Türkçe Sözlüklere Göre “Salgın” Kavram Alanı
Concept Map of "Salgin" According to Turkish Dictionaries

Summary/Abstract: The trajectory of a word in a language does not only depend on linguistic phenomena. Various factors such as culture, religion, time, and economy have an effect on the use and linguistic or semantic changes of words. Diseases affect individuals socially. Especially with contagious diseases, it is not only the individual's health that is at risk. In addition to an individual’s health, vocabulary related to this disease comes into play when it spreads or is cured. Therefore, evolving diseases throughout history also point at evolving words and meanings. In this study, "Salgin" meaning epidemic was examined as a word that covers all contagious diseases. Used alongside "salgin," words in Contemporary Turkish Dictionaries such as epidemi, pandemi, olet, kiran and mustevli all reveal the aforementioned social changes. Differences in these words also indicate differences in contagious diseases they refer to. This study tries to determine the social change related to the word "salgin" by tracing it in Turkish Dictionaries beginning with their first editions.

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