Historical aspects of linguistic and emotional changes
Language and Emotion: An International Handbook, De Gruyter, ss.281-301, 2022
- Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2022
- Doi Numarası: 10.1515/9783110347524-013
- Yayınevi: De Gruyter
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.281-301
- Kırklareli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The history of emotions is a complicated field presenting a considerable diversity of views. The story of emotive words and the emotional impact of words in Turkish is further complicated by the lengthy and effective implementation of language planning in Turkey. Even though Turkish language reform is accepted as one of the longest, most famous, and successful implementations of language planning, we know little about how it affected cultural patterns and the emotional life of speakers. This chapter shows a degree of interplay between linguistic and emotional change in the case of Turkish, in particular Ottoman Turkish, at a discursive level. It argues that there was a degree of awareness about the role of language in the formation of a new emotional community in the late Ottoman Empire before the implementation of language planning by the Republican government, even though we don't know much about the implications of this awareness. This process began with the rising concerns about language simplification in the late Ottoman Empire. The formation of linguistic community fuelled a new discussion among the educated class about which emotions should be expressed, cultivated or suppressed. Emotional restraint surfaced as the most important social value of the new emotional community, participated in primarily by the literati and possibly by the readers. Speakers were motivated to unite emotionally in their concern for the common good of their society. In the early Republican period, the principle of monolingualism was implemented in order to speed up linguistic community formation. Ultimately, the chapter leaves us with a picture of a long process of negotiation during which some languages, emotions and words were contested in a largely unsystematic way in order to achieve linguistic and ideological unity.