Atatürk's long shadow: standard Turkish speakers as younger, more successful, and more attractive than their Kurdish-accented regional counterparts

Schluter, Anne Ambler

doi:10.1080/01434632.2020.1822851

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“…In that case, children might undergo psychological pressure outside the home domain due to the stigmatization of the Kurdish language in the city. This negative attitude towards Kurdish and Kurdish accented Persian was similarly found in Demirci and Kleiner's (1998) and Schluter's (2021) study in the context of Turkey where the Kurds have a minority presence as opposed to the dominant Turkish speaking natives. However, several parents had reverse views.…”

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Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran

2022

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Minority language studies have received increasing attention over the last decade in Iran. Drawing on Spolsky’s (Spolsky, Bernard. 2004. Language policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) language policy theoretical framework, this inquiry reports on the language ideologies, practices, and management efforts of an under-explored group of Kurdish families residing in the city of Kermanshah. To this end, semi-structured interviews and ethnographic fieldwork guided the collection of data from 40 Kurdish–Persian bilingual parents. The thematic analysis of data revealed glaring inconsistencies among the three elements of family language policy (FLP). That is parents’ strong attachment to Kurdish did not necessarily translate into their language practices and efforts. The results also suggest that the studied parents adopted a subtractive approach to their children’s proficiency in Kurdish. We argue that parents are not the core force in heritage language maintenance and there are other external factors determining the transmission of the home language.

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Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran

2022

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Attitudes to regional and standard accents in commercial and non-commercial contexts

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Meurs

2022

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Investment and the inaudible mother tongue: Carving out a space for Kurdish in the soundscape of an Istanbul kebab restaurant

Schluter

2023

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Firmly grounded in local sociopolitical constraints, language policies at Istanbul's Kurdish-run eating establishments often place Kurdish employees’ cultural identity construction at odds with their workplaces’ economic viability. In the face of rigid structures that cement the dominance of Turkish, the Kurdish managers highlighted in a previous study exercise limited agency to enact language policies that align with their pro-Kurdish ideologies, rendering Kurdish largely invisible. This article revisits these themes by examining a nearby Kurdish-run restaurant with a language policy that violates this norm. Applying Darvin & Norton's (2015) model of investment, analyses of observations and interviews consider identity, ideology, and economic capital vis-à-vis employees’ perceived valuation of Kurdish as a workplace language. Results suggest that capital ownership emboldens the audible articulation of Kurdish identities, which emerge from pluricentrically oriented ideologies, fostering resistance to local language policy norms. (Investment, language policy, capital, Kurdish, ideology, pluricentricity)

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Atatürk's long shadow: standard Turkish speakers as younger, more successful, and more attractive than their Kurdish-accented regional counterparts

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran

Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran

Attitudes to regional and standard accents in commercial and non-commercial contexts

Investment and the inaudible mother tongue: Carving out a space for Kurdish in the soundscape of an Istanbul kebab restaurant

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