Türkçede İşlek Bir Metaforik Neoloji Öbeği: X+Kafası

Abstract

Widespread access to social media ensures that new and emergent coinages are noticed by population masses, attain domains of usage, and strengthen their place within a language. Of such new linguistic constructs, metaphorical neologisms are usually most adopted and frequently used. The present study aims to examine the x + head phrase structure widely used in Turkish and to evaluate its semantic properties. Examples semantically identical to this structure are included in the linguistic database through the Turkish National Corpus. The appearance of such phrases was observed on different social media platforms. Additionally, the opinions of people were sought on the use of this structure in social interactions. Further, the differences between the usage of the mentioned structure on its own and its use within a context were measured via a survey.