Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Milli Folklor, cilt.146, ss.41-53, 2025 (AHCI)
In scientific studies conducted in different fields starting from the 1990s, a pluralist (multiple) approach began to dominate instead of a monist point of view. As a result of this approach, an understanding of using the data of different disciplines has emerged in the explanation of a scientific concept belonging to a field or in the solution of a problem. This understanding endows scientific research with a multi-dimensional and creative quality in terms of the results they achieve. Over time, the pluralistic impact became pronounced in the field of literature, as in other fields. Undoubtedly, an interdisciplinary approach is essential for a field that concerns people in every aspect, such as literature. It is particularly significant for a genre like folk poetry, which challenges the limits of emotions and thoughts in terms of language, sounds/words, and where thoughts overflow beyond language. Further, folk poetry represents a traditional sense and utterance through the functions it has undertaken in different eras and different cultures, which may be the main reason for its numerous dimensions. The functions of folk poetry and its multi-dimensionality bring the need to reflect on folk poetry texts from the perspective of different approaches. Recognizing the importance of interdisciplinary information exchange, this study focuses on folk poetry, which is considered to be the origin of literary genres, from an interdisciplinary perspective, based on the data of linguistics and psychology. For this reason, this study conceptually discusses poetry, which is an ancient literary genre, and addresses its characteristics in connection with the primary hypothesis of this study. Folk poetry has a style of expression and sense characterized by the use of metaphori cal language. This can be explained based on the concept of performance and project rules introduced by Noam Chomsky to folk science studies. Performance, which defines the conceptual framework of the basic parameters that enable performance particularly in folk poetry, plays a major role in bringing sound and meaning closer together. To elaborate on this strong interaction between sound and meaning, this study focuses on the concepts of phonosemy – phonostem. Another key function of metaphor in folk poetry, where oral transmission is originally fundamental, is that it performs dual-coding in memory. This dual-coding system can be associated with the processes of reconstructing poetry such as storing in memory, recalling, and stereotyping in the oral culture environment, which are mentioned in the works based on the "Oral-Formulaic Theory" proposed by Milman Parry and then improved by Albert B. Lord. Another dimension of folk poetry is about how figurative language uses such as similes in folk poetry transform two-dimensional language signs into three-dimensional. Apart from these linguistic dimensions, psychological features also constitute a key dimension of folk poetry. For this reason, this study concentrates on folk poetry using the data revealed by psychology, mostly in the 20th century. This study applies the Joharry window test, which is a communication model about how people perceive themselves and others and intends to measure the level of consciousness, on some examples of folk poetry. Using the data of psychology on memory, this study compares the line lengths of the verses in folk poetry with the capacity range of short-term memory. This study also associates rhyme and similar elements with rhythmic features in folk poetry with the concept of "rhythm", highlighted by the Gestalt theory in research on memory. Data pertaining to these disciplines are supported in this study by the selected examples of Turkish folk poetry.