Söylem Filoloji Dergisi

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Many genres related to laughter have been evaluated under the title of "humor" for many years. İn this respect, humor represents a general approach that includes discourse types such as irony and satire, whose boundaries have been tried to be determined by recent theoretical studies. However, although many of the discourses containing criticism, ridicule and insult are related to humor, it is a narrative choice focused on making you laugh and entertain. The reason why humor is often associated with irony and satire is that these genres make a lot of use of it, in other words, the element of laughter. Laughter, which is a human characteristic, appears in various forms. The most preferred of these, both in daily life and in the literary field, is the laughter that occurs when the logical flow of the expression is disrupted, the expression is created astonishment or the expression ends in an unexpected way. This kind of laughter observed in the formation of humor is called the “incompatibility theory”. Turkish literature has a rich history of humor, as it can be mentioned that there is humor in the literary accumulation of every nation for a long time. One of the poets who benefited most from humorous discourse in the Republican phase of Turkish literature is Orhan Veli Kanık, the leader of the Garip movement. It is seen that the poet, who can find almost every kind of humorous discourse in his poems, mostly exemplifies the humor (the theory of incompatibility) originating from incompatibility.