Söylem Filoloji Dergisi

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One of the works of great importance in terms of Turkish language, literature, history and culture is the Dede Korkut Book. The work, which has been handled in many ways so far, has opened the door to new studies with the recently discovered Günbed manuscript. This manuscript, which was found in the city of Günbed in the Turkmen Sahara region of Iranian's Gulistan province, also provided access to new information about the work. The most striking aspect of the manuscript is that there is a narrative (epos) called Salur Kazan's Killing the Seven-Headed Dragon and which was not present in the previous copies. In this study, the narrative of Salur Kazan's Killing the Seven-Headed Dragon is discussed in the context of the speech act theory of pragmatics. Pragmatics can be briefly defined as the branch of linguistics that examines the relationship between language and human. Speech act theory, on the other hand, is a theory based on the logic of simultaneous realization of an act with both action and speech, and developed by Searle, the foundations of which were laid by Austin. Speech acts identified in the narrative were examined under five headings based on Searl's classification of speech acts (assertives, directives, expressives, commissives and declarations).