Opposite Function Of Humour And “New Nasreddin Hodja” Newspaper Cover Image

Mizahın Muhalefet İşlevi ve "Yeni Nasreddin Hoca Gazetesi"
Opposite Function Of Humour And “New Nasreddin Hodja” Newspaper

Author(s): Songül Çek
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Media studies, Recent History (1900 till today), Politics and society
Published by: Kültür Ajans Tanıtım ve Organizasyon
Keywords: The Newspaper of "New Nasreddin Hoca"; Term of Turkish Republic; Written Culture; Political Criticism; Joke; Communication;

Summary/Abstract: Nasreddin Hodja and his jokes, express the critical reaction which folk’s improve toward to life with a wise approach. Therefore these are continue to be said transfered even to be transported to written cultural context in Republic period by journals and newspapers. “New Nasreddin Hodja Newspaper, which began to publish in 1938 and continue to 1969 one of these. Setting face to face communication in oral culture, replaced the written communication cultural context in where interference of politic and humour transport to Nasreddin Hodja in different and relieve platform. Humour’s ironic feature softened to criticism, besides humour fact, which is transform to written text, limited to power of politic which is make pressure or directly go toward to goal. Receiver and sender of communication unavailable in context as tangible and lively, joke’s or joke’s hero as Nasreddin Hodja’s sending message, because of unconducted with recive rimmediately, it was impossible to react directly. This reduce the power of politic aganist the humor. In that condition, on one part, Nasreddin Hodja’s jokes started to be reproduced. On the other hand Hodja turned to be a hero who was reproduce political humour.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 32
  • Page Range: 99-106
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Turkish