Conference Papers by Orhun Büyükkarcı
Though it is possible to trace the origins of narrative theory back to Aristoteles and Plato, the... more Though it is possible to trace the origins of narrative theory back to Aristoteles and Plato, the current bases of narratology as a discipline on its own right were laid in 1960s with the studies performed in the frame of French Structuralism. Today, narratology has been the focus of interest of many branches in social sciences, and by virtue of the expansion in its size and importance a great deal of contribution has been made to its content comprising not only written discourses but also to the fields of film, art, history and even medicine. In the light of the developmental process of narratology, it is possible to suggest that
systematized and consistent ways of depicting the constructive elements of a narrative have been prevalent. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to pave a way for a better understanding one of O. Henry’s popular stories, “The Ransom of Red Chief” by utilizing
narratological tools of analysis. Considering the current situation of narratology as a method of analysis to involve a great number of theories and approaches towards a great number of aspects in a narrative, the need to limit the analysis in terms of both theories of narratology to be followed and the parameters to be focused in the story has been emerged. Keeping this in mind, the analysis will be in the frontiers of main constructive elements of the story such as character, time, space, and point of view in the light of theoretical terminology coined mainly by classical (structuralist) narratologists such as Gerard Genette, Seymour Chatman, Algirdas Julien Greimas.
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Papers by Orhun Büyükkarcı
Anlatının Söylemi: Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü'nün Anlatıbilimsel İncelemesi (Narrative Discourse: Narratological Analysis of The Time Regulation Institute) , 2023
This book deeply examines one of popular works of Turkish author Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar ,The Time R... more This book deeply examines one of popular works of Turkish author Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar ,The Time Regulation Institute, from the perspective of narratology considering three main formative aspects, character, time and space.
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Turkish studies - Language and Literature, 2021
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International Journal of Language Academy, 2018
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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 30, 2023
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Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, Jun 30, 2020
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Vakanüvis - Uluslararası Tarih Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021
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Vakanüvis - Uluslararası Tarih Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021
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RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021
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Turkish Studies - Language and Literature, 2021
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Orhun Yazıtlarına Göstergebilimsel Bir Yaklaşım, 2021
girişen hükümdarların ve diğer anlatı ögelerinin bu mücadelede üstlendikleri roller görselleştiri... more girişen hükümdarların ve diğer anlatı ögelerinin bu mücadelede üstlendikleri roller görselleştirilmiş ve yapısal olarak işlevlerine göre sınıflandırılmıştır. Çalışmanın sonuç bölümünde, Orhun Yazıtları anlatılarının çözümlenmesinde ortaya çıkan Türk Milletinin yokluktan varlığa geçiş sürecinin ve anlatı ögeleri aralarında tekerrür eden yapısal ilişkilerin, Türk Milleti ve hükümdarları için ifade ettikleri göstergesel değerler tartışılarak daha belirgin hale getirilmiştir.
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Research Articl, 2021
Semiotics as a comprehensive branch seeks for meaning production process generated by the interre... more Semiotics as a comprehensive branch seeks for meaning production process generated by the interrelations of signs, and therefore, may allow examining any discipline. One of those disciplines is literature. The significance of the present study is to draw attention to the analysis of formative structures of a narrative, using analysis tools of literary semiotics and narratology. Accordingly, examining both abstract and concrete fine details of a text, this study aims at investigating how the sense of horror was invoked by Edgar Allan Poe in one of his horror stories, "The Cask of Amontillado". The methodology of the study, improved by French semiotician, Algirdas Julien Greimas, comprises the analysis of three semantic layers: the discursive, narrative and deep levels. Also, the tools of narratology have been utilized at the discursive level to examine the actors and time in the story, thereby making this an interdisciplinary study. In doing so, the predetermined semiotic methodology has made it possible to obtain information both on the authorial techniques and the text itself. According to the findings gathered through a semio-narrative analysis, it can be suggested that transformations from beginning to the end of the story regarding characters, space and time have taken place from good to evil, life to death or bright to dark. This further highlights Edgar Allan Poe's achievements in the creation of horror stories.
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Research Article, 2021
Anlatı şemaları aracılığıyla Kürk Mantolu Madonna'da anlatı izlemlerinin göstergebilimsel bir göz... more Anlatı şemaları aracılığıyla Kürk Mantolu Madonna'da anlatı izlemlerinin göstergebilimsel bir gözlemi / O. Büyükkarcı (345-363. s.
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Research Article, 2021
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar is one of the prominent novelists in Turkish literature. Regarding the first... more Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar is one of the prominent novelists in Turkish literature. Regarding the first examples of Modernist Turkish Literature, his works have attracted the interest of a vast number of researchers that deal with literature and history. Accordingly, the significance of the present study is to raise awareness of both plot construction in one of the well-known novels of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, The Time Regulation Institute, and his writing techniques. In the study, the primary aim is to present the contribution of "characters deaths" into one of his novel's plot, The Time Regulation Institute. Doing this will be beneficial in two ways. First, it will help readers overcome the challenge of comprehending the non-chronological order of the story plot. Secondly, the analysis will make it easy to understand why and how the author used the deaths of certain characters in Hayri İrdal's transformations along with the storyline. For the analysis, tools of disciplines of narratology and especially literary semiotics were employed. One of those tools is actantial narrative schema, improved by Algirdas Julien Greimas, and the other is binary oppositions, which is an essential analysis tool of structuralists. Amongst the 14 characters' deaths, only the deaths that greatly affected İrdal's life were selected for analysis, and their thematic roles and the functions of their deaths for the protagonist were first examined; then, binary categories were formed based on the concept of death. In conclusion, there is clear evidence to support the generalization that Tanpınar used deaths as a transformation device for the protagonist.
