EAN: 9783447114943

FROM MULTILINGUALISM TO MONOLINGUALISM - NEVRA ...

Issues of language cannot be compressed into a short period of time. Rather  they should be
examined in a continuous process  relating them to the social  cultural  and political context
in which language operates. Following this premise  Nevra Lischewski challenges the general
tendency to regard the replacement of the Arabic Alphabet with the Latin Alphabet in 1928 as a
watershed for linguistic practices around Turkish language. Introducing the term 'Language
Planning'  she departs from the terminology of 'The Turkish Language Reform'  under which the
script change and other linguistic transformations are frequently subsumed. Lischewski develops
a conceptual framework of language planning  allowing a detailed  long-term analysis of the
linguistic situation  policies  and practices of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey.
Language planning is never attempted for its own sake but to transform the linguistic situation
- in many cases from multilingualism to monolingualism. To understand this process in regards
to the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey  this book presents a sociolinguistic profile
of the Ottoman Empire. An innovative  functionalist  interdisciplinary approach to language
planning enables Lischewski to expose heretofore omitted aspects of the planning efforts during
the time of the Republic and its crucial consequences for linguistic diversity.

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