Is French a Dying Language?  A Discourse Analysis on Discussions About the Topic on Twitter

Aysun Avcı; Aziza Akramova; Erdoğan Kartal

Makale detayları

Is French a Dying Language? A Discourse Analysis on Discussions About the Topic on Twitter

Yazarlar:

Aysun Avcı | Aziza Akramova | Erdoğan Kartal

Yayıncı:

Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebi Çalışmalar (Diğer)

Dergi:

Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi Vol.5 Issue 2, pp.144-161

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2023

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001308163

pISSN:

2687-5586

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Özet:

 Today, Twitter is one of the most popular and widely-used social media tools in Turkey as well as all over the world. This interactive environment, through which users can instantly share and discuss their opinions and thoughts about current issues, especially on the domestic and world agenda, has evolved into a huge platform in record time. Discussions on this environment are through tweets on current topics and comments made by quoting these tweets or retweeting. Such discussions are important in understanding the role of Twitter as a social media tool in setting the agenda and its place in the culture of social discussion. Using discourse analysis, this study aims to reveal what a news posted on Twitter makes its users think, what emotional effect it creates on them, and how this is reflected in the comments made on the relevant news. To that end, drawing on Herrings 2004 computer-mediated discourse analysis approach, this study examines the 107 comments tweets made on a tweet of Selçuk Tepeli, who is the prime-time anchorman of Fox TV, one of the national television channels in Turkey; this tweet was shared by Tepeli on 25.10.2022, accompanied by a short video from his own newscast, became one of the most hot topics of the day under the agenda of Twitter and was as follows: Among the languages living in the world, English ranks first and Turkish ranks second. French is one of the dying languages. It is best not to talk about something without knowing it...

 Today, Twitter is one of the most popular and widely-used social media tools in Turkey as well as all over the world. This interactive environment, through which users can instantly share and discuss their opinions and thoughts about current issues, especially on the domestic and world agenda, has evolved into a huge platform in record time. Discussions on this environment are through tweets on current topics and comments made by quoting these tweets or retweeting. Such discussions are important in understanding the role of Twitter as a social media tool in setting the agenda and its place in the culture of social discussion. Using discourse analysis, this study aims to reveal what a news posted on Twitter makes its users think, what emotional effect it creates on them, and how this is reflected in the comments made on the relevant news. To that end, drawing on Herrings 2004 computer-mediated discourse analysis approach, this study examines the 107 comments tweets made on a tweet of Selçuk Tepeli, who is the prime-time anchorman of Fox TV, one of the national television channels in Turkey; this tweet was shared by Tepeli on 25.10.2022, accompanied by a short video from his own newscast, became one of the most hot topics of the day under the agenda of Twitter and was as follows: Among the languages living in the world, English ranks first and Turkish ranks second. French is one of the dying languages. It is best not to talk about something without knowing it...

 Today, Twitter is one of the most popular and widely-used social media tools in Turkey as well as all over the world. This interactive environment, through which users can instantly share and discuss their opinions and thoughts about current issues, especially on the domestic and world agenda, has evolved into a huge platform in record time. Discussions on this environment are through tweets on current topics and comments made by quoting these tweets or retweeting. Such discussions are important in understanding the role of Twitter as a social media tool in setting the agenda and its place in the culture of social discussion. Using discourse analysis, this study aims to reveal what a news posted on Twitter makes its users think, what emotional effect it creates on them, and how this is reflected in the comments made on the relevant news. To that end, drawing on Herrings 2004 computer-mediated discourse analysis approach, this study examines the 107 comments tweets made on a tweet of Selçuk Tepeli, who is the prime-time anchorman of Fox TV, one of the national television channels in Turkey; this tweet was shared by Tepeli on 25.10.2022, accompanied by a short video from his own newscast, became one of the most hot topics of the day under the agenda of Twitter and was as follows: Among the languages living in the world, English ranks first and Turkish ranks second. French is one of the dying languages. It is best not to talk about something without knowing it...

 ÖZET Günümüzde tüm dünyada olduğu gibi ülkemizde de en yaygın ve sık kullanılan sosyal medya araçlarının başında Twitter gelmektedir. Kullanıcılarının özellikle ülke ve dünya gündemine dair güncel konular hakkında görüş ve düşüncelerini anlık olarak paylaşıp tartışabildikleri bu etkileşimli ortam, çok kısa bir zaman içerisinde devasa bir platform halini almıştır. Söz konusu ortamda tartışmalar, genellikle gündem olan konulara dair atılan tweetler ve bu tweetlerin alıntılanarak altına yapılan yorumlar ya da retweet edilmesi yoluyla gerçekleşmektedir. Bu tartışmaların, Twitterın bir sosyal medya aracı olarak gündem belirlemedeki rolü ve toplumsal tartışma kültüründeki yerini anlamak açısından önem taşıdığı düşünülmektedir. Bu çalışmada, Twitter ortamında duyurulan bir haberin okunduğu anda kullanıcılarına neler düşündürdüğü, üzerlerinde nasıl bir duygusal etki yarattığı ve sonuçta bunun ilgili habere yapılan yorumlara nasıl yansıdığının söylem çözümlemesi yoluyla incelenerek ortaya konması amaçlanmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, Herring 2004in bilgisayar aracılı söylem çözümlemesi yaklaşımıyla, Türkiyedeki ulusal televizyon kanallarından biri olan Fox TVnin Ana Haber sunucusu Selçuk Tepelinin kendi haber programından kısa bir video eşliğinde 25.10.2022 tarihinde paylaştığı, Twitterın gündem başlığı altında yer alan ve aynı zamanda günün en çok tartışılan konuları arasında yer alan: Dünyada yaşayan diller arasında İngilizce birinci, Türkçe ikinci sırada. Fransızca ise ölen diller arasında gösteriliyor. Bazı şeyleri ezbere konuşmamak lazım başlıklı tweetine yapılan 107 yorum tweet incelenmiştir.

Makale detayları

Is French a Dying Language? A Discourse Analysis on Discussions About the Topic on Twitter

Yazarlar:

Aysun Avcı | Aziza Akramova | Erdoğan Kartal

Yayıncı:

Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebi Çalışmalar (Diğer)

Dergi:

Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi Vol.5 Issue 2, pp.144-161

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2023

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001308163

pISSN:

2687-5586

Twitter

discourse analysis

language and nationalism

FrenchTwitter

söylem çözümlemesi

dil ve milliyetçilik

Fransızca

Sayı

Makale detayları

Yazarlar: Aysun Avcı | Aziza Akramova | Erdoğan Kartal

Yayıncı: Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University

Ana Başlıklar: Edebi Çalışmalar (Diğer)

Dergi: Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi Vol.5 Issue 2, pp.144-161

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2023

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2001308163

pISSN: 2687-5586

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Aysun Avcı | Aziza Akramova | Erdoğan Kartal

Yayıncı:

Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebi Çalışmalar (Diğer)

Dergi:

Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi Uluslararası Filoloji ve Çeviribilim Dergisi Vol.5 Issue 2, pp.144-161

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2023

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001308163

pISSN:

2687-5586