TÜRKÇEDE VERİLEN BİLGİNİN KAYNAĞINA İLİŞKİN TUTUMU BELİRTEN DİLSEL DÜZENEKLER

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The main objective of communication is to transfer knowledge among people. During this transfer the speaker or writer also transfers some clues revealing his/her personal feelings, beliefs and attitude related to the source and reliability of the knowledge. This phenomenon of marking source and reliability, which is performed with different linguistic devices and grammatical structures in different languages, is called ‘evidentiality’. Although there are grammaticalized linguistic structures to serve only as evidential markers in some languages, in many other languages linguistic devices used for other functions fulfill evidential functions as well. The latter case is also true for Turkish. In this study after defining what evidentiality is, it is tried to determine which linguistic devices are used for this function with the help of the studies carried out in Turkish so far. In this sense, it is possible to say that this study is to first to index the linguistic devices with evidential meaning in Turkish.