ABSTRACT

As a well documented example of language planning that links national unity with language practice and has resulted in systemic attempts to linguistically and culturally assimilate its Kurdish populations, the Turkish national context has adopted standard language ideologies since its founding. Previous research has highlighted efforts by Kurdish students and restaurant managers to project a Turkish monolingual identity in front of their Turkish peers and customers, respectively, to avoid the negative effects of perceived linguistic profiling. As a means of exploring the salience of these perceptions from Turkish perspectives, the current study used a matched guise test to compare Turkish university students’ language attitudes toward standard vs. Kurdish-accented regional guises. The standard Turkish guises were perceived as significantly younger, more attractive, and more successful than the Kurdish-accented regional guises across all intra-speaker comparisons. In addition to confirming the stigma of Kurdish-accented Turkish, these findings suggest the persistence of singular ideologies of linguistic authority. This orientation renders the multilingual, multidialectal repertoires of Istanbul’s Kurdish-Turkish bilingual migrants who adapt linguistically to suit diverse scales largely invisible within Turkish-dominant settings.

摘要

作为将民族团结与语言实践联系起来并导致系统性尝试在语言和文化上同化其库尔德人口的语言规划的一个有据可查的例子，土耳其民族自成立以来就采用了标准的语言意识形态。先前的研究强调了库尔德学生和餐厅经理为分别在土耳其同龄人和客户面前展示土耳其单语身份，以避免感知语言特征的负面影响所做的努力。作为从土耳其人的角度探索这些看法的显着性的一种手段，当前的研究使用匹配的伪装测试来比较土耳其大学生对标准与库尔德口音区域伪装的语言态度。标准的土耳其伪装被认为显着年轻，在所有演讲者内部比较中，它比库尔德口音的区域伪装更有吸引力，也更成功。除了证实库尔德口音土耳其语的耻辱之外，这些发现还表明语言权威的单一意识形态的持续存在。这种取向使得伊斯坦布尔的库尔德-土耳其双语移民的多语言、多方言曲目在语言上适应不同的尺度，在土耳其主导的环境中基本上是不可见的。