scholarly journals Turkic Borrowings in the Turkish Language Reform: Past and Today

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-180
Author(s):  
Şükrü Halûk AKALIN ◽  
Mustafa Samet KUMANLI
Keyword(s):  
Language Reform ◽  
Turkish Language

The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success (review)

Language ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 896-897
Author(s):  
Mohammed Sawaie
Keyword(s):  
Language Reform ◽  
Turkish Language

Effects of Turkish Language Reform on Person Perception

1980 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doan Cüceloğlu ◽  
Dan I. Slobin
Keyword(s):  
Person Perception ◽  
Language Reform ◽  
Turkish Language

Language and Politics: Turkish Language Reform

1964 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Tachau
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
National Language ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Language Reform ◽  
National Community ◽  
Language And Politics ◽  
Turkish Language ◽  
New Religion

The close relation between language and politics was noted by George Orwell many years ago. Undoubtedly, no other political phenomenon brings this relationship more sharply into focus than that of nationalism.“In our time, the national community has assumed paramount power,” notes Frederick Hertz. Along with this development, “the national language has become one of the idols of a new religion. All nations regard it as a symbol of their independence and honour, as the supreme expression of their personality, and they esteem its exclusive domination within their national territory more highly than obvious spiritual and material advantages.” Indeed, language has been widely (though in some cases erroneously) accepted as one of the prime indicators of national identity.

Geoffrey Lewis, The Turkish language reform, a catastrophic success. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 190. HB $65.00.

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 645-647
Author(s):  
Ismail Aydingün ◽  
Ayşegül Aydingün
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
General Reader ◽  
Language Reform ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Reading Matter ◽  
History Of ◽  
Turkish Language ◽  
Building Project

Geoffrey Lewis's book traces the history of Turkish language reform with fascinating style. The reader is provided with rich and well-selected examples, and the translation from Turkish to English is excellent. The author's experience of Turkey and his competence in Turkish are clear throughout. He states that the book has two purposes: to acquaint the general reader with the history of Turkish language reform, and to provide students at all levels of Turkish with some useful and stimulating reading matter. Lewis is successful on both counts. Furthermore, the book is significant in that it sheds light on the fact that, although language reform is not a well-known aspect of the Kemalist revolution, it played a vital role in the creation of the Turkish national identity. In other words, the aim of Turkish language reform was not simply to “purify” the language by eliminating foreign words and foreign grammatical features; rather, it was part of a nation-building project.

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