ADIYAMAN-GERGER AĞIZLARINDA ‘KADIN’ SÖYLEMİ ÜZERİNE BİR ANALİZ
A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF WOMAN IN THE DIALECTS OF GERGER

Summary/Abstract: The cultures of societies are comprised of the human behaviors depending on the societies; of the perceptions of the people towards women and/or men; and, of the opinions and perspectives of the people living in them. Taking slight individual differences into consideration, a society’s reactions, statements, and actions are usually similar under certain circumstances. One of the occasions where this similarity applies is the perceptions towards women. One of the efficient sources which can shed light onto whether the perceptions towards women are positive or negative is the compilations of the dialects of the people. In this study, the examples of the statements towards women from fairy tales, stories and real life in the dialects of the district of Gerger of the city of Adiyaman were studied and the perceptions towards women were analyzed using discourse analysis. Many concepts used when speaking of women such as violence, delivery, administrator, chastity, bride price, polygamy, slander, oppression, parental discord/domestic violence, birth/stepmother, women’s will, etc. were identified in fairy tales and real-life stories. The compilations were studied over those concepts, the reflections of those concepts on women were explained, the difference between the tone of the male and female narrators were emphasized and several other details were statistically analyzed. As a result of the compilations put together in Gerger region, the traces of perceptions towards women were found in the fairy tales and real-life stories of 16 narrators out of 39. Among those perceptions are the qualities of polygamy, women not being able to keep secrets, women treated as goods and being bought, and not being able administer well stood out as significant

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