Модерният турски език: романтичната носталгия по майчиния говор и силата на централното езиково планиране
The Modern Turkish Language: the Romantic Nostalgia to the Mother Tongue and the Strength of Centralised Language Planning

Summary/Abstract: The article deals in historic perspective with the ideologies of the standardization of the national formal languages on the Balkans from the beginning of 19th century to 20th century, particularly in Turkey, which had a lot of features in common. The national languages are considered as the country territories with front lines between them to protect their homogeneity and uniqueness. The standardization of Turkish of the beginning of the 20th century united some controversial ideological trends such as nationalism, europeism, Turk purism, constructivism. It managed to provide those pragmatic trends in language and culture which were necessary for Turkey in order to function in the New Time; however, the price for it was the loss of history and a number of semantic nuances in stylistic registers, unification and uniting of the language expression.

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