Interpersonal Metadiscourse Markers in Turkish Election Rally Speeches Delivered by Pro-Turkish and Pro- Kurdish Leaders

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the use of interpersonal metadiscourse markers in Turkish election rally speeches delivered by two political leaders who pursued differently the ideology of nationalism and also the role of the metadiscourse markers in the reflection of the scope and nature of political parties' nationalist ideologies.In line with the aim of the study, the research has a descriptive survey design, using qualitative and quantitative approaches.The data for the study involves four election rally speeches: Two by Devlet Bahçeli and two by Selahattin Demirtaş in the span of the election year 2015.For the data analysis portion of the study, the finite verbs of the statements from the party leaders are abstracted and entered into the Nooj corpus processing system.Drawing on Dafouz's (2008) classification of interpersonal metadiscourse markers, a data analysis is done.Quantitative and qualitative methods are applied to identify the frequency of the metadiscourse markers used in the data.Moreover, the chi-square test is used to determine if there is meaningful difference between the two political leaders' usage of the metadiscourse markers.Results reveal that although both party leaders use similiar interpersonal metadiscourse markers in their election rally speeches, the metadiscourse markers have different functions due to their ideological viewpoints.

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