THE LANGUAGE OF CAR-ENTHUSIASTS AS AN URBAN FOLKLORE
BİR KENT FOLKLORU OLARAK OTOMOBİL-SEVERLERİN DİLİ

Author : Nuh DOĞAN
Number of pages : 266-293

Abstract

Car-enthusiasts are a social group, in other words, folk group that form in the city life as a results of socio-economic, technological, and cultural developments. There is a correlation betwen social differences and factors such as group, social class, gender, ethnic identity and language variation. In order to differentiate, to become contrary, to arouse interest, to draw attention, the car-enthusiasts generate a language variant which can create and conserve their identity of group, which also has an idiosyncratic vocabulary and expression ways as literary besides linguistic variables. The language of car-enthusiasts can be interpreted as a folkloric product which is shapen in the life of city. It can be seen that this language variant implies the life-style, the world-view and philosohpy of folk; in additon, ıt also is reflection of sense of aesthetics of and wit of and linguistic performance of the folk. While expressing their feeling and their thought, car-enthusiasts have used

Keywords

Car-enthusiasts, language of car-enthusiasts, urban folklore, expression ways

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