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Euphemism

2006
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Advisor: Doç.dr. Ahat Üstüner

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The term of nicely naming doesn?t mean words or statements that states anyconcepts, creatures or motions that is seen unpleasant by society, but it means using asofter statement or words that can easily understood by the cudience. The process ofmaking subjects presentable in formal and polite envivanment is nicely naming.In All languages, the speaker atates his feelings and thoughts freely appropiate tothe envivanment he is in and his personality. Instead of some words seen incanvenientby the society he expresses his thoughts in an obscure way by using differat words. Inthis issue, the aim is to find the obscure statements in Turkish, to find some words thatare revealed through the aim of nicely naming and to find the reasons of these words tobe revealed. Various cultural reasons of some words that aren?t used by the societyduring the cammication are studied to find.Finding some words which have been produced through nicely naming in textscollected by collecting dictionaries, Turkish dictionary, and thatolian accents, westudied on these words cansidering their st vucturc, root, and meaning. Also cancepts,creatures, or motions, we tried to find taboas in or society.In meaning, the rate of words that are given different meanings in words used fornicely naming is sa high. The numbers of simple words due to their structure are lessthan derivative and compound ones. The word derivation power of Turkish shows itspower again in nicely naming. Also many received words have been used in nicelynaming. New words have been derivated from these received ones, and now meaninghave been assigned to newly derivaled words.It is seen that there is preventation from some words that have negativeassociation and they are prohibited by society. There are four veasans of chaosingnicely; the latter is that nicely naming including fear, the latter is that nicely namingincluding hiding faults, the third one is nicely naming including ethical cancepts and thelast one is that nicely naming incuding faith.% 9.05 of nicelig naming is related to the superstitions in religin br fear anddrawback because of the omen. For some imaginary creatures or omenous animalsagaih nicely naming is appued. Not mentianing the names of same creatures like ghostsand fairies is not related to the fear, but related to the faith.The rate of nicely naming related to the fear is % 10.96 in this group the rate ofcompound word is pretty much than the simple and derivative words. Nicely namingincluding fear is much more related to the faith. We can take in to account huge rungeof nicely naming in these two groups. Sometime fear may be related to the ethicalconcepts. Nicely naming including ethical concepts is closely related to the rules ofgood manners and objects or creatures are stated by nicely naming as a result ofpoliteness of society Some concepts in this grup such as adultery, bribe, theft are alsorelated to the faith.In nicely naming includiny tiding faults, actually there are physical lacks andsome natural body fuuctions. In disecses the word mostly needs to apply nicely namingis tuberculosis.the similarities between the word that shouldn?t beused and the other onehave let nicely naming accur.The terms in nicely naming that we have found is the mirror of the Turkishsociety?s politeness.Key Words: Euphemism, slang, metaphor, literary utterance, language andculture relationship

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Dr. Ahmet Gecekuşu

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Ahmet Gecekuşu (Master Thesis). Euphemism, 2006, Fırat University.

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