Browsing by Subject "Curse"

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Curse and internet as a means of social control
(2007) Kocaer, S.
Many innovations have come to the life of society by technology and some of these innovations have created new cultural areas. Internet has become one of these new cultural areas where cultural codes are produced and consumed. By internet, "reader forums" named social spaces are made up in the virtual newspapers. In these reader forums people address to other people that they do not know and write their own interpretations about the news and read the unknown people's interpretations and even they write responses to those unknown people. Therefore, it is very clear that these internet spaces have become social areas where cultural codes are shared and new codes are produced. It is observed that the concept of curse which has an important place in society carries on its being in these virtual areas. The word "curse" literally has religious connotations. But, does curse have other functions in society? When curses are analyzed according to the social control theory it is observed that curses have psychological and social functions in society. In this article the concept of curse will be analyzed and the function of curse in society will be discussed according to the social control theory. In addition to these, the virtual internet space, which has become a new social area during the changing and conversion period from rural to urban, will be discussed and the place of curse in this new social space will be argued out.
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Formal features of praise and curse that facilitate the transmission and reproduction of conventional codes in oral culture
(2007) Terzioğlu, Öykü
Set phrases of praise and curse ensure the transmission of personal feelings and thoughts, and the protection, intensification and reproduction of value judgements brought into being in a long time period by the collective efforts of folk. Hence, this article is about the verbal devices such as rhythm, repetition, opposition, set compounds, visual elements and allusion that catalyze the transmission of these value judgements in question.
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New discourse of "Wish Words" in urban area: Electronic mail prayers
(2007) Tüzin, D.
How do "wish-desire words", prayers and curses which have been formed in common language likewise all the verbal creations, protect their existance in urban area? In this article on which the prayers and curses, are both wish words, and their changes which are similar to people's living conditions will be examined, it will be asked that how important is electronic mails' role in that change as one of the most important communication tools. This new form of prayers or curses which are populated and circulated by e-mails are prepared with the thought of that they will be accepted in case they will be sent to a group of people, if not, several misfortune will be confronted. The samples of electronic mail prayers sometimes occur in order to strengthen people's religious sense, sometimes in order to give people some hope or, generally, may occur as an unpleasant joke. In the urban area, this kind of change of the "wish words" can be seen as a sample of the change in the folk product's forms and contents due to continue their existance with the change of time. The formal and the contextual change of the "wish words" seems unavoidable because of the changes in communication ways and living conditions, but still this change contributes an opportunity to the existance of folklore in different ways and this is the main subject of this article.
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Woman as an object of sexual activity within the context of slang and curse
(2006) Tüzin, D.
Why do references focus on woman sexuality when one uses curse and swearwords? Moving on from this question, in this piece of study, in which the approach towards women is examined in the context of slang expressions and curse, the data that has been acquired by the shifting through the work called "The Great Slang Dictionary" (Büyük Argo Sözlüǧü) by Hulki Aktunç, are recognized as indicators. It is possible to observe the flourishing judgment based on the estimation that there is a one-to-one relationship between language and sex, in the slang and curse usage. The slang and curse, which can prove that the "woman" has been seen as the "other"-when considered in terms of both cultural and linguistic codes- in patriarchal societies as it could also be viewed in the examples provided in the study, becomes a fact that one encounters as a field and a style of speech in the sovereignty of men.