Özet

The aim of this study isto investigate the meaning of the marriage concept for married, non-married,engaged and divorced participants through metaphor analysis. The answers to thefollowing questions were sought in this research; 1. What are the metaphorsabout the meaning of marriage developed by married, non-married, engaged anddivorced individuals? 2. How do the metaphors differ based on gender, educationlevel, and marital status of participants? The study group was determined bythe maximum variation sampling technique. In this study, the sample groupconsisted of 110 participants including 44 men and 66 women. Participants weredivided into groups as 53 married, 50 single, and 5 divorced and 2 engagedindividuals. The data were collected in Turkish through sentence completionexercises: “Marriage is like … because …”. An otherwise blank piece of paperwith this sentence completion exercise at the top of the page was given to allthe participants. The data were analyzed through metaphor analysis. Accordingto the findings, the sample group produced 101 different valid metaphors fromtotal of 110 people. These metaphors were grouped under 11 different conceptualcategories considering their common traits. The results indicated that theparticipants described the meaning of marriage metaphorically as happiness,confidence, realism, productivity, effort-labor-struggle,frustration-deprivation, reciprocity-expectation, togetherness-solidarity,uncertainty-ambiguity, risk and development.

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Marriage | Meaning | Metaphor

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