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A Comparative Analysis of Romeyka and Turkish Personal Experience Narratives

This senior thesis is a comparative study on personal experience narratives in Turkish and Romeyka (or Pontic Greek), an endangered Greek dialect spoken in northern Turkey. This study compares and contrasts Turkish and Romeyka narratives produced by Turkish-Romeyka bilingual speakers in aspects of Turkish influence, Labovian framework, and similarity with Modern Greek narrative with a touch on speakers' own perception of their identity in Turkey as Romeyka speakers. Narrative is considered a very important element for our mental and social life (Cortazzi 1994). One of the most groundbreaking studies about narrative was done by Labov and Waletzky (1966), who proposed a structural model for personal experience narratives. More specifically, they proposed that personal experience narratives could be segmented and categorized into parts according to their function in the narrative. They emphasized the temporal juncture in what differentiates narrative from other kinds of discourse. Other approaches to narratives were on their linguistic characteristics and what they tell us about the narrative or their social action. A third approach is about the unconscious organization of oral narrative. In the Standard Modern Greek context, specifically, Georgakopoulou (1997) studied forty Standard Modern Greek oral narratives and claimed that there was a visible pattern of number three in the narrations. These kinds of patterns are attributed to "shared cultural modes of thinking", and as Johnstone (1990: 99) argues and Georgakopoulou agrees that number ‘three’ is a key number in European and American cultural norms.