Kalelioğlu, Murat

Kalelioğlu, Murat

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Doktor Öğretim Üyesi

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Department of Translation and Interpreting / Mütercim ve Tercümanlık Bölümü

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36

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11

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0

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A narratological analysis of O. Henry's "the ransom of red chief"
(NALANS: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 2020) Büyükkarcı, Orhun; Kalelioğlu, Murat
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 categories: 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.
Analysis of Duha Kocaoglu Deli Dumrul Narrative within the Framework of Literary Semiotics
(Turkish Studies: International Periodical for the Languages, Literature, and History of Turkish or Turkic, 2018) Kalelioğlu, Murat; Günay, V. Doğan
Oral narrative tradition dates back centuries, and it has a great variety of rich culture and colorful motives in literature. Within this cultural wealth, one of the most significant works of art is Dede Korkut narratives accepted as the oldest epic tales belonging to Turks which are the stories that can be shown as the earlier examples of oral literature in Turkish culture. The common point of the tales is to have fantastic expressions. The heroes are Turks, and they usually fight against different actants which can be real or abstract. Moreover, the tales put forward the form of life, moral and cultural values in Turks’ life. Among the tales, one of the most outstanding tales of Dede Korkut is The Story of Delu Dumrul that is read and interpreted in the sense of semiotics. In this study, we handle the struggles and testings of Deli Dumrul as an actant within the context of Paris Semiotic School’s actantial schema. It is a fact that folk tales have some special features such as good is always rewarded while bad is punished. By adhering to the literary semiotics perspective of the school, it is the point of departure of this research to reveal if the situation is valid for this epic tale. At the end of the research, the validity of the general fact belongs to the folk tales stated above is partly actualized in Deli Dumrul narrative. The state of the result in the narrative is solved by taking the support of the supernatural forces and religious values. In this case, the positive ending of the narrative depends on fulfilling the function of both belief and religion positively in the society.
Disiplinlerarası Bir Yaklaşımla Anlatıbilimden Göstergebilime Anlamlama Edimi
(2020) Kalelioğlu, Murat
Önceleri bir alana ait yaklaşım ve uygulama örnekçesiyle ele alınan ve açıklanmaya çalışılan anlatılar günümüzde farklı disiplinlerin değişik türden yaklaşım ve uygulama örnekçelerinin birlikte kullanılmasıyla daha kapsamlı hale gelmiştir. Disiplinlerarası çalışmaların en önemli avantajlarından biri belirli bir disipline ait çözümleme yöntem ve yaklaşımların yeterli olmadığı yerde diğer disiplinlere ait yöntem ve yaklaşımların araştırma sürecine destek vermesidir. Disiplinlerarası çalışmaların sunduğu bu avantaj sanat yapıtlarına ait dizgelerin incelenmesinde de geçerlidir. Söz konusu sanat olduğunda ise edebiyat eserlerinin sanat dizgesi içindeki önemi inkâr edilemez. Anlam evreninde belirli mesajlar barındıran ve üreticisi ile tüketicisi arasında bir iletişim köprüsü olma işlevi gören değişik türden edebiyat eserleri vardır. Bu eserlerin en önemli ortak yanı kurgusal anlatı olmalarıdır. Bu tür kurgusal anlatıların oluşum süreçlerini inceleyen kuramlar arasında anlatıbilim kuramı ve göstergebilim kuramı yer almaktadır. Uygulama süreçleri, çözümleme araçları ve izledikleri yöntem birbirinden farklı olsa da her iki disiplinin ortak noktası içinde anlam barındıran anlatısallaşmış yapıların incelenmesidir. Bu disiplinleri kendi dizgeleri içinde ele alarak ayrı ayrı iki farklı anlatı incelemesi yapılabilir. Ancak bu çalışmadaki temel amaç her iki disiplinin verilerinden yararlanarak birinin yöntem açısından eksik kaldığı yönü diğeri ile tamamlamaya çalışarak uygulanabilir bir çözümleme modeline ulaşmaktır.
Creating Society in Orwell’s 1984: A semiotic analysis of the notion of social transformation
(Chinese Semiotic Studies, 2018) Kalelioğlu, Murat
In this paper, the idea of constructing a new society in George Orwell’s 1984 is analyzed in the context of the Paris School’s semiotics trajectory. Saussurean legacy, which heavily sheds light on the semiotic conception of the school proposed by Greimas, asserts the significance of dichotomies for signs to gain their meaning. Accordingly, the study is grounded on the desired and non-desired contrariety to make the analysis with the semiotic square meaningful. It is possible to encounter the traces of the proposed idea pertaining to the struggle of forming an ideal society at all levels of meaning, predominantly at the deep level as the proposed idea represents the elementary meaning of the narrative, throughout the text. Considering the approach, desired society gains its meaning in the face of the non-desired one relativistically. Regarding the opposition theory of Saussure, what is good for the Party is not supposed to be good for the Opponents. For this reason, the idea of creating society is on the battleground, as there is an uphill fight between the ruling Party and the Opponents. The formation of desired society is revealed thanks to the semiotic square by focusing on both positive and negative transition processes. The really interesting aspect that we encountered is the vicious unended cycle and the war that will never end between the stated groups within the framework of the ideology/axiology perspective.
