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14TH INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CONGRESS ON HUMANITIES AND SOCİAL SCIENCES , İstanbul, Turkey, 26 - 28 August 2023, pp.56
ABSTRACT Turkish has been spoken in many geographies from historical periods to modern times. Turkish, which has continued its development as a spoken language for many years, has gained depth and expressive power over the years. With this depth and expressive power, the first examples of the Turkish language were the texts engraved on the endless stones that we see in the 6th-7th centuries. Numerous translation and evaluation studies have been carried out on many texts written in the Orkhun Alphabet, the Uyghur Alphabet and the Arabic-based Ottoman Alphabet, respectively. Semiotics, on the other hand, has created conceptual approaches by prioritizing the concept of sign. A. J. Greimas created a method he called “Semiotic Square” and analyzed literary works through contrasting concepts with this method. In addition to these essays of Greimas, many scholars, especially Derrida and Umberto Eco, have made essays on semiotics, and in this context, many literary texts, mainly in French, have been analyzed with semiotic methods. In Turkey, the first semiotic studies were conducted by Tahsin Yücel, and the studies became widespread with the translation of many works written in the field into Turkish. The aim of this study is to question the feasibility of semiotic applications on literary texts belonging to Historical Turkish dialects and Turkey Turkish, to examine the studies that have been done and to contribute to the literature by presenting a seminal idea for future studies. In this context, the status of semiotics and Turkish is given, the studies conducted are evaluated, and information about the studies that can be done is given. As a result, it has been concluded that the deep structure of Turkish is suitable for semiotic analysis and that studies in the field will contribute to the literature and that these studies are necessary.
Keywords: historical Turkish dialects, semiology, Turkish language