THE CONCEPT OF SEMANTIC PROSODY AND EXAMPLES FROM TURKISH: “aksettirmek, ...dan ibaret, ...nin teki, karşı karşıya, varsa yoksa”

Abstract

This study introduces the concept of semantic prosody, and calls attention to the different aspects of it based on the examples taken form Turkish. Semantic prosody is a kind of hidden evaluative meaning whichcan not be identified at first sight, but can be revealed after a careful and detealid analysis of corpus data. Semantic prosodies can be both positive and negative, but previous reserchs show that negative prosodies are prevelant. The linguistic units subject to analysis were chosen depending on the author’s linguistic observations, and analysed based on the corpus data depending on the co-occurences and collocations. The corpus consulted in the study is the demo version of Turkish National Corpus. The node words are as follows: ““aksettirmek, ...dan ibaret, ...nin teki, karşı karşıya, varsa yoksa”.

Keywords

• Semantic Prosody
• Hidden Meaning
• Negative Meaning
• Evaluative Language