Abstract:

Titles are the most read section of an academic article. They have the power to make a positive or negative effect on the availability / selectivity of publications. Those features have increased the importance given to the titles in academia. As a matter of fact, a vast literature on titles has been produced in Western literature with studies starting from the last quarter of the 20th century. So much so that nowadays a field called “titlelogy” has begun to be mentioned. However, the titles are not one of the more studied topics in Turkish literature. In this study, the use of punctuation marks in academic article titles in the field of history written in Turkey Turkish between 1937-2016 has been investigated from a diachronic, corpus based point of view. From the findings it has been questioned whether the use of punctuation marks in academic titles is an individual attitude or a periodic tendency and similarities and differences of the periods are revealed

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