Abstract
In the research, based on the examples of Turkish folk tales, legends and folk songs, the deviations from the subject during the performance and the changes in the oral tradition products were evaluated in the axis of İlhan Başgöz's work, which is the subject of the article. The "digression", which took place when the narrator wanted to see himself as a part of the narrative, gave the opportunity to new verbal creations. In this sense, there have been changes in the products of oral tradition. In the research, the deviations from the subject during the performance and the changes in the oral tradition products were evaluated in the axis of the article, based on the examples of Turkish folk tales, legends, and ballads. My advisor Prof. Başgöz published a major digression research which is often referred to by the American scholars in the Journal of American Folklore. In this paper I will do first, and necessarily, a critical analysis of Başgöz’s article and then I will report my own observation concerning digression based on the data I collected in Turkey in the Summer of 2009 when I worked on my incomplete. Also, apart from the compilations, the content on "digression" in my master's thesis, which I completed under the supervision of Başgöz, was briefly mentioned in the study. My data deals with the digression in folksongs, legends and the daily conversation.
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