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Makale Özeti:
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The aim of the research is to
investigate conceptual frames of body parts,as perceived
by native Turkish speakers while they learn English
idioms that employ body-part components. The study is
mainly based on the assumptions of the theory of frames
by Minsky (1974), who proposed the frame system
for the cognitive sciences. Vygotsky (1986) introduced
conceptual frames in his theory of human development,
and Fillmore (2006) operated with the term “frame” in
his frame semantics. The above mentioned theories have
been applied to make up a network of ‘nodes’ and
‘relations’ that Turkish learners of English built up
while guessing the meaning of English idioms, with the
focus on their body-part components. The experiment
was conducted among first-year students with an
intermediate level of English from the department of
English Language Education at Middle East Technical
University, Ankara. Participants were asked to fill in
questionnaires and to guess the meaning of 15 English
idioms that employ body-part components such as eyes,
hands, head, heart, leg/foot, nose, and tongue. To
ensure the validity and reliability of the experiment,
interviews were conducted with five respondents and a
think-aloud protocol was conducted with six other
respondents. The qualitative data obtained in the
experiment were analyzed, and the results showed that
Turkish students build different frames related to body part
meanings based on their universal, cultural and
personal world perception.
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