Poetic Functions of Punctuation Standards

Abstract

This article highlights the poetic possibilities of punctuation. In particular, one can find many examples of punctuational norms, punctuational features, and punctuational unconventionality that serve the linguopoetic process. Like all language units, punctuation standards have changed. The occurrence of these cases is the introduction into the textbooks of the words used in works of art as a result of the individual use of punctuation by the artist for poetic purposes. It is also noted that the punctuation used between the conjunctions is given in different forms in the current and previous textbooks as a result of the author’s punctuation and the synonyms between the punctuation marks. As a solution to these phenomena, it is emphasized that punctuation, which is subject to strict rules, and punctuation, which are used in terms of the author’s style, should be used differently.