Abstract:

For this study, some questions such as what are the places of interjections in linguistic, how do interjections gain meaning, what are their common or different characteristics in German and Turkish have been set out. Interjections are linguistic elements that are used mostly in the spoken language and whose meanings are generally gained in the context in which they are used. And cartoons with their visual and textual dimensions are the most appropriate printed communication tools, because they create the concept which allows a sign to gain its meaning. Because of these features, interjections and cartoons constitute the main study topics discussed in this study. For that discussion and a subsequent analysis German and Turkish cartoon couples containing an interjection were matched and compared. While doing this, the emotions and features of interjections such as joy, sadness, disgust, confusion and demand are taken into account. In the study, the expressions of interjections in German and Turkish cartoons; their formal and semantic features are handled and compared. In the applied comparison made after the linguistic theoretical explanations, the selected cartoons and the interjections in both languages ​​were examined in terms of semiotic, semantic and pragmatic aspects, analyzed and interpreted with the help of the tables. The result of the research shows that, while the texts in German cartoons in terms of picture-text relation, show more complementarity and redundancy; the texts in Turkish cartoons show generally dependence. It was determined that more figure of speech was used in Turkish cartoon texts, and that the interjections exhibited meaning-differentiating and linguistic function enhancing features.

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