Atatürk Dönemi Türk Edebiyatında Söylem

Abstract

In the dissertation entitled Discourse in Turkish Literature during the Atatürk Period, our primary aim is to demonstrate that the Atatürk Period, as a polyphonic era, enabled a diversity of discourses. In order to reveal this discursive diversity, a series of discourses emerging across the four major literary genres of the period—novel, short story, drama, and poetry—were examined through the selection of specific overarching categories, and the relevant texts were subjected to discourse analysis.The methodological framework of the study is based on discourse analysis. Taking Teun van Dijk's interpretation of ideology through the cognition–society–discourse triangle as its main point of departure, the methodology was constructed on an eclectic basis, drawing on the perspectives and identified discourse components of discourse scholars such as Norman Fairclough, M. A. K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan, and Jonathan Potter. The aim of this approach is to access all layers of meaning presented by the text. Within this methodological framework, the dissertation analyzes the Atatürk Period and its literary texts along the axes of discourse and ideology. As a result of the study, it is discussed which ideologies and cognitive processes underlie the use of the identified discourse components by authors and poets, and which of these components are parallel to the Atatürk Period and which adopt an oppositional stance are clarified through explicit and implicit discourse constructions.