英文摘要 |
This article explores the history of Turkish languages and its relation with different political powers. It mainly tackles how the 1920s-30s Turkish language reforms by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) related to the tradition of caesaropapism and how the relation thus impacted on his language policies. Following the conception of "print capitalism," this article analyzes the practice of how Atatürk and his followers made good use of the mechanism of the public power and print culture to reproduce the knowledge of the national language. through the process of language standardization and practice, the Turkish imagined communities were shaped, the Turkish people and culture were modernized, and the Turkishness was (re)defined. |