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In this issue of the journal ((4)8 Autumn 2016), 22 articles, 6 of which are in foreign language, are included. It is gratifying to see the various works from different fields of social sciences: 7 articles represent literary field, 8 articles represent sociology and history, 3 articles are from linguistics and 4 articles are from education and fine arts.
In the field of linguistics, Özge Sönmez in her study A Semiotic Approach to Space in the Story of Mountain Hotel of Guy De Maupassant aims to present the function and place of “space” in the story “Mountain Hotel” written by the famous French writer Guy Maupassant in 1886. In Towards a Social Theory of Interpreting, Valery Paternotte suggests certain constructive themes by using recent results from cognitive sciences, translation studies, and sociology of communication to find building blocks for a broader theory. In A Textlinguistics Analysis: Military Coup Declaration of 12 September 1980, Hasan Sefer aims to reveal how text creators form declaration texts using the linguistics tools. Accordingly, he analyses the text of the 12 September 1980 military coup speech delivered by Kenan Evren based on the textlinguistics methods.
In education field, Gülşah Tıkız and Feryal Çubukçu’s co-authored work The Act of Wizardry and the Development of a Wizard within a Constructivist Perspective: Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea, intends to evaluate the story of Ged, the protagonist, and his adventures as he is wandering through Earthsea in A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) by Ursula Le Guin. They try to tackle the theme of education, and demonstrate that there are various examples of the constructivist theory, from both a cognitive and a social view of the theory. Yeşim Çelik in her study entitled An Evaluation on Advertising Literacy Education: An Assessment of Media Literacy Curriculum in Terms of Advertising Literacy in Turkey evaluates media literacy curriculum in terms of advertising literacy in Turkey. In this frame, the content of media literacy course is examined in terms of advertising literacy, and old and new teaching materials in primary education are compared.
Two articles on fine arts meet the reader, one of which is Fıber Art: The Struggle for Its Consideration as Art and Its Rise as a Contemporary Field of Art. In this article Nimet Keser aims to study how the breakage occurred in the value judgments assigned as ‘art’ versus ‘craft’ which are shaped in the traditional art history perspective, and the struggle of fiber and fabric based arts against paint based arts and sculpture which have been regarded as high arts for centuries. According to Özlem Somuncu, The Presentation of Pop Art to the Students in Their Graphic Lessons at the Department of Art Education of the Faculty of Fine Arts is important due to the fact that it will enable higher education students to interpret their own design at a critical level.
The Aid Provided by the Ottoman Government to Immigrants Settled in Hudâvendigâr Province between 1878-1900 is one of the four articles from the field of history, which is written by Nursal Kumaş. The author investigates the aids provided by the Ottoman Empire to the immigrants settled in Hudâvendigâr Province between 1878 and 1900. In Banditry from Mudros Armistice to Invasion of Western Anatolia and the Efforts to Provide Public Order, Hakan Yaşar deals with banditry incidents which became the main threat to people living in rural areas of Western Anatolia in terms of life and safety, and the precautions taken by the Ottoman Empire. Halil Çakır in his work Hardt and Negri’s Empire Thesis as a Post-Modern Approach to Just War Concept discusses the importance of term just war in political dimension of globalization which Hardt and Negri reveal as part of a power paradigm. In The Opening Lesson Tradition of Madrasas in Medieval Islamic World on the Model of Kayseri Pervane Bey Madrasa, Mahmut Recep Keleş analyzes the scientific activities in Kayseri, which was an important city of Anatolian Seljuk Empire, and astronomy and mathematics scholar Şirazi’s works particularly in the field of medicine.
One English and three Turkish articles are presented on sociology. Nurhayat Çalışkan Akçetin in her article entitled Martin Heidegger and National Socialism: Was He a Nazi? aims to put forward M. Heidegger's views regarding national socialism and the debate on whether Heidegger is a Nazi or not. Deniz Eroğlu Utku and Pınar Yazgan in their co-authored work Active Or Symbolic Participation?: Hopes And Hindrances Of Roma People’s Political Demands, try to address the hindrances to Roma people’s active political participation, the sources of these hindrances and how they have perceived recent developments. In Being Men in Turkey: The Difficulties Experienced by University Students, Özlem Haskan Avcı et al. intend to examine the opinion of male university students in Turkey about the difficulties they are experiencing as men. Mehmet Hişyar Korkusuz in his study A Different View over City and Stress: Field Survey and Results on Administrative Stress Observed on Kaimakams (District Governor) puts forward the situation of the kaimakams in Turkey in the context of “Administrator and Stress”.
In the field of literature, there are five Turkish and two English articles. Engin Bezci in The Code of Love in the Fabulous Middle Ages: Andre Le Chapelain’s On Love as a Guide for Reading Literature of the Court aims to discuss the fundamental characteristics of the Medieval Court Literature by interpreting some articles of the famous “Code of Love” in line with some works having an impact on the era. In Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart on Page and on Screen, Seda Coşar Çelik aims to investigate Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart and its short movie adaptation with the same title directed by Jules Dassin in 1941. Rahime Çokay Nebioğlu in William Golding’s Rites of Passage: Fragments of Tragedy in Postmodern Fiction seeks to scrutinize postmodernist aspects in Rites of Passage, exploring the contribution of these aspects to the building up of chaotic and tragic atmosphere of the novel rather than to a playfulness that is expected to arise out of diversity observed both in characterization and in language and structure. In Pir Sultan Abdal’s Poems in a Journal- I, Hasan Kaya and Necat Çetin handle the poems of Pir Sultan Abdal published in a journal. There are 69 poems of Pir Sultan Abdal in the journal. As this number is too much for the article, the first 23 poems had been analyzed. There are five quadrants in 22 poems while there are eight quadrants in one poem. It is determined that eleven syllabic meters are used in all of the chosen poems. It is attempted to correct some of the defects in syllabic meters by restoring the texts. Meryem Nakiboğlu in The Fairy Tale Elements in Hermann Hesse’s Augustus and its Analysis According to Propp examines the types of fables and fairy tales, and identifies the type of “Augustus” tale. Then, she analyses the tale according to the Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp’s 31 elements of tale analysis technique, and compares it to his data and symbols. The functionality of the tale is also analyzed with Propp’s Morphology of the tale method. In her article entitled Traces of the Noble Savage Myth in the Tale Amandine or the Two Gardens, Rabia Topan aims to examine the noble savage in this tale in the light of myth criticism. In As I Lay Dying and Sessiz Ev As Modernist Novels, Yusuf Ziyaettin Turan compares and contrasts William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (1930), from Anglo-American literature, with Orhan Pamuk’s Sessiz Ev (1983), from Turkish literature, in the context of Western style modernist novel aspects, particularly stream of consciousness technique. Our study, which is written by İrfan Atalay and called Methods of Sociocritics, The Sociology of Literature in The Analysis of Texts and Lucien Goldmann’s Genetic Structuralism aims to provide an understanding to the comprehension part, which includes determination of inner facts in the text in the criticism process of the work and to the explanation part which includes connections of external structures with the problem in the work and also it is aimed to introduce the criticism method of Goldmann.
Tekirdağ – 2016
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