Korkut Ata Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi

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Positive types are the types who are next to the hero in the epic tradition and help the hero or positive types. In this article, ten volumes of Kazakh Epics published among the publications of the Turkish Language Institution within the scope of the Project of Determining the Epics of the Turkic World and Translating and Spreading them to Turkey Turkish were examined in order to provide a suggestion for the identification of positive types that contributed significantly to the epic and to determine their functions by making a consistent naming. This review was made using the structuralist perspective method. With this method, primarily recurring characteristic actions were determined, and then positive types were determined by considering the contribution of the relevant actions to the hero. The structural and contextual functions of the determined positive types were also interpreted by using text-centered and context-centered folklore theories. As a result of this interpretation, it has been seen that the structural functions of positive types are to increase the material-spiritual power and success of the hero, and to expand the plot. It has been determined that the contextual functions are individual and social education and transfer of cultural heritage, providing relief, providing political and social support.