The Turkish Language Reform

出版者:Oxford University Press, USA

作者:Geoffrey Lewis

页数:208

出版时间:2002-9-26

价格:USD 45.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780199256693

具体描述

This is the first full account of the transformation of Ottoman Turkish into Modern Turkish. It is based on the author's knowledge and experience of the language, history, and people of Turkey. The transformation of the Turkish language is probably the most thorough-going piece of linguistic engineering in history. Its prelude came in 1928, when the Arabo-Persian alphabet was outlawed and replaced by the Latin alphabet. It began in earnest in 1930 when Ataturk declared: 'Turkish is one of the richest of languages. It needs only to be used with discrimination. The Turkish nation, which is well able to protect its territory and its sublime independence, must also liberate its language from the yoke of foreign languages.' All Arabic and Persian vocabulary was replaced forthwith by words collected from popular speech, resurrected from ancient texts, or coined from native roots and suffixes. The snag - identified by the author as one element in the catastrophic aspect of the reform - was that when these sources failed to provide the needed words, the reformers simply invented them. The reform was central to the young republic's aspiration to be western and secular, but it did not please those who remained wedded to their mother tongue or to the Islamic past. The controversy is by no means over, but Ottoman Turkish is dead. Geoffrey Lewis both acquaints the general reader with the often bizarre, sometimes tragi-comic, but never dull story of the reform, and provides a stimulating and incisive account for students of Turkish language, history, and culture. The author draws on his own wide experience of Turkey and his personal knowledge of many of the leading actors. He has left no word, phrase, or sentence of Turkish untranslated, other than the names of books and articles.

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【2013.02.01-21】很有料很有趣的一本書，讓人感慨歷史上爲什麼民科總有最強大的生命力。。。涉及人物事件較多，囫圇下來有些招架不住。當然流水一般只看吐槽段子倒無所謂，只是脈絡有些混亂。寫作語言本身就很值得我效顰。

【2013.02.01-21】很有料很有趣的一本書，讓人感慨歷史上爲什麼民科總有最強大的生命力。。。涉及人物事件較多，囫圇下來有些招架不住。當然流水一般只看吐槽段子倒無所謂，只是脈絡有些混亂。寫作語言本身就很值得我效顰。