INVESTIGATION OF THE TEXTS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL 8TH GRADE TURKISH TEXTBOOKS IN TERMS OF CULTURAL LINGUISTICS
Ortaokul 8. Sınıf Türkçe Ders Kitaplarındaki Metinlerin Kültürdilbilimsel Açıdan İncelenmesi

Author : Abdullah GÜNEŞ -Ahmet Turan SİNAN
Number of pages : 235-259

Abstract

Culture is a set of indicators derived from the common memory of a nation. Undoubtedly, language is one of the most important indicators that constitute a large part of this set, and today linguistic analyzes enable us to make a judgement about the cultural phenomena in language. At this point, cultural linguistics is a a newly developing interdisciplinary field which emerged in the 20th century and based it’s basic problem on the language-culture relation and conducting culture analysis through linguistic units. Notwithstanding textbooks are one of the most important and most used materials of education and training, they are also cultural sources consisting of linguistic expressions and pronunciations that can be the subject of linguistic analysis. The aim of this study is to analyze the texts in the 8th grade Turkish textbooks in the framework of cultural linguistics. For this purpose, 32 reading texts in the 8th Grade Turkish textbook which prepared by the Ministry of National Education were included in the study and these texts were analyzed by culture linguistic analysis. In this study, which is in the qualitative research structure, data were collected through document review. The cultural linguistic analysis conducted in this study was limited by the allusion cases. First of all, the special names in the textbook are found and the frequency values are determined, and then the data are classified in terms of the phenomenon of aluusion and vocabulary. According to the findings of the study, the most common of the allusion cases is the words of the allusion.The word of allusion was followed by the name of the allusion, the allusion event, and the allusion text types, respectively. While the most idioms are encountered in the allusion words, the proverbs are the ones with the least number of cases.

Keywords

Language, Culture, Cultural Linguistics, Turkish Textbooks.

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