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Bilinçaltına Dayalı Etnik Küfürler
Subconscious Ethnic Swearwords

Author(s): Mustafa Şenel
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Karadeniz Araştırmaları Merkezi
Keywords: Subconscious; ethnic; swearwords; curse

Summary/Abstract: Turkey is a country which is economic, cultural and political bridge between Asia and Europe. Our country has permanent communication with its neighbours like Greece, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Syria, Iraq and as a result of this socio‐cultural interaction, way of speaking and linguistic expression is influenced in culture. In our study, the expressions related with the past experiences of people called ethnic.For example; the people of East and South‐east region who were tyrannizes by Armenians over years curse by saying “ Armenia” to people to behaves violently. In this study, regional ethnic swearwords are collected and examined linguistically.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 32
  • Page Range: 137-154
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Turkish