Use of Quotation Marks as Significant Pragmatic Signals in Orhan Pamuk's Novel Kafamda Bir Tuhaflik Cover Image

Upotreba navodnika kao značajnih pragmatičnih signala u romanu Kafamda Bir Tuhaflikautora Orhana Pamuka
Use of Quotation Marks as Significant Pragmatic Signals in Orhan Pamuk's Novel Kafamda Bir Tuhaflik

Author(s): Edina Solak, Mirza Bašić
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Pragmatics, Turkish Literature, South Slavic Languages, Turkic languages
Published by: Pedagoški fakultet Univerziteta u Bihaću
Keywords: quotation marks; punctuation; pragmatic signals; Turkish language; Bosnian language;

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the use of quotation marks as significant pragmatic signals in the novel Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık by Orhan Pamuk, a Turkish Nobel prize winner. Besides, contrastive analysis is used to compare the use of quotation marks as pragmatic signals in the original text of the novel and its translation to Bosnian language. This is used to try to establish whether the identical pragmatic values of quotation marks are activated in both Turkish and Bosnian language. The initial language is Turkish, which means that the use of quotation marks as pragmatic signals in Turkish language is compared to their use in the translational equivalents in Bosnian language. An analysis like this should contribute to a better understanding and knowledge of interrelations between punctuation and pragmatics in two genetically and typologically different languages.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 11-12
  • Page Range: 41-62
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Bosnian