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It is known that the proverbs and idioms help us to elicit information about socio-cultural structure, history and the way of life of a society. It is thought that proverbs and idioms carry a significant importance in formation of mankind’s standard of judgement. Because, it is a known fact that the language that is used and manner of discourse, in a long period of time, establish a ground for specific culture to be formed and transfer that culture to the next generations through families. It is seen within the context of this study that modernity considers human being as fetishism of Meta and degrade human being into the level of assets which feminists criticize severely and it is also seen that some proverbs and idioms marginalize women. To that end, the proverbs and idioms such as woman, girl, bride, avrat (an old usage for wife), dilber (an old usage for belle – beautiful woman)… etc. that are mentioned in the website of Turkish Language Society have been generally analyzed. Discrimination against women among sons and daughters, marginalizing in terms of physical differences and being belonged, deficiency in proportion to men, forcing to marry without asking their opinion, double standard, preconceived opinion, mentioning them together with animals, conceive them with ethical terms, desiring to have a boy… etc. The objective of this essay is to analyze whether the proverbs and idioms that are being transferred from mouth to mouth are behind the violence against women in Turkey which we see on the news every day and to call public attention to this. It is thought that the proverbs and idioms which are extant by being inherited from generation to generation are influential in violence against women. In a society, the creation and the transfer of the content of knowledge are done through rhetorical relation. This transfer is named “connecting a language to another”. This means using the language that has been developed by others historically and socially and benefiting from the historical and cultural accumulation that the language contains within itself. Language, containing the existing relations that are based on power, transfers the power based relation together with itself just because the knowledge producing and transferring feature of language. It may be considered that as proverbs and idioms are used very widely in daily language, some negative emotions that are stemming from expression could send messages to the subconscious. The i

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