Reflectıon Of The Oral Tradıtıon On Language In Ihsan Oktay Anar’s Novels Cover Image

İhsan Oktay Anar’ın Romanlarında Sözlü Geleneğin Dile Yansıması
Reflectıon Of The Oral Tradıtıon On Language In Ihsan Oktay Anar’s Novels

Author(s): Emin Erdem ÖZBEK
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Kültür Ajans Tanıtım ve Organizasyon
Keywords: Ihsan Oktay Anar; oral culture; postmodernism; language.

Summary/Abstract: Ihsan Oktay Anar is one of the remarkable and popular authors of Turkish novel’s last period. His novels have impressions from traditional narratives in terms of fiction and narrative techniques. This aspect reveals some features which is belong to oral traditon in author’s language. In this study, the effects of the features coming from oral tradition on author’s language are anlalysed. In the study, firstly, relation between his novels and old narrative traditions is mentioned and then, in this context his novels are examined in terms of sentence constructions and various expressions. Author’s novels are examined in terms of using non-sentence parts, appositive parts, adjectival constructions and anomalous usings in grammar rules, as a result it is decided that all the features which are identified in the study are related to oral culture.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 137-156
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Turkish