Some occurences of word erroneouses in certain performances of Turkish folk poetry

Abstract

The formal and contextual features of Turkish folk poetry are shaped by some traditional principles. In addition to the formal elements structuring a poem, there are conventional ways of expression creating the essence of it. Many of these conventional dictions have a formal feature, since they are stereotyped. Folk poets who intend to offer a work in the field of Turkish folk poetry, or informants who convey such dichtungs, practitioners and researchers must know well these conventional modes of expressing and formal dictions. We encounter with some erroneous applications in literature and oral performances of Turkish folk poems. The main reason of these erroneous applications is not only some defective transmissions of those informants but also the collectors and researchers who do not know much the elaborateness (or details) of folk language and culture. We observe that there are many verbal mistakes in the performance of folk poems in the field of Turkish folk music. Certainly, accepting the exact pronouncement of informants or specialists in the field of folk literature is the appropriate method. But, this should not mean that we can 'make the wrong one common'. Turkish folk songs, which will be universalized in both national and global dimensions, must be filtered by a national cultural review. For this reason, especially the researchers must know the details of folk language, the style of its usage and the features of local vernaculars. There is a traditional aesthetic understanding in wording of Turkish folk poems. Turkish poems are formed and carried on by this conventional aesthetic style. Turkish folk poem performers and researchers must pay great attention to this aesthetic understanding.