A Content Analysis on Turkish Proverbs and Idioms Concerned with the Act of Listening, and Listening as a Communicative Act
Articles > Article · 2012
Authors: Şadiye Emet GÜREL, Merba Tat
Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi, Refereed Journals of Other Institutions, International, MLA International Bibliography, 2012, vol 5, pp 267-288
Summary
<p>The scope of this study is to convey the act of listening, the fundamental feature of affective communication, and to analyze it through Turkish proverbs and idioms. To do so, listening is primarily focused on as a communicative act, and explicated as a term. And following that, the duration and the variation of the act of listening is discussed. This study reaches to a conclusion on the basis of the method of content analysis on Turkish proverbs and idioms concerned with the act of listening.</p><p><strong>Key Words: </strong>Communication, Listening, Turkish, Proverb, Idiom, Content Analysis.</p>