A research on the textuality of "Culture" and "Communication": intercultural communication in Yaşar Kemal's novels

The relationship between the concepts of language, communication, culture and text is discussed in the sociocultural context through literary texts. Literary texts are accepted as communication forms/tools established with written language, and in this way, language/literary text ensures the survival, maintenance and transmission of culture.. The intercultural communication discipline's argument that "communication is culture, and culture is communication" has made it possible to benefit from the theories and methods of both disciplines, as text-based cultural studies offer the opportunity to research, question and understand cultural narrative forms -texts- that can have the effect of transforming the social/cultural structure and relations. Language/communication based on cultural difference in Yaşar Kemal's novels -Kimsecik Trilogy and Bir Ada Hikayesi Quartet- has been analyzed in a sociocultural context based on Raymond Williams' concept of "structure of feeling On the basis of this concept, it has been researched how the forms of collective experience shaped by the whole lifestyle -culture- are reflected in the context of the communication established between the subcultures of the Anatolian geography in the novels and how they affect/prevent communication. In the research, textual analysis, which is a method extending from literary studies to cultural studies, interpretive approach from intercultural communication research approaches, and ethnography of communication method, which is accepted as the best example of interpretive intercultural research, were used together. As a result of the research, stereotypes, prejudices, ethnocentrism and discrimination, which are conceptualized as barriers to intercultural communication and are the analysis themes of this study, were revealed by analyzing the narrative of the literary text and the conversations/dialogues of the novel characters. In the dialogues based on cultural difference, it has been concluded that language/communication is affected by the sociocultural context and the structure of feeling that describes the experience of this context transforms language/communication. In the study, it is also explained by questioning how and with which values Yaşar Kemal, as an intellectual and a writer and his novels, created a "new language/communication" between cultures at the point of positive change/transformation of structure of feeling and therefore collective experiences in order to eliminate barriers to intercultural communication. Keywords: Language, communication, culture, text, intercultural communication, cultural studies, structure of feeling, ethnography of communication.