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Abstract

In this study the contribution of the words in the paranthesis to the text, their semantic values and grammatic values will be studied. Theatre scripts are primarily written to be played and put on the stage. Author, transmits the plot to the audiences through the dialogues of heros. The text, which is written in the form of dialogue, gets across with author- reader and author- director- actors- audience. In a drama, personal nouns which show the change of the speaker; time and place words and the words that indicate the emotions and the moves of the people can not be included into the text. These expressions, which can be accepted as diggressions, both provide the reader to envisage the stage and lead the director and the actors in the process of staging. Can the words, conveying semantic value but kept out of the speeches in the context of syntax, be counted as non-textual? Perhaps these words might be thought as a common style of a drama and as a stereotyped form of expression, In this study words types, wordgroups, phrase types and moods which are used as diggressions or non-textual speeches in Turkish will be examined with respect to Haldun Taner’s “Keşanlı Ali Destanı”.