Göstergebilim Kuramının Genel Bir Değerlendirmesi, Türkiye’deki Yeri ve Önemi
(Söylem Filoloji Dergisi, 2021) Kalelioğlu, Murat
Günümüzde, birçok alanda üretilen anlamlı yapıları çözümleme yetisine sahip olan göstergebilim kuramı, gücünü aldığı temellerden dolayı, dünyanın birçok yerinde üretilen bilimsel çalışmalarla gerek bilimin gerekse günlük yaşamın farklı alanlarına uygulanabilmektedir. Geçmişte sadece nesneleri, olgu ve olayları temsil eden göstergeleri üretmekle sınırlı olan gösterge çalışmaları bugün artık göstergebilim kuramı adı altında eğitim bilimlerinden sağlık bilimlerine, fen bilimleri ve matematikten filolojiye, güzel sanatlardan sosyal ve beşeri bilimlere bilimin değişik alanlarında bilimsel bilgiyi üreten ve üretilen bilgiyi yeniden anlamlandıran bir yöntem hâline gelmiştir. Bu çalışmada uluslararası ölçekte akademik çevrelerde kabul gören, kendi gelişimini kendisi destekleyen, diğer bilim dalları ve alt alanlarıyla olan ilişkisinden dolayı farklı dizgeler arasında disiplinlerarası çalışmaların önünü açan çağdaş göstergebilim kuramının genel bir değerlendirmesi yapılmış ve kuramın üretilen çalışmalar çerçevesinde Türkiye’deki yeri ve önemi tartışılmıştır.
Multidisciplinary Approach to the Texts: Semiotic Analysis of the Process of Meaning Construction in O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi
(2018) Kalelioğlu, Murat
Semiotics covers a broad range of subjects since it has an enchanting multidisciplinary frame from language and culture to philosophy and science. Whatever the subject area is, the primary purpose of semiotics is the signification of all types of signs produced by societies. Language and literature which reflect the cultural richness of societies are the critical outcomes of that production process. Those disciplines are firmly relevant to the field of semiotics since they are formed with linguistic and non-linguistic signs. Regarding the analysis of the products, it is considered to gather various methods and combine them rationally to examine the texts with a multifaceted approach. Accordingly, it is determined to analyze the production process of the semantic universe of O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi in this study. The research has been carried out by taking advantage of the data from narratology and semiotics. Primarily, the text has been evaluated within the scope of narratology; first, it has been attempted to account for the narrative considering the theory of enunciation and then to put forward the basic structure of the text according to Larivaille’s five-staged narrative profile. Subsequently, in the analysis of the text, it has been made use of literary semiotics; at this point, the constituent elements of the narrative in different semantic stratums have been scrutinized as part of Paris School’s semiotics trajectory. In this regard, we had the opportunity to observe the formative elements of the text at the surface and deep levels of meaning and to explain how these elements are articulated with each other to create the fiction of the narrative as a meaningful whole. Greimas’s four-staged narrative programme, actantial schema, and semiotic square have been practiced in the analysis of the formative elements taking place at various meaning levels of the text. As a result, it has been attempted to find answers to the questions of how O. Henry created the semantic universe of the text, and of what the role of culture was in the creation of meaning in this universe.
Semiotics and political discourse in the post-truth era
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024) Kalelioğlu, Murat; Kalelioğlu, Murat; Günay, V. Doğan
The concept of post-truth has been on the world’s agenda since 2016. Perhaps this concept, which is frequently encountered in political life, provides the speaker with a freer speaking platform. Politicians, instead of presenting the reality to their constituents as it is, want to reshape this reality according to their own ideology and present it to the recipient. Politicians have certain objectives in creating such a virtual reality. These aims can be listed as keeping the voters, increasing the voting potential, and attracting undecided voters to their favor. The common result of all these aims is to gain political power or to remain in the existing power. Post-truth reality is constructed relatively more easily in social media environments. The construction of reality can be through beliefs or emotions. In such ways, the recipient is tried to be persuaded, and thus behavioral change is achieved. One of the most necessary subjects for this artificial reality atmosphere is the anti-subject. The idea that the anti-subject does not know the truth that we (you and I) know and believe and is trying to destroy it is the main theme of post-truth discourse. Politicians try to persuade the voters to believe in their own truth by expressing this idea to them. There are many examples of this around the world. In this study, firstly, the concept of post-truth is examined and its various definitions are discussed. The distinctions between the concepts of real and truth are analyzed and then it is explained how and for what purposes the concept of post-truth is used in politics. Following the comparison of post-truth and fake news, the concept is discussed within the framework of sender-receiver interaction in terms of communication. The concept is tried to be elucidated with the modalities such as /convincing/, /believing/, /being/, /appearing/. Besides, using the semiotic square, the study also tries to reveal the different purposes and forms of use of the concept of post-truth. As a result, it has been observed that the concept of post-truth is effective in many areas of contemporary societies, and rather than real information, expected and desired information has become more important.
