COHESION ELEMENTS OBSERVED IN HASAN ALİ TOPTAŞ’s NOVEL “BENİ KÖR KUYULARDA”

Text linguistics is one of the important branches of linguistics. Text linguistics, which focuses on the criteria that makes the text a text, examines the relations of the sentences in the text with each other. Small structure based on inter-sentence relations; a large structure which ensures the integrity of the text based on the sentences; depending on all these structures, the superstructure is reached by examining the principles of cohesion and consistency. Thanks to these structures, text linguistics offers clues to writers and readers through various analysis methods in the process of perceiving and interpreting texts. Although Hasan Ali Toptaş is an important name for Turkish Literature, he has the issues that he is uncomfortable with and the messages he wants to convey to the readers. The messages he wants to convey are hidden in the depths of the text under the surface structure. In this study, this aspect of "Beni Kör Kuyularda" novel will be examined in terms of text linguistics, and besides the visible and understood part of the text, its deep structure, the elements hidden in the text and the linguistic coherence of the text will be focused on and how all these issues are realized in Hasan Ali Toptaş's novel Beni Kör Kuyularda. Keywords: Text linguistics, Textuality criteria, Cohesion, Beni Kör Kuyularda, Hasan Ali Toptaş.