Özet:

Human beings have felt positive and sometimes negative anxiety about both themselves and the unknown things around them since the moment they existed. People have always wondered about their chances and what awaits them in the future. The anxiety-mixed curiosity, which also affected the history of humanity, revealed the fields of occupation and professions such as fortune-telling, priesthood, magic, witchcraft. Respected in ancient Sumer, China, Egypt and Roman civilizations with their thousands of years of history and mysterious aspects, these professionals have been in palaces alongside powerful rulers who wondered about their future. These tasks were performed by shamans and kams in ancient Turkish history. Kam and shamans, who are believed to have superhuman mysterious abilities such as getting news from the future, knowing the auspicious and evil, and healing diseases, have undertaken a kind of seer. These people, who gained respect among Turkish people with their skills, were also interested in fortune-telling. People who stand with respectable socially accepted people like the king have preserved their dignity in the eyes of their interlocutors. Fortune-telling, which is one of the oldest professions in the world, has also found recognition among Turks. Fortune telling, which corresponds to körüm and ırk in the ancient Turkish period, was accepted enough to create independent works. There are fortune telling texts showing fortune telling and divination rites with various luck symbols such as arrows, bars, shoulder bone and dice. Written with Köktürk letters, the first alphabet of the Turks, the oldest manuscript currently available is Irk Bitig, a fortune-telling text. The existence of fortune-telling texts called Körüm Bitig during the Uyghurs period shows that these practices continue. Fortune telling practices and discourses, which seem to have reached an advanced stage, can be understood from the sight of the profession name körümçi "fortune-teller", which shows that this work is done by skilled hands. In the detailed language of fortune-telling texts, discourses that will motivate, persuade and make them happy have been developed for those who wonder about their luck. Among the portents that are generally regarded as non-religious by field researchers, there are alkış (prayer) and kargış (curse) discourses. According to common belief, praise and curse seen in religious texts are seen as stereotypes even in the oldest discourses of Turkish people. Although the fortune-telling texts seem like discourses developed between only two people, they actually address a wide area and vocabulary that concerns all the objects that people can see around them and their living space. Motivating the interlocutor with good wishes by hoping for luck makes it necessary to make an important application statement in terms of sustainability. In exactly this case, praise will help the person who sees the chance (körümçi). The desired and motivated state of the person whose perception has been directed is open to all positive discourses about his luck (male or female). From this point of view, praise are speech acts that should be included in fortune telling texts. In this study, Old Turkish fortune telling texts will be examined in terms of praise and curse discourse and examples of discourse will be determined. The samples obtained will be evaluated with the method of discourse analysis. The detection of the presence of expressions such as goodwill, praise and cursing and curse seen in fortune-telling texts will change our perspective on this genre. The handling of such texts that are regarded as non-religious and ignored from this point of view will also make us think that the classification of this genre should be reconsidered.

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