The Wounded Tongue: Turkey's Language Reform and the Canonicity of the Novel

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dc.contributor.authorParla, Jale
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:49:09Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:49:09Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractWith little Ottoman and less French, the tragicomic hero of an early Turkish novel, Araba Sevdasi (1896; The Carriage Affair), finds himself at a semantic impasse before a line in a French poem that reads, [K]elime seyi resmetmeye borclu ise ([I]f the word could represent the thing). Frustrated, he throws the poem away, grumbling, [T]ous les poetes sont fous ([A]ll poets are fools). This defiant gesture marks the beginning of the linguistic issue the Turkish novelists confronted during the first century of the Turkish novel (1870-1970). The reformist objective of these novelists was the employment of a vernacular style to appeal to the readership of an emerging print culture. The subsequent nationalist attempts to simplify the Turkish language led, in Geoffrey Lewis's words, to the catastrophic success of the language revolution of the republican era and had dire consequences for the development of the novel in Turkey.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1632/pmla.2008.123.1.27
dc.identifier.endpage+en_US
dc.identifier.issn0030-8129
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-65849236684en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage27en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2008.123.1.27
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/8106
dc.identifier.volume123en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000266157400003en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherModern Language Assoc Ameren_US
dc.relation.ispartofPmla-Publications of The Modern Language Association of Americaen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.titleThe Wounded Tongue: Turkey's Language Reform and the Canonicity of the Novelen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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