18.3773, Diss: Socioling: Cekicel: 'Turkish Vocabulary Variants in Relation...'

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Date: 15-Dec-2007
From: yesim cekicel < yesimec at gmail.com >
Subject: Turkish Vocabulary Variants in Relation to Gender and Age

 

	
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Institution: Hacettepe University 
Program: Department of English Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 1999 

Author: Yesim Cekicel

Dissertation Title: Turkish Vocabulary Variants in Relation to Gender and Age 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Turkish (tur)


Dissertation Director(s):
Ceyhun Aksoy
Nalan Buyukkantarc?oglu
Aysu Erden
Gul Keskil
Is?l Ozy?ld?r?m

Dissertation Abstract:

Turkish  has  many  vocabulary  items  from  different  origins.  In  the 
following  research  some  of these  vocabulary  items  which  might  be 
called synonyms  from  different  origins  were  chosen   and   categorised
 as;

         Turkish-origin  vocabulary  items
         Arabic/Persian-origin  vocabulary  items  
         Western-origin  vocabulary  items

Hypotheses  were:
1)  Gender  and  age  of  the  speaker  affect  the  vocabulary  choice  in
 daily  speech  in  Turkish. 
2)   There  is  no  difference   between  male  and   female   speakers'
knowledge  of  the  three  types  of  vocabulary  items  of  different
origins.   
3)  Turkish-origin  vocabulary  items are  known  better   and  chosen more
frequently than Arabic/Persian-origin and Western-origin  vocabulary  items.

To test the above hypotheses an  experimental  form was  given  to  fifty 
male  and  fifty  female  subjects  from  five  different  age  groups.
Data  were  analysed  by  SPSS  and  Excel  programs  for  PC(Windows).
    
The  results  support  three  of  the  hypotheses. 





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