La révolution au pied de la lettre. L’invention de « l’alphabet turc »

Caymaz, Birol; Szurek, Emmanuel

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“…Selon Mehmed Nuri, ce terme d'origine arabe fragilise l'image des vétérinaires au sein de la société et, puisque la Turquie républicaine, sous l'impulsion de Mustafa Kemal, se tourne vers l'Occident, il serait bon d'adopter le terme veterîner, qui est d'usage dans tous les pays « civilisés » d'Europe et aux États-Unis 86 .Il faut donner quelques éléments contextuels pour comprendre pourquoi le combat contre le mot baytar commence vers la fin des années 1920 et le début des années 1930. En 1928, un nouvel alphabet phonétique turc est mis en place : le remplacement des caractères arabo-persans -jugés inadaptés au turc, trop complexes et trop orientauxpar des caractères latins devant permettre d'éradiquer l'analphabétisme, séculariser le pays et l'élever au rang des nations « modernes »(Caymaz, Szurek 2007). Cette révolution de l'alphabet est plus tard accompagnée d'une purge lexicale.…”

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Un métier qui ne fait pas rêver ?

Tanık¹

2021

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Un métier qui ne fait pas rêver ?Le discours des vétérinaires dans l'Empire ottoman tardif et la jeune République turque Meriç Tanık-Si seulement je pouvais pratiquer la médecine vétérinaire… -Fais le si c'est encore possible.-Je ne peux plus. -Peut-être que tu peux toujours… -Hélas, j'ai tout oublié Köse. -Si seulement les savoirs étaient restés gravés dans ta tête, ils sont si précieux ; -Veux-tu bien m'écouter fiston ? Si possible, travailles bien et instruis-toi : Car c'est ainsi que tu verras, Qu'il nous faut plus de médecins d'animaux que de médecins d'hommes 1 . Passage tiré d'un recueil de poésie de Mehmet Akif Ersoy (1873-1936 2 Dans mes recherches, j'ai observé certaines thématiques saillantes alors que leur discours est assez consensuel : manque d'effectifs, faibles revenus, mauvaises conditions de travail mais aussi déficit de reconnaissance, tant au niveau socialUn métier qui ne fait pas rêver ?

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Tanık¹

2021

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Hefty Dictionaries in Incomprehensible Tongues: Commensurating Code and Language Community in Turkey

Jamison¹

2016

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In this article, I consider one aspect of the larger linguistic–political project of rendering Kurdish an “equivalent” language in a world of standard languages: the material contours of text artifacts, and their commensurating capacities. In Turkey, where Turkish has long been the sole officially sanctioned code of public life, the project of asserting equivalence takes place in no small part as a function of an increasingly textualized and widely circulating Kurdish. Inserting Kurdish, both spoken and printed, into ever more arenas—disrupting the expectations of which code goes with which context—has become a central plank in a Kurdish political project. Yet relatively few people actually read the texts in question. The circulation of largely unread Kurdish texts allows us to investigate how material qualities of text objects—shape, sheen, heft, etc.—contribute to the assertion of particular forms of linguistic commensurability. I examine how textual forms anchor affiliations of loyalty and allegiance to language community, even without necessarily transforming speech practices and norms of pragmatic usage. In the Kurdish project of commensurating codes, the circulation of textual artifacts—stacked newspapers, glossy street signs, hefty dictionaries, paperback novels—works to signal the presence of the genres they are presumed to contain. At least three commensurating processes are at play here: between spoken Kurdish and its textual equivalent; between “Kurdish” and “Turkish” as the orienting codes of their respective language communities; and between “Kurds” and “Turks” as members of those communities, participants in a fiercely contested struggle over sovereignty and resources. At stake in these assertions of linguistic equivalence—the normative purchase of a would-be newly commensurate Kurdish—are politically and socially consequential mappings of groupness, polity, and political legitimacy.

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The development of the apostrophe with proper names in Turkish

Reina

Akar

2021

Zeitschrift Für Sprachwissenschaft

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In modern Turkish, the apostrophe is used to separate proper names from inflectional endings (İzmir’de ‘in İzmir’). This is not the case with inflected common nouns (şehirde ‘in the city’). In this respect, the apostrophe constitutes an instance of graphematic dissociation between proper names and common nouns. Interestingly, the apostrophe was originally employed to transliterate hamza and ayn in Arabic and Persian loanwords (san’at ‘art’). However, these loanwords gradually lost the apostrophe (sanat ‘art’). This implies that Turkish experienced a graphematic change whereby the apostrophe developed from a phonographic marker of glottal stop into a morphographic marker of morpheme boundaries in proper names. This refunctionalization process is illustrated by a diachronic corpus analysis based on selected issues of the newspaper Cumhuriyet from 1929–1975. The findings reveal that the use of the apostrophe with proper names was triggered by foreignness. More specifically, the apostrophe first occurred with foreign names to highlight morpheme boundaries (Eden’in ‘of Eden’) and then expanded to native names via animacy (Doğan’ın ‘of Doğan’).

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La révolution au pied de la lettre. L’invention de « l’alphabet turc »

Abstract: La révolution au pied de la lettre. L'invention de « l'alphabet turc »The revolution at face value. The invention of the "Turkish alphabet"

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Un métier qui ne fait pas rêver ?

Un métier qui ne fait pas rêver ?

Hefty Dictionaries in Incomprehensible Tongues: Commensurating Code and Language Community in Turkey

The development of the apostrophe with proper names in Turkish

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