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Dogançay-Aktuna, Seran. 1995. An evaluation of the Turkish language reform after 60 years. Language Problems and Language Planning 19 (3) : 221–249.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | language change | language planning | language use | modernization

Language as a subject

Turkish

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

This paper discusses the linguistic, sociocultural and political reasons that led to the Turkish language reform and provides an evaluation of this reform process and its outcome.