Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi (Oct 2009)
Dilsel Temsilleştirme Aracı Olarak Yüklemleme (Predication as Representation)
Abstract
In the process of defining the information ‘Who did what to whom’, which is the first condition in apprehending a sentence, in other words defining the kind of the event the sentence describes, determining the participants in the event and designating the role that these participants take in the event, the theories of linguistics either tried to classify the events themselves or the verbs which encode an activity, a doing or a happening in some world. However, these studies overlook the functional dimensions, namely the metafunctions of language corresponding to three concepts of subject in the 19th century and existing in all sentences, and focus only one of these levels. In this respect, the concept of predication which designates the meta-functions of language with the interaction among them, should be investigated. In order to handle predication, a theoretical framework which can analyse these tree meta-functions together should be selected. In the study first a brief summary of the approaches to analyse the information ‘who did what to whom’ will be given; then differently from the mainstream linguistics, the concept of State-of-Affairs brought forward by Functional Grammar will be summarized. After a brief section on predication which designates the State-of-Affairs, a new theoretical framework which can analyse predication in every aspect will be introduced.
