THREE STATES OF THE SUBJECT IN SPEECH PRESENTATIONS ACCORDING TO THE THEORY OF ENUNCIATION

• Published in: Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken 2023-08, Vol.15 (2), p.15-32
• Main Author: ŞAHİN, Ufuk
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1869-2338; 1868-8934
• DOI: 10.46291/ZfWT/150202

This article aims to analyze some examples of speech presentation selected from Prof. Dr. Efrasiyap Gemalmaz's corpus study named Erzurum İli Ağızları, published in 1995, in the light of the "split subject" theory developed by the French linguists Oswald Ducrot and Dominique Mainguenea. After giving explanations about the concepts of utterance and enunciation, the origins, main principles and concepts of enunciation theory, the study focuses on the theory of "split subject" and analyzes the cited examples in detail. Upon a close examination, it has been observed that sixteen examples of speech presentation taken from the memory of his military service told by a real person present examples of indirect speech, free direct speech and narrative report of speech, particularly direct speech. In all of the examples, Efrasiyap Gemalmaz, who transcribed the speeches, is the speaking subject. Kâzım Ceylan, who takes on the role of the first person narrator, is the primary locutor who performs the enunciation process, as well as the enunciator in most of the utterances quoted. In some instances, different persons are assigned as the secondary locutor, the primary and secondary enunciators. Thus, this study tries to show that the combination of or relationship between French enunciation theory and speech presentation offers readers, students, and stylisticians a different way of understanding and analyzing communication in a non literary text. Key Words: Ducrot, Maingueneau, “split subject”, Gemalmaz, enunciation