摘要：Idioms and reduplications which have a significant place in the elements of
vocabulary represent the characteristics of the society they come to light.
Therefore, the words carried by these stereotyped phrases from past to the present,
come out as the best way of expressing the feelings, senses, and existence of the
society. This study aimed at ascertaining the pre-service Turkish language teachers'
interpretation case of fossil words in Turkish reduplications and idioms. It adopts
the concurrent triangulation design of mixed methods research. "Vocabulary
Knowledge Scale" developed by Wesche and Paribakht (1996) was used in the
research. The five-point rating figure and scoring scheme was taken by Ateş and
Sis (2016). As a result of the study, the effect of giving/not giving example
stereotyped phases on interpreting fossil words was examined, and it was observed
that the participants had higher levels of interpretation of fossil words when they
were given the example stereotyped phrases. Unearthing the fossil words is
significant since it is considered as a building stone which will contribute to the
development of the language having term problems and lacking to find equivalents
of foreign words.
关键词：vocabulary; idioms; reduplications; fossil words; archaic words
