familiar places and persons are abandoned. There is movement to different and unknown places. Material and spiritual difficulties are inevitable for migration. However, as seen in many Turkish proverbs, in ancient Turkish culture the concept of migration is not seen as negative. Also in Classical Turkish literature there are many couplets that support this mobility and reveal the beauty of migration. What about the immigration perception of Turkey Turks in 21st century? The main purpose of this paper is to answer this research question. In this respect, the word of göç is examined as sample of basic MIGRATION words in Turkey Turkish, with corpus linguistics methods.

Keywords

Concept of Migration, Semantic Prosody, Corpus Linguistics, Semantics

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