Semiotic analysis of the affective domain of discourse: Projection of emotional transformations
(2021) Kalelioğlu, Murat
Literature is one of the most important representations of the artistic field, which is constructed by an extraordinary sequence of verbal and nonverbal signs. Short story is one of the genres of this area in which encountering various kinds of signs is possible through the production process. There are umpteen signs in relation to the attitudes of narrative persons in such stories. In such short story narratives, which are a linguistic message, many indications about the behavior and attitudes of the narrator can be encountered. These indicators are behavioral-emotional indicators that reveal the mood of narrative figures such as joy, enthusiasm, sadness, crying, hugging, and hugging. Nonverbal signs, sometimes, do not make sense alone. However, they are meaningful when they are used in a particular context to support the verbal signs, which displays contribution of the nonverbal signs to the meaning established with the verbal signs. What is significant here is the harmony of using nonverbal signs in conjunction with the verbal ones. If that congruence exists, the produced message becomes stronger and increases its effect; otherwise, the power and impact of the message decrease. Hence, the message becomes meaningless. In this study, how the affective domain of discourse is produced in short stories, and the contribution of nonverbal signs in the construction of meaning and emotional field is investigated. The research is carried out pursuant to the possibilities offered by semiotics of discourse approach, which explores and clarifies the inner world of the subject of enunciation, who produces discourse, the changing mood, and the forms of expressions of the subject in different situations and events in narratives. Throughout the study, affective domain of discourse and the stages of it –affective awakening stage, disposition stage, passional pivot stage, emotion stage, and moralization stage– are examined pursuant to semiotics of discourse approach, elaborated by Jacques Fontanille, who is one of the representatives of Paris School of Semiotics.
The Theory of Signification: Semiotic Criticism and Literature
(International Journal of Language Academy, 2017) Kalelioğlu, Murat
As a signification theory, semiotic criticism attracts considerable interest from researchers in different disciplines. Literature is one of the fields where the theory is used for signifying practices. Literary semiotics has emerged as a sub-discipline as a result of the efficient interaction between semiotics and literature. The process of meaning creation in texts can be elucidated through literary semiotics. Semiotics has idiosyncratic rules and concepts in its system to accomplish its goal that bars new researchers from benefiting the theory’s data in penetrating and unfolding different meaning stratums. This paper will argue the critical steps and tools of a systematized semiotic analysis within the process of signification to overcome such obstacles. The relationship between language and literature, literary semiotics and analysis tools will be addressed through the discussion of the historical development of sign studies within the scope of semiotics as a signification theory.
Political discourse and semiotics
(de Gruyter Mouton, 2024) Canakpinar, Betul; Kalelioglu, Murat; Gunay, Veli Dogan; Doğan, Yusuf; Kalelioğlu, Murat
In recent years, semiotics has put "life" at the center of the subject of study. There is the desire to be successful in the lifestyle and the desire to convey the right knowledge to the recipient or the correct use of practices in life. A semiotic theory developed by Jacques Fontanille recently showed that strategy can also be used in semiotic analysis. So, the way of life that Fontanille talks about is not just strategy. The process we call "lifestyle" has an order from small to large: There are basic signs, texts, objects, actants, practices, action phases, strategies, and finally lifestyle. In this study, we question the function of strategy, but generally of productive pursuit, in the analysis of political discourses. In our study, we reveal the approach of semiotics to political discourses that concern the whole world and discuss whether they are valid in every society. We emphasize political semiotics, which is used to understand the general structure of political discourses, and show the general functioning of political discourses with Greimas' Actantial Model. We conclude that politicians can influence target audiences by using various methods and discourse strategies.