Karadeniz Türkülerinde Alkış
Alkis (Blessing) in the Turkish Folk Songs of Black Sea Region

Summary/Abstract: Mold words that have molded by being settled slowly through historical process help for expressing feelings and thoughts in response to various situations ranging from birth to death, marriage to leaving or joining together. ‘Alkış’ (blessing) and ‘kargıs’ (curse) are the components of the routines (speech acts, relational utterances) which are influenced by the cultural background of a given society end thus used. The ‘alkış’ and kargış’ have managed to survive with all the customs they reserved until today. ‘Alkış’ and ‘kargış’ are one of our oral cultural elements which demonstrate the effects and the power of the language on humans by being used commonly as well as being supportive for the dynamics of social life. The word “alkış” is defined as “a prayer, a blessing, a benediction, a glorification, a laudation, a praise and a dignification”. It is possible to find numerous examples for the verbal traditions from our folk songs. There are also lots of examples for ‘alkış’ and ‘kargış’ in the Turkish folk songs in general. Since the Black Sea region is a place where the tradition for singing “atma” has been still carried out, it reserves the examples for ‘alkış’ and ‘kargış’ in lots of Turkish folk songs. This study examines, examples of alkış from Turkish folk music from Black Sea region.

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