Analysis of Melisa Kesmez's stories in terms of language and style

In this study, 42 stories from the story books "Atları Bağlayın Geceyi Burada Geçireceğiz" (Tie the Horses, We'll Spend the Night Here), "Bazen Bahar" (Sometimes Spring), "Nohut Oda" (Chickpea Room), and "Küçük Yuvarlak Taşlar" (Small Round Stones) by contemporary story writer Melisa Kesmez were analyzed in terms of language and style. The aim of the study was to reach conclusions about Melisa Kesmez's language and style using a story-centered aproach. For this purpose, the first chapter provides information about Melisa Kesmez's life, literary career, and works. In the second chapter, in order to determine the author's language and style characteristics, narrative techniques such as internal monologue, internal dialogue, external dialogue, stream of consciousness, narration, showing and describing, montage, leitmotif, narrative forms, and examples were identified and their contributions to the flow of the story were explained. In the narrative syntax section, a total of 100 words were selected from the beginning, middle, and end of each story, and a total of 4,200 words were classified in terms of word types throughout the study. Similarly, a total of 100 sentence types were evaluated for each story in terms of sentence structure. In the third chapter of the study, the total number of words in each of the four story books, the number of words per section in these works, and the number of repeated words were determined. The 10 most frequently repeated words in the story books were classified. The author's capacity to use language and mastery of language were revealed through the numerical and objective data obtained from the deductions. Keywords: Melisa Kesmez, story, language, style, word.