Abstract:

Folk narratives that shed light on Turkish cultural history are perfect and multifunctional products of collective consciousness. One of these is the jokes that tell a lot with few words and make people think while making them laugh. Ordinary events in daily life have gained an extraordinary appearance thanks to special characters and formed the joke genre. These special characters are either known all over the world, known only in the Turkish world, or known only in the region and region where they live. The term "local type" is used for the types recognized only in the region and locality where they live. One of the types recognized only in the region and locality where he lives is Baravli, which refers to the inhabitants of Barav (Çukurca) village in Tunceli's Pertek district. Baravlı, who comes to the forefront in jokes mostly with his naivety, belongs to the Şavak tribe living in provinces such as Tunceli, Erzincan and Malatya. The cultural codes of the Shavak tribe, which leads a nomadic lifestyle, are reflected in Baravlı jokes, which can be included in Turkish joke types. The jokes are told in villages such as Yenimahalle, Cebe, Sarıbalta, which are connected to Çemişgezek district and belong to the Şavak tribe. In this study, Baravlı jokes compiled by us in 2015 in Sarıbalta village were analyzed. The jokes were both structurally analyzed and evaluated according to the incompatibility theory, one of the theories of laughter. The number of jokes structurally analyzed in terms of person cast, time, place, language, style and evaluated within the scope of incompatibility theory is seven. The Baravlı type, which is handled from two different aspects with his jokes, will be introduced to the literature on the occasion of this study.

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