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- Title
ÇİÇEK DİLİ (LİSÂN-I EZHÂR) ve OSMANLI ZENPÂRELERİ.
- Authors
Ambros, Edith Gülçin; Şenödeyıcı, Özer
- Abstract
The "Language of Flowers" is a type of coded communication used in the Ottoman Empire. In this type of communication a number of small portable items correspond to signifieds, but the signifiers are not used in their familiar symbolic sense. In the article, some particulars of the "language of flowers" are defined, and at the same time, a comparison between the Cockney rhyming slang and the Ottoman "language of flowers" is made. At the end of the article there is a sample text thought to belong to the Istanbul zenpâres of former times.
- Subjects
TURKEY; OTTOMAN Empire; RHYMING slang; SYMBOLISM of plants; SIGNS &; symbols; SYMBOLISM of flowers; FLOWER language; COLLOQUIAL language; TURKISH literature
- Publication
Electronic Turkish Studies, 2007, Vol 2, Issue 4, p106
- ISSN
1308-2140
- Publication type
Article