Dedem Korkut Kitabi’nin Yazildiği Gibi Okunmasi Ve Sözlü Formül Kurami
Reading the Book of Dedem Korkut as it Was Written and Oral Formulaic Hypothesis

Summary/Abstract: Until today, the book of Dedem Korkut has been dealt with in terms of language, culture and history. However, an important subject that will influence reading process of the text, and accordingly all those researches to be made depending on the text has been ignored. This subject includes both ignoring the characteristics of oral culture and evaluating the text via text-based approaches. Such evaluations and readings demonstrate the text as an incorrect copy. Whereas, it has been established by us that the elements in the book of Dedem Korkut building especially the verses and patterns are not exactly the same, and that an element replaces another. In the translation studies over the book of Dedem Korkut, it is observed that the variant word couples such as hanım-canım, umud-umur are fallen into a rut due to misspelling. In fact, when oral authoring conditions are taken into consideration, it is clear that these structures were not written falsely. In oral narratives, the narration process takes place directly by recalling as there is not any text to read from. During this phase, memorizing certain patterns technique is used. Any word that does not disrupt the syllable count, rhythmic structure and meaning can be used in the narrative. The patterns mentioned above are widely utilized in the book of Dedem Korkut. For this reason, we are of the opinion that researchers must follow a different path in transcriptions of the book of Dedem Korkut. In our study, with the light of “oral formulaic hypothesis”, it is supported that the patterns once thought to be wrongly-written in the book of Dedem Korkut are correctly-written, and they must be transferred into the transcriptions as written.

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