The subject of this article is about to the relations between football and the media in terms of folkloric tradition. The changes in our social, cultural political and economic situations have affected the traditional ways ...

Although proverbs and idioms have been generated in "primary oral cultures", they still play a considerable role in modern urban life. It could be observed that proverbs and idioms are not frozen forms; on the contrary, ...

In this study, the figure of shahmaran (a half-snake, half-human hybrid) and the adventures of related characters in Zülfü Livaneli's film entitled Şahmaran: Bir İstanbul Masali (Shahmaran: An İstanbul Tale) (1993) are ...

This paper is largely based on the linguistic theories of humor as formulated by Raskin and Attardo, and Davis's interpretation of these theories in relation to the ethnic jokes. The main argument is that, a joke could be ...

The pioneering work of Alan Dundes has called attention to the fact that using the terms "folk" and "peasant" synonymously excludes primitive societies and city dwellers from the concept of folk. This study delves into the ...

Community centers have a significant role in the history of Turkish folklore studies through their folklore-oriented activities, publications and especially magazines. The latter deserve special attention as a written ...

In the last decades, particularly in the field of social sciences the notion of "otherization" has been highly discussed. It has been seen that the tendency to "otherize" is a phenomenon highly common in the field of ...

The comic anecdotes that have elements of humor like witticism and mockery, are the most effective products of oral humor in which someone or some event is satirized. When we take Nasrettin Hodja anecdotes into consideration, ...

Bu makalede Bronislaw Malinowski'nin İlkel Toplumlarda Cinsellik ve Baskı isimli çalışması Sigmund Freud'un öncülüğünü yaptığı psikanalitik kuram çerçevesinde incelenmiş, psikanalitik kuram bağlamında eksik olan yönleri ...

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