Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
İSTANBUL ÜNIVERSITESI EDEBIYAT FAKÜLTESI TÜRK DILI VE EDEBIYATI DERGISI (TÜDED), cilt.61, sa.2, ss.631-646, 2021 (ESCI)
Transition periods mark important milestones in a person's life. They show us that our lives are evolving into a new period. Birth, marriage, and death are the most important of these. Marriage in Turkish culture begins with the groom's family asking the bride's family to give their daughter's hand. Next, comes the engagement and then the wedding and finally post-wedding visits. In the field of Turkish language and literature, the concept of 'metaphor' was initially met with the concepts of mecaz and istiare. Lakoff and Johnson, however, describe 'metaphor' as the understanding of one thing through another. A concept can either take on or allude to another meaning in line with analogy or comparison. While traditional and cultural elements can prove effective in serving that exact purpose, so can the individual inventions of people/artists. This study focuses on the word 'bridge' in Turkish folk songs as a metaphor referring to marriage. The bridge not only connects the two sides and embodies strength, but also the crossing of a bridge symbolizes marriage as a transition period. Context is very important in interpreting metaphors. It is seen that some of the folk songs given as examples in this study are sung during henna nights. These folk song samples have an important place in the interpretation of the metaphorical meaning of the word 'bridge'.