The functional spectrum of the Turkish pragmatic marker Ya
Muhammet Fatih Adıgüzel
The corpus-driven studyexplores the functional spectrum of the Turkish pragmatic marker ya. Including functional, syntactic and collocational discussions, it reveals that ya often functions in the interpersonal domain, reflecting the speaker's usually negative affective stance. The study indicates that ya acts as a reminder of shared knowledge to avoid communication glitches. In the textual/sequential domain, ya is used as a topic initiator, shifter and expander. Its longer form, yaa has an idiosyncratic summative function, signalling topic termination after the speaker has satisfactorily enlightened an issue. At the utterance-medial position, ya marks the preceding segment as a reason clause, often reflecting unfavourable attitudes. In appeal intonation, ya sounds like a marker of ha...
Metaphoric Conceptualization of Love Pain or Suffering in Turkish Songs through Natural Phenomena and Natural Disasters
Muhammet Fatih Adıgüzel
Traditional Turkish love is identified with suffering. This study investigates how suffering in love is metaphorically conceptualized in Turkish via natural phenom ena and disasters. Based on figurative expressions in sad love songs of Arabesque and Art music genres, the study reveals that love pain/suffering is expressed through three salient metaphors: 1) LOVE PAIN/SUFFERING IS NATURAL PHENOMENA,2)LOVE PAIN/SUFFERING IS NATURAL DISASTERS, and 3) the overarching metaphor (the suffering) LOVER’SBODYISALANDSCAPE(affected by weather conditions or natural disasters). It was unearthed from metaphoric expressions in lyrics that as part of a cultural scenario, natural phenomena anddisastersareprofiledasinternalized forces culturally imagined to directly affect vital body parts to expres...