Publications

Publication details [#39485]

Dogançay-Aktuna, Seran. 2004. Language planning in Turkey: yesterday and today. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 165 : 5–32.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical linguistics | language planning

Language as a subject

Turkish

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper focuses on past and present Turkish language planning efforts, in order to familiarize the reader with the most important Turkish Language Reform (1928–1980), and to discuss current language problems and language planning attempts on Turkish.