The Turkish Language Reform A Catastrophic Success

Author : Geoffrey Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199256691

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This is the first full account of the transformation of Ottoman Turkish into Modern Turkish. It is based on the author's knowledge and experience of the language, history, and people of Turkey. The transformation of the Turkish language is probably the most thorough-going piece of linguistic engineering in history. Its prelude came in 1928, when the Arabo-Persian alphabet was outlawed and replaced by the Latin alphabet. It began in earnest in 1930 when Ataturk declared: 'Turkish is oneof the richest of languages. It needs only to be used with discrimination. The Turkish nation, which is well able to protect its territory and its sublime independence, must also liberate its language from the yoke of foreign languages.' All Arabic and Persian vocabulary was replaced forthwith by words collected from popular speech, resurrected from ancient texts, or coined from native roots and suffixes. The snag - identified by the author as one element in the catastrophic aspect of the reform - was that when these sources failed to provide the needed words, the reformers simply invented them. The reform was central to the young republic's aspiration to be western and secular, but it did not please those who remained wedded to their mother tongue or to the Islamic past. The controversy is by no means over, but Ottoman Turkish is dead. Geoffrey Lewis both acquaints the general reader with the often bizarre, sometimes tragi-comic, but never dull story of the reform, and provides a stimulating and incisive account for students of Turkish language, history, and culture. The author draws on his own wide experience of Turkey and his personal knowledge of many of the leading actors. He has left no word, phrase, or sentence of Turkish untranslated, other than the names of books and articles.

Author : Geoffrey L. Lewis,Geoffrey Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X004412061

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Quotation has been; left untranslated.; This book is important for the light it throws on twentieth-century Turkish politics and society, as much as it is for the study of linguistic change. It is not only scholarly and accessible; it is also an extremely good read.

Author : Geoffrey Lewis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191583223

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The Turkish Language Reform : A Catastrophic Success by Geoffrey Lewis Pdf

This is the first full account of the transformation of Ottoman Turkish into modern Turkish. It is based on the author's knowledge, experience and continuing study of the language, history, and people of Turkey. That transformation of the Turkish language is probably the most thorough-going piece of linguistics engineering in history. Its prelude came in 1928, when the Arabo-Persian alphabet was outlawed and replaced by the Latin alphabet. It began in earnest in 1930 when Ataturk declared: Turkish is one of the richest of languages. It needs only to be used with discrimination. The Turkish nation, which is well able to protect its territory and its sublime independence, must also liberate its language from the yoke of foreign languages. A government-sponsored campaign was waged to replace words of Arabic or Persian origin by words collected from popular speech, or resurrected from ancient texts, or coined from native roots and suffixes. The snag - identified by the author as one element in the catastrophic aspect of the reform - was that when these sources failed to provide the needed words, the reformers simply invented them. The reform was central to the young republic's aspiration to be western and secular, but it did not please those who remained wedded to their mother tongue or to the Islamic past. The controversy is by no means over, but Ottoman Turkish is dead. Professor Lewis both acquaints the general reader with the often bizarre, sometimes tragicomic but never dull story of the reform, and provides a lively and incisive account for students of Turkish and the relations between culture, politics and language with some stimulating reading. The author draws on his own wide experience of Turkey and his personal knowledge of many of the leading actors. The general reader will not be at a disadvantage, because no Turkish word or quotation has been left untranslated. This book is important for the light it throws on twentieth-century Turkish politics and society, as much as it is for the study of linguistic change. It is not only scholarly and accessible; it is also an extremely good read.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:952180108

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:861057591

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Turkish Language Reform by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lars Johanson,Éva Á. Csató
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136825347

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The Turkic Languages by Lars Johanson,Éva Á. Csató Pdf

The Turkic Languages examines the modern languages within this wide-ranging language family and gives an historical overview of their development.The first part covers generalities, providing an introduction to the grammatical traditions, subgrouping and writing systems of this language family. The latter part of the book focuses on descriptions of the individual languages themselves. Each language description gives an overview of the language followed by detail on phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis and dialects. The language chapters are similarly structured to enable the reader to access and compare information easily. Each chapter represents a self-contained article written by a recognised expert in the field. Suggestions are made for the most useful sources of further reading and the work is comprehensively indexed.

Author : Şehnaz Tahir Gürçaglar,Saliha Paker,John Milton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268471

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Tradition,Tension and Translation in Turkey by Şehnaz Tahir Gürçaglar,Saliha Paker,John Milton Pdf

The articles in this volume examine historical, cultural, literary and political facets of translation in Turkey, a society in tortuous transformation since the 19th century from empire to nation-state. Some draw attention to tradition in Ottoman practices and agents of translation and interpreting, while others explore the republican period, starting in 1923, with the revolutionary change in script from Arabic to Roman coming in 1928, making a powerful impact on publication and translation practices. Areas covered include the German Jewish academic involvement in translation, traditional and current practices of translating from Kurdish into Turkish, censorship of translated literature, intralingual translations from Ottoman into modern Turkish, pseudotranslation, ideological manipulation and resistance in translation, imitativeness vs. originality and metonymics of literary reviewing.

