Özet:

This study has been made in order to introduce the concept of modernism, to denote how it is perceived by various disciplines, and finally, to find out what metaphors regarding modernism are used by Turkish language teacher candidates. The study carries importance in its attempt to determine how familiar the teacher candidates are with this concept, as the individuals who are going to raise the future generations, and what they conceive of Modernism, a concept that takes part in several disciplines. The research group of the study consists of 150 teacher candidates who have attended the department of Turkish Language Teaching during the Autumn semester of the 2016-2017 educational year. To collect the data, the students have been asked the question “What is Modernism?” and expected to give a single answer to it; at the second stage, they have been given the statement beginning as “Modernism is like…because….” and expected to fill in the blanks. The research has sought to expose what metaphors they relate to the concept of “modernism,” and under what conceptual categories the metaphors of the teacher candidates can be collected. Within the frame of the anwers provided, the metaphors have been presented under three categories: “metaphors related to contemporary life,” “metaphors that invoke negative emotions,” and “art-related metaphors.” In the second stage, which requires the incomplete sentence to be fulfiled, the metaphors have been charted out under seven categories as follows and analysed accordingly: “Keeping up with the contemporary age,” “Technology,” “Smart Phones,” “Top Model Cars,” “The Non-Traditional,” Women,” and “Wannabe.”

Anahtar Kelimeler: