TEXTLINGUSTIC ANALYSIS OF THE SHORT STORY SAND BY CONOR CORDEROY

III. INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ANGLO-AMERICAN CULTURAL AND LITERARY STUDIES, Ankara, Türkiye, 22 - 23 Aralık 2024, ss.136, (Özet Bildiri)

A text is not a string of sentences or a simple grammatical unity, but rather it is semantic

unity. The unity that it has is the unity of meaning in context, a texture that expresses the fact

that it relates as a whole to the environment in which it emerged. Text linguistics is an applied

analysis method based on a theoretical foundation that attempts to reveal the semantic

structures of literary texts by examining them from the surface structure to the deep structure.

In the text linguistic analysis of a literary text, title, repetitive words that are keywords,

topical sentences, conclusion sentence, inferences from implicit expressions, motifs and

themes are main clues, that is, main surface structure elements, leading to real meaning of the

text. In addition to linguistic context, stylistic features of the writer, non-linguistic context are

elements that help identify layers of meaning. In this study, Sand, which is a short story

written by the British writer Conor Corderoy from an ecocritical perspective, will be

examined in terms of cohesion and coherence, which are basic text linguistic criteria. The

central topics of the short story Sand include climate change, personal and familial struggles,

and societal responses to environmental challenges. The melting of glaciers and global

warming, as well as how these events will affect people in the future, are also discussed in the

story. With this analysis, the messages placed by the author in the deep structure will be

reached and the action he aims for with his text will be determined.

Keywords: Text linguistics, ecocriticism, Sand, Conor Corderoy.