Modernization as a problem of language. The case of the top-down language management in Turkey

Abstrakt

The paper focuses on the role that conflicts around modernization project play in the "top-down" language management in Turkey. It reveals that a common set of conflicting non-linguistic interests can be related to the alternative views on the modernization project and that the distribution of power enables different actors to effectively introduce non-linguistic interests as "problems of language".

Klíčová slova

• langauge management
• modernization
• Turkey
• Turkish Language Association