The Analysis of Statements in Political Meetings Through Cultural Codes Including Patterns of Turkish-Islamic Notion

The statements in political arena have been evaluated as one of the eloquences that were categorized by aristotle as judicial, ceremonial and political rhetoric. as a deduction from the first model of communication; as the “word” is the message and the teller and listener are the parties, the word should be constructed in a way of special fiction. the message, transferred by source, is formed by his/her own experiences, cultural values and body language. in the course of communication, while the larding addresses the characteristics of target audience, i.e. the listener or receiver, it also includes the characteristics of the source, i.e. transmitter. the saying of mevlana, “whatever you say, what you say is as much understand as what the other understands”, shows the importance of the perception of receiver on understanding the message. the cultural values of transmitter and receiver, in other words, material and moral values like language, life style, religion, ethnicity, arts, ethics, tradition supports the statements through written and verbal means. in this context, within this study, examples of political statements in turkey and the davos economic forum (event), between 2008 to 2012, which include cultural values, will be analyzed through “constructivist” tradition, using a selective methodology, and by examining from surface structure to underlying structure in syntactic, pragmatic, semantic and thematic planes.