serpil ersöz2025-04-142025-04-142014http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14701/53810Up to now, studies were carried out on the curses generally in the public science and many classifications were made according to their meaning, subject and manner. However; no study on the functions of curses in the spoken language was carried out. In this article, it was revealed with a classification test that we made on this subject that the curses are used in the spoken language with many functions except bad-pray. In this classification, main groups were determined by basing on target person towards whom bad wish in the curses is tended, and sub-groups were formed within the main groups via linguistic and non-linguistic context. Accordingly, it was determined that the curses are used in the spoken language in these functions: curse, oath, regret and swear.DiğerFolklor