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Publication details [#48816]

Erdaği Doğuer, Binnur. 2008. Purification of medical terms in Turkish: A study on the significance of mother tongue for language and thought. Semiotica 2008 (172) : 25–31.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper argues for the importance of employing mother tongue as the language of science. It provides some examples of the purification of medical terminology in Turkish. As the purified terms have not (yet) substituted the original ones, Turkish cannot be currently employed by the Turkish people as a language of science.