%0 Journal Article %T ON THE PUNCTUATION OF THE ST KLAL MAR I (THE INDEPENDENCE MARCH) (THE TURKISH NATIONAL ANTHEM) ST KLAL MAR I¡¯NIN NOKTALAMASI %A Faysal Okan ATASOY %J Turkish Studies %D 2010 %I Turkish studies publisher %X This study aims to analysis the linguistics of Punctuation of ¡°The stiklal Mar ¡± (The Independence March) that is the Turkish National Anthem. In this work, it¡¯s emphasized that all punctuation marks which were used in the anthem text by its Poet, contribute the meaning of text, or affect on style of speaking; besides, suitable or wrongly usages. In this work, it¡¯s tried to answer some questions that¡¯s are about the usages of punctuation marks in this text: The punctuation of this text whether to be altered or not by considering the meaning, or style of speaking, also intonation. In this work it¡¯s used the descriptive method, and it¡¯s tried to analysis the linguistics of The Poet¡¯s usages of punctuations in this text. It is tried to be ascertained that the Poet¡¯s punctuation marks and alterations which were made by Hasan EREN, are compared; and which one of this was used for meaning or intonation, and who is used what for? As a result of the analysis it can be said that the punctuation marks were used by The Poet for meaning more than intonation. Bu al ma, stiklal Mar i inde noktalama i aretlerinin kullan l mant n zmeyi ama lamaktad r. al mada, airin tercih etti i i aretlerin, anlama katk s , s yleyi e etkisi; yerinde veya yanl kullan l ¨¹zerinde durulmu tur. Metnin noktalanmas okuyu a, anlama veya seslendiri e g re de i ir mi, de i mez mi sorular na cevap aranm t r. al mada betimleyici ara t rma y ntemi uygulanm , metinde airin kulland noktalama i aretlerinin mant z¨¹lmeye al lm t r. airin noktalamas yla Hasan Eren taraf ndan yap lan de i iklikler kar la t r lm ; i aretlerin anlama g re mi okuyu a g re mi kondu u tespit edilmeye al lm t r. Sonu ta airin noktalama i aretlerini daha ok anlama g re koydu u tespit edilmi tir. %K Analysis of punctuation %K Independence March %K stiklal Mar %K The Turkish National Anthem %K text analysis Noktalama tahlili %K stiklal Mar %K T¨¹rk Milli Mar %K Metin tahlili %U http://www.turkishstudies.net/Makaleler/253649601_36atasoy_faysal_okan.pdf