LINGUISTIC SECURITY AND LANGUAGE POLICY NOTIONS IN TURKEY IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERNIZATION PROCESS
Journal Title: Вісник Одеського національного університету. Соціологія і політичні науки - Year 2016, Vol 21, Issue 4
Abstract
The article is devoted to learning and analyzing such definitions as «linguistic security», «language policy», «state modernization» in the case of the Turkish Republic. The article reveals the notion of the named definitions and gives the examples on implementation of some aspects of linguistic security and language policy in Turkish society as an aspect of its modernization process and state-building policy. The subject of research also is language policy strategies and reforming of the Turkish language in the twentieth century. Speaking about language policy strategies, the author proposes some different definitions of them: protectionist, pragmatic and nationalistic. In this context, the process of providing of linguistic security of Turkish language as a international language in the geopolitical aspect spell out in detail its status as Eurasian country and statebuilding policy. In first case Turkey always tried to function as a bridge between East and West, and to support intercultural dialogue with Turkish speaking countries. Speaking about state-building policy of Turkish Republic in the past and now Turkish government used to implement nationalistic and protectionist functions of language policy strategy. The idea of «one language, one state, one people» was the fundamental basis of state-building policy and modernization process in Turkey from the end of 1920th. The most crucial parts of them are changing ottoman alphabet to Latin one, language reform o replacement of old Arabic-Persian words to new created Turkish ones and so on. After the ending of the Cold War, language police becomes the pat of foreign policy conceptions such as Pan-Turkism, Neo-ttomanism and so on. It helps to create a platform for developing of cultural, economic relations between Turkey and post-soviet republics. The pragmatic function of its linguistic security strategy is implementing here. Nowadays, we can see deepens of language policy and linguistic security of Turkey were it combines both nationalistic and pragmatic vectors.
Authors and Affiliations
Y. M. Tarasiuk
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP256037
- DOI 10.18524/2304-1439.2016.4(27).119058
- Views 81
- Downloads 0
IMAGE OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN MEDIA DISCOURSE: CRITICAL DISCOURSE-ANALYSIS OF MEDIA MESSAGES
The article analyzes mass-media reports on internally displaced persons (IDP). The author demonstrates significance of this topic for contemporary Ukraine. A system proposed by M. Jorgensen and L. Phillips for classifyin...
FACTOR OF THE CONCEPT «EUROPE OF REGIONS» IN THE PROCESSES OF DECENTRALIZATION IN UKRAINE
The article considers the process of development of the decentralization reform in Ukraine, started in 2014. The aim of the article is to analyze the conformity of the reform process with the strategic goals declared be...
FEATURES OF THE CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE «UKRAINE — THE EASTERN EUROPEAN STATES»: NEW CHALLENGES AND REALITIES
The cross-cultural relations of Ukraine with the Eastern European states were analyzed in the article. The author touched upon the issues of civilization identification of the participants of a dialogue. Attention to the...
PARADOXICAL ASPECT OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
The article substantiates, that the variety of linguistic meanings and points that a person uses in the process of communication, gives the opportunity to «reconcile» the contradictory manifold of his motivations, includ...
CHANGING TURKEY: POLITICAL PARADIGM
The article is devoted to the changes in the political paradigm of Republic of Turkey. In the article the author adheres to analysis of the results of elections held during 2002-2015 period, demonstrates electorate’s vie...