PLANT NAMES IN SLANG
ARGODA BİTKİ ADLARI

Author : Nilay YAYLAĞAN
Number of pages : 73-85

Abstract

Slang is a special language which belongs to different work groups, age groups and rowdies. Slang, which has an important place in the ocean of the Turkish language, from time to time benefits from plant names that are assigned new meaning with the help of metaphors. Halil Ersoylu classifies the plant names in his book called “Türk Argosu Üzerine İncelemeler”. As for this study, all plant names in slang are classified and examined according to structure.The purpose is to bring all plant names being used in slang together and examine them.In the first part, plant names are separated by species as ornamental plant names, vegetable names, fruit names, general plant names (ot, çalı, çiçek etc.), aquatic plants etc. , in the second part, the ones which are made up of one word, become formed with one word or one verb, or make a word group or use suffixes are separated.142 slang words benefit from plant names have been examined. The number of plant species in this study is 69.51 plant names are used as nominative without changing the form or without any suffixes.

Keywords

Turkish Language, Slang, Plant Names

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