DİL İLİŞKİLERİNDE KULLANIM TEMELLİ YAKLAŞIM.

Linguistic patterns show variation in different contexts of use. One of the important reasons for language variation is language contacts. Linguistic variation emerges as a result of language users' contact with other language users in different times and environments. Offering a relatively new theoretical perspective, this approach offers new opportunities to explain phenomena such as language acquisition and language change. This approach, which became visible in linguistics towards the end of the 20th century, assumes, as its name suggests, a close relationship between linguistic structures and use. It looks more to evidence from usage to understand the cognitive organization of language. Although usage has been treated from a cognitive perspective in some studies, in recent studies, the ontological status of the language system is not seen as exclusively cognitive in character, and usage is treated from both cognition- and communication-centered aspects. In this study, after introducing the basic concepts of the approach, the studies conducted from this perspective are evaluated and the contributions of the usage-based approach to the study of Turkish language relations are emphasized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]