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A CORPUS-BASED STUDY ON HUMOUR: A CASE OF CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

MİZAHIN DERLEM TEMELLİ İNCELENMESİ: ÇAĞDAŞ RUS GENÇLİK EDEBİYATI ÖRNEĞİ

Olena Kozan(ANKARA HACI BAYRAM VELİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ)0000-0002-7956-4567
Pages
279–300
Publication Date
2025-11-03
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The findings reveal that humour emerges from semantic shifts, stylistic incongruity, and allusions.

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Objective & Hypothesis:his study explores the mechanisms of verbal humour in contemporary Russian young adult literature through a corpus-based approach.
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his study explores the mechanisms of verbal humour in contemporary Russian young adult literature through a corpus-based approach. It aims to determine how humour is embedded within the linguistic structure and to suggest a systematic methodology for its annotation. The analysis draws on a representative sample of Russian young adult fiction, A Diary of a Cat Sapiens by Tamara Kryukova, which is characterized by diverse semantic layers and cultural references. The methodology combines close reading with manual annotation, and corpus analysis using AntConc. The findings reveal that humour emerges from semantic shifts, stylistic incongruity, and allusions. The study concludes that annotated texts, enriched with linguistic and cultural commentary, serve as valuable resources for Russian language learners and translator training programs. It further recommends incorporating generative models to improve the annotation and analysis of humour.

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Bu çalışmada çağdaş Rus gençlik edebiyatında sözel mizahın işleyiş mekanizmaları derlem temelli bir yaklaşımla incelenmektedir. Araştırmanın temel amacı, mizahın dilsel yapıya nasıl yerleştiğini belirlemek ve bu unsurların sistematik biçimde etiketlenmesine yönelik bir yaklaşım ortaya koymaktır. İnceleme, çeşitli anlam katmaları ve kültürel göndermeleri içeren, Rus gençlik edebiyatından temsilî bir örnek olarak Tamara Kryukova’nın Bir Kedi Sapiens’in Günlüğü adlı eserine dayanmaktadır. Yöntem olarak yakın okuma, manuel etiketleme ve AntConc yazılımı ile yapılan derlem analizi bir arada kullanılmaktadır. Bulgular, mizahın anlamsal kaymalar, üslup uyuşmazlıkları ve anıştırmalar aracılığıyla biçimlendirildiği göstermektedir. Çalışmada, etiketlenmiş ve dil kullanımına ve kültür özelliklerine ışık tutan açıklamalarla desteklenen metinlerin hem Rusçayı yabancı dil olarak öğrenenler hem de çevirmen adayları için önemli kaynak olabileceği sonucuna varılmaktadır. Mizahın daha derinlemesine çözümlenebilmesi ve etiketlenmesi için üretken modellerin potansiyelinin araştırılması gerektiği ileri sürülmektedir.

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Kozan, O. (2025). A CORPUS-BASED STUDY ON HUMOUR: A CASE OF CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Sayı: 71, 279–300. https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.1711461

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