An Evaluation of the Turkish Language Reform After 60 Years.

Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran

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Publication Date: 1995

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An Evaluation of the Turkish Language Reform After 60 Years.

Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran

Language Problems and Language Planning, v19 n3 p221-49 Fall 1995

Evaluates the Turkish language reform in a language planning framework, showing the sociocultural, political, and linguistic reasons leading to this movement and describing the processes and the outcome of this undertaking, which changed the Turkish language and shaped its subsequent development. Special emphasis is given to the process of corpus cultivation. (46 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Change Agents, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Language Planning, Linguistic Borrowing, Newspapers, Political Attitudes, Social Change, Uncommonly Taught Languages

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Turkey

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