Discursive analysis

Archaeologists from Istanbul University and the Şanlıurfa Archeology Museum who were investigating a site in southeastern Turkey have come across an intriguing find: a stone carving of a naked man with one hand on his stomach, and the other grasping his crotch.

First of all, The carving was uncovered at the Sayburç site in Şanlıurfa, a part of the Taş Tepeler or “Stone Hills” region. Archaeologists were first alerted to the site earlier this year when experts at the Şanlıurfa Archeology Museum learned that local villagers were using blocks from obelisks for their garden walls.

Upon investigating the site, which dates back to 8,000 B.C., they came across the carving of the man holding his crotch. However, Carved into the ruins of an old building wall, the figure appears on the front of a bench. He’s nude except for a collar or necklace — a common motif in Neolithic figures in the region — and he holds his penis in his right hand, with his left hand placed on his stomach.

Though perhaps the most striking part of the carving, the penis-holding man is not alone. He’s surrounded on both sides by fierce-looking leopards, who face him with their mouths open and their teeth bared. To the west, another naked man appears.

Author of article: By Kaleena Fraga | Checked By John Kuroski.

Types of article and purpose: This article is publisistic article and author wanted to get a information by formal writing way.

Occur place: Bekir Kösker.

Linking words: who, with, when, that, which.

Language features : present simple, past simple, present perfect simple, future simple tenses.

Discourse markers: through, however, first of all.

Prepositions: of, from, for, upon, across, into.

Anaphoric refences: his, this, their.

Cataphohic references : other, archaeologists.

Exophoric references: they.

Substitution: one, they, he.

Forms: noun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition.

Function: subject, predicate, determiner, object, subirdinator, correlator, modifier.

However, Carved into the ruins of an old building wall, the figure appears on the front of a bench.