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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

Keywords

language and thought | language use | medical language

Language as a subject

Turkish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

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.