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Narratological Analysis of The Ransom of O. Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief", 2020
The studies within the frame of classical narratology have remarkably contributed to the field of... more The studies within the frame of classical narratology have remarkably contributed to the field of narrative analysis. The significance of the present study is to raise awareness of constructive elements of a narrative using classical narrative analysis. This study aims at investigating character, time and space in O. Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief", using the narratological terminologies in the analysis. Considering the current situation of narratology as a method of analysis that involves many approaches towards a high number of aspects in a narrative, the study focuses on the essential constructive elements of the story and point of view. The employs the theoretical terminologies offered by classical narratologists. Findings in the study fall into two ca tegories: Narration and narratorial position of the narrator, and formative elements of the story. These categories present three essential formative components, (a) Characters and characterization, (b) space, and (c) time. The data gathered from the findings indicated that O. Henry's achievement might lean on the prevalence of a reliable narrator using discourse time more for the narration of incidents between the characters than that of others in specific types of space with humoristic style as well as situational and verbal irony. This study allows for critical implications both on the readers who wish to understand O. Henry better and on the researchers calling for an increase in the number of narrative studies.
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Essentials of Applied Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching: 21st Century Skills and Classroom Applications , 2021
Dating back to ancient times (Baer, 1983), semiotics takes its modern foundations from two philos... more Dating back to ancient times (Baer, 1983), semiotics takes its modern foundations from two philosophers, Charles Sander Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure, expressing ideas on semiotics unawarely of each other in different continents (Yücel, 2015). As Danesi puts (2017), semiotics is a “metalanguage” (p. 61) that is enchantingly possible to be applied to a broad range of subject areas. This characteristic renders semiotics a multi and interdisciplinary branch, ranging from the domains of language and culture to philosophy and science. Whatever the subject area is, the primary tendency of semiotic ramifications like “Peircians”, “Lotmanians” and “Greimassians” is to put forward possible theories on “signs”, “culture” and “signification” by the evaluation of relations between signs whether verbal or non-verbal (Landowski, 2015, p. 84). Language and literature, both the cultural heritage of a community, are unsurprisingly under the research area of semiotics since they reflect the combination of signs within these cultures. Besides, they are nested entities because the unique material of literature is language. This fundamentally brings the use of literature in language classrooms (Carrio-Pastor, 2019; Hewings et al., 2016; Lazar, 2009), except for the sole systematic settings of literary education curricula (Blocksidge, 2000; Chambers & Gregory, 2006; Widdowson, 2013). Accordingly, it is possible to suggest that the primary purpose of this study is to propose one of the aforesaid semiotic approaches, so-called “Greimassian semiotics” (Yücel, 2001, p. 9), as a method of analysis to language and literature classes. Doing this is believed to provide informational and practical insight to both the teachers and the students, who are already concerned with teaching and learning a language and its literature. The reason for choosing the semiotic approach of Algirdas Julien Greimas, the founder of Paris School of Semiotics, among many others, is that it is one of “the first and most developed semiotic theory” (Yücel, 2012, p. 93), which seeks for signification process in literary-narrative artworks. With its goals, research areas and own analysis method, Greimas semiotics has been called “literary-narrative semiotics” (Yücel, 2012, p. 93) since it flourished. Besides, it is also believed in the study that the presentation of information on the application of this method will help students overcome the challenge of seeing problematic areas in literary works that have an idiosyncratic semantic universe created by the logical systematization of signs. Additionally, the conscious act of unfolding the universe of texts will help practitioners to systematize the reading process to increase critical thinking skills and to make the recondite points more explicit and comprehensible. As a signification theory, Literary semiotics requires apprehension of different semantic structures of the texts to cope with difficulties in explaining the complicated interaction between signs, which facilitates understanding the meaning formation in literary texts. However, it has specific rules, terminology, and analysis instruments that are sometimes hard to conceive. Therefore, in the analysis part of the study, the clarifications on the successive steps and tools of a systematized literary semiotic analysis will be made along with the instructional questions to be followed by teachers and students. For the semiotic analysis, “The Last Leaf” (1995), which is one of the famous short stories of William Sydney Porter, a well-known American writer with the pseudonym “O. Henry”, has been selected. The analysis will be performed under three headings, each indicating a specific meaning layer of text. These are respectively discursive, narrative and deep levels.
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systematized and consistent ways of depicting the constructive elements of a narrative have been prevalent. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to pave a way for a better understanding one of O. Henry’s popular stories, “The Ransom of Red Chief” by utilizing
narratological tools of analysis. Considering the current situation of narratology as a method of analysis to involve a great number of theories and approaches towards a great number of aspects in a narrative, the need to limit the analysis in terms of both theories of narratology to be followed and the parameters to be focused in the story has been emerged. Keeping this in mind, the analysis will be in the frontiers of main constructive elements of the story such as character, time, space, and point of view in the light of theoretical terminology coined mainly by classical (structuralist) narratologists such as Gerard Genette, Seymour Chatman, Algirdas Julien Greimas.
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systematized and consistent ways of depicting the constructive elements of a narrative have been prevalent. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to pave a way for a better understanding one of O. Henry’s popular stories, “The Ransom of Red Chief” by utilizing
narratological tools of analysis. Considering the current situation of narratology as a method of analysis to involve a great number of theories and approaches towards a great number of aspects in a narrative, the need to limit the analysis in terms of both theories of narratology to be followed and the parameters to be focused in the story has been emerged. Keeping this in mind, the analysis will be in the frontiers of main constructive elements of the story such as character, time, space, and point of view in the light of theoretical terminology coined mainly by classical (structuralist) narratologists such as Gerard Genette, Seymour Chatman, Algirdas Julien Greimas.