Author : Ruth Bartholoma,Jens Peter Laut
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 344711696X

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The Turkish Language Reform and Beyond by Ruth Bartholoma,Jens Peter Laut Pdf

Debates on language policy and planning in the Republic of Turkey are the focus of this volume, which is the outcome of a conference held at the University of Freiburg in April 2019. The eight chapters deal with various aspects related to both the official language Turkish and the other languages used in Turkey, whether autochthonous minority languages or languages that have recently become important through migration. For their analyses, the authors, coming from different disciplinary backgrounds like Turkology, political science or history, use methods like discourse analysis, mixed-method approaches or concepts from the field of linguistic landscapes research.0Topics include re-evaluations of the Turkish Language Reform of the 1920s and 1930s, analyses of debates concerning the Turkish language in connection with questions of gender, loanwords and use in political speeches, the language on public and private signs, demands raised in connection with the so-called Democratic Opening? initiated in 2009 or the migration of refugees from Syria since 2011. Attention to current developments also provides new perspectives on the early phase of language policy in Turkey and the question whether such developments can be seen as continuities or discontinuities. In any case, this book makes an engaging contribution to what seems to be a never-ending story?.

Author : V H Hagopian
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013678516

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Key to the Ottoman-Turkish Conversation-grammar by V H Hagopian Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : G. Zuckermann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781403938695

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Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew by G. Zuckermann Pdf

Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the last century. It has responded to the new social and technological demands of globalization with a vigorously developing multisourced lexicon, enriched by foreign language contact. In this detailed and rigorous study, the author provides a principled classification of neologisms, their semantic fields and the roles of source languages, along with a sociolinguistic study of the attitudes of 'purists' and ordinary native speakers in the tension between linguistic creativity and the preservation of a distinct language identity.

Author : Tomasz Kamusella
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351062688

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Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War by Tomasz Kamusella Pdf

In mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims across the Iron Curtain to neighboring Turkey. It was the single largest ethnic cleansing during the Cold War in Europe after the wrapping up of the postwar expulsions (‘population transfers’) of ethnic Germans from Central Europe in the latter half of the 1940s. Furthermore, this expulsion of Turks and Muslims from Bulgaria was the sole unilateral act of ethnic cleansing that breached the Iron Curtain. The 1989 ethnic cleansing was followed by an unprecedented return of almost half of the expellees, after the collapse of the Bulgarian communist regime. The return, which partially reversed the effects of this ethnic cleansing, was the first-ever of its kind in history. Despite the unprecedented character of this 1989 expulsion and the subsequent return, not a single research article, let alone a monograph, has been devoted to these momentous developments yet. However, the tragic events shape today’s Bulgaria, while the persisting attempts to suppress the remembrance of the 1989 expulsion continue sharply dividing the country’s inhabitants. Without remembering about this ethnic cleansing it is impossible to explain the fall of the communist system in Bulgaria and the origins of ethnic cleansing during the Yugoslav wars. Faltering Yugoslavia’s future ethnic cleansers took a good note that neither Moscow nor Washington intervened in neighboring Bulgaria to stop the 1989 expulsion, which in light of international law was then still the legal instrument of ‘population transfer.’ The as yet unhealed wound of the 1989 ethnic cleansing negatively affects the Bulgaria’s relations with Turkey and the European Union. It seems that the only way out of this debilitating conundrum is establishing a truth and reconciliation commission that at long last would ensure transitional justice for all Bulgarians irrespective of language, religion or ethnicity.

Author : Ilia Xypolia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315410838

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British Imperialism and Turkish Nationalism in Cyprus, 1923-1939 by Ilia Xypolia Pdf

As Cyprus experienced British imperial rule between 1878 and 1960, Greek and Turkish nationalism on the island developed at different times and at different speeds. Relations between Turkish Cypriots and the British on the one hand, and Greek Cypriots and the British on the other, were often asymmetrical with the Muslim community undergoing an enormous change in terms of national/ethnic identity and class characteristics. Turkish Cypriot nationalism developed belatedly as a militant nationalist and anti-Enosis movement. This book explores the relationship between the emergence of Turkish national identity and British colonial rule in the 1920s and 1930s.

Author : Gelett Burgess
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : EAN:8596547246985

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Burgess Unabridged: A new dictionary of words you have always needed by Gelett Burgess Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Burgess Unabridged: A new dictionary of words you have always needed" by Gelett Burgess. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004427419

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Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century by Anonim Pdf

Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century offers multi-angled critical attention to recent retranslations of Joyce’s works into Italian, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Turkish, German, South Slavic and many other languages, and reflects the newest scholarly developments in Joyce and translation studies.

Author : Ji Fengyuan
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780824844684

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Linguistic Engineering by Ji Fengyuan Pdf

When Mao and the Chinese Communist Party won power in 1949, they were determined to create new, revolutionary human beings. Their most precise instrument of ideological transformation was a massive program of linguistic engineering. They taught everyone a new political vocabulary, gave old words new meanings, converted traditional terms to revolutionary purposes, suppressed words that expressed "incorrect" thought, and required the whole population to recite slogans, stock phrases, and scripts that gave "correct" linguistic form to "correct" thought. They assumed that constant repetition would cause the revolutionary formulae to penetrate people's minds, engendering revolutionary beliefs and values. In an introductory chapter, Dr. Ji assesses the potential of linguistic engineering by examining research on the relationship between language and thought. In subsequent chapters, she traces the origins of linguistic engineering in China, describes its development during the early years of communist rule, then explores in detail the unprecedented manipulation of language during the Cultural Revolution of 1966–1976. Along the way, she analyzes the forms of linguistic engineering associated with land reform, class struggle, personal relationships, the Great Leap Forward, Mao-worship, Red Guard activism, revolutionary violence, Public Criticism Meetings, the model revolutionary operas, and foreign language teaching. She also reinterprets Mao’s strategy during the early stages of the Cultural Revolution, showing how he manipulated exegetical principles and contexts of judgment to "frame" his alleged opponents. The work concludes with an assessment of the successes and failures of linguistic engineering and an account of how the Chinese Communist Party relaxed its control of language after Mao's death.