Türkçede Ses Kavramsal Alanının Yapılandırılmasında İmge Şemaları, Kavramsal Metafor ve Metoniminin Rolleri
The Roles of Image Schemas, Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy in Structuring the Conceptual Field of Sound in Turkish

Summary/Abstract: In this research, the concept of sound in Turkish has been considered in terms of its occurrences in the fields of music and speech and analyzed with respect to the related metalanguage and daily language. As it is the case for most conceptual field, we have a body of structured knowledge regarding the sound. It is understood from the image schematic, conceptual metaphorical and metonymic patterns found in music and phonology texts that the components of the sound like pitch, amplitude and timbre; and the formations of it like melody, motion, path, interval, chord and scale are understood as abstract concepts that must be embodied as concrete entities by the human mind. Drawing on this, the roles of these patterns in structuring the conceptual content of the sound in Turkish frame the focus of this research. To that end, typical examples have been collected from the metalinguistic usages found in the books of music theory, linguistics, acoustics and music encyclopedias. On the other hand, naïve knowledge models of sound have been observed in daily formulaic language containing idioms and proverbs and also in the web news. Findings show that image schemas, conceptual metaphor and metonymy are highly prevalent in both models of knowledge. It has also been observed that the specific terms found in the metalanguage of music and linguistics actually belong to the daily language and have been transferred into the metalanguage through metaphorical mapping. Sound is such a widespread phenomenon that we obviously can not restrict it to music and language only. However, our findings will hopefully help us understand the nature of the other types of sound as well.

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