Çukurova Üniversitesi Türkoloji Araştırmaları Dergisi

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This study is on the products of vehicle literature, which is one of the literary productions that emerged as a result of today’s changing living conditions and as an alternative to classical literary forms. In the study, vehicle literature products have been evaluated structurally in the context of constructors such as syntax and vocabulary as the primary purpose. However, in the study, observations on sociolinguistic issues such as the socio-economic level of language users, the place of male or female language users in this production, the social conditions that cause the production of vehicle literature, which is considered as a new and alternative way of expression in folk literature, were also shared. These are wise, short, impressive, humorous, reproachful and sometimes fatalistic texts. Since they are usually written on the back parts of motorized road transport vehicles, they are more commonly known as vehicle back writings, car back writings or truck back writings, proverbs of truck drivers etc.. The language used is generally a masculine language and this masculine speaker, who generally has problems with the world and life, addresses either a lover he cannot reach directly or has problems with, or all members of the outside world with whom he cannot reconcile. Prototypes of these vehicle literature products should be the writings of long-haul truck drivers on the back of their trucks. However, when the data is examined, it has been seen that the products of vehicle literature are now used in all kinds of transport vehicles and even in passenger vehicles with close frequency. Whether such productions are limited to Turkey or not should be determined by wider research, and the theory of vehicle literature as a new formation in folk literature should be put forward by looking at the linguistic and literary aspects of the products.