The Karagöz Of Context In Social Irony

The irony, being shaped in result of criticizing ef fort while being smiled is a method in respect of emphasizing the pr oblems of the individual and society’s life. One of our cultural riches’ por ters, Karagöz is shaped on irony expresion, existing with opposion, and diffe rence of words or states. Irony in Karagöz is based on the contradictory betw e n ‘being’ and ‘must be’ and the division between ‘is emphasized’ and ‘wante d to be emphasized’. In offensive ordinary ‘small people’s pratical life pr oblems and their existence struggles in their external life’s reality. The pro blemical approach is made with method of question-answer dialectic like the a sked questions, the gived answers and the new questions directed to answers. Critize way in * Dr. Fırat Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Ara ştırma Görevlisi ELAZIĞ e-mail: ueliuz@firat.edu.tr / ulku.eliuz@mynet.com ** Bu makale, Somut Olmayan Kültürel Miras: Ya şayan Karagöz Sempozyumu (27-28 Nisan 2006, Ankara)’nda bildiri olarak sunulmu şt r.