Vol. 69 No. 2 (2021)
Articles

Turkish Patronymic Surnames Ending with -o?lu ‘Son of: A Corpus Linguistic Investigation

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  • Gülden Tüm
Gülden Tüm
Cukurova University
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Cover of Names Volume 69 Number 2 May 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/names.2021.2278

Published 2021-05-14

Keywords

  • patronymy,
  • surnames,
  • anthroponymy,
  • cognition,
  • Turkey,
  • meta-language awareness,
  • foreign language instruction,
  • onomastics
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Abstract

This study examines Turkish patronymic surnames ending with the suffix -o?lu ‘son of.’ For this examination, this investigation compiled three corpora of Turkish surnames (N = 10,369) representative of the Turkish population. The aim of this corpus analysis was the identification of the conceptual and grammatical functional elements of these surnames as markers of linguistic and cultural diversity within Turkey. The findings reveal that the Turkish patronymic surnames did not merely denote the name of someone’s father. They also reflect manifold cognitive diversity and express meta-language awareness of Turkey’s intercultural richness. Consequently, this article contends that integrating insights gained from surname research into the foreign language classroom may assist learners of Turkish in overcoming language and cultural barriers. As this study concludes, the findings presented here and in analogous research can help language learners gain a better understanding of the meanings and cultural symbolism embedded in names.

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