CULTURAL NARRATIVES AND DYNAMICS (TURKISH)

The course is part of the core courses in the curriculum teaching the language chosen by the student. The aim of the course is to obtain level C1 of the CEFR

1. Knowledge and comprehension
- To understand complex structures of Turkish reading texts of advanced difficulty and in different special languages
- To acquire notions of sociolinguistics (in particular language policies)

2. Capacity of application
- To deliver abstracts in Turkish in academic texts
- To be able to analyze, comment and scientifically use sociolinguistic data
-- Capacity of translation, into the student's native language, of an academic Turkish text of advanced difficulty, and from the student’s native language to Turkish, of a text of intermediate difficulty.
- To be able to conduct autonomous research

Advanced knowledge of Turkish corresponding to level B2 (CEFR)

- Language Policies and Language Planning (LPLP) – corpus planning / status planning
- Language policies, language rights and the minority languages of Turkey.

Specific issues that will be examined by reading texts in Turkish:
A. Language policy and legal situation of languages in Turkey
B. Minority languages

Issues of unit A:
LPLP – corpus planning / status planning
The Kemalist language reforms
The language policies in Turkey (including the developments of language rights after 1980 (Turgut Özal) and after 2002)
Unit B: The students will apply the acquired notions on one of Turkey's minority languages (e.g. Kurdish, Armenian, Greek, Aramaic, Laz, Arabic).

Boeschoten, Hendrik & Verhoeven, Ludo (a cura di) 1991. Turkish Linguistics Today. Leiden: Brill.

Haig, Geoffrey 2003. The invisibilisation of Kurdish: The other side of language planning in Turkey. In S. Conermann & G. Haig (a cura di), Die Kurden: Studien zu ihrer Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur, 121–150). Schenefeld: EB-Verlag.

Lewis, Geoffrey 1999. The Turkish language reform: a catastrophic success. Oxford University Press.

Schroeder, Christoph & Menz, Astrid (a cura di) 2006. Türkiye’de Dil Tartışmaları. Istanbul Bilgi University.

Spolsky, Bernard 2004. Language policy. Cambridge University Press.

The exam consists of a presentation in class (held in Turkish) and a final paper, as well as an oral (conversation) exam with the language instructors. Students unable to attend the course will deliver the final paper and present a sociolinguistic theme during oral exam.

written and oral

The lecturer has a duty to ensure that the rules regarding the authenticity and originality of exam tests and papers are respected. Therefore, if there is suspicion of irregular conduct, an additional assessment may be conducted, which could differ from the original exam description.

Independently from the attendance modality, evaluation is expressed by the following assessment scale:
18-22:
- sufficient knowledge and capacity to understand what has been requested according to the course program
- sufficient capacity of application of the acquired knowledge through autonomous text and grammar analysis
- sufficient capacity of data collecting and interpretation and of autonomous research

23-26:
. average knowledge and capacity to understand what has been requested according to the course program
- average capacity of application of the acquired knowledge through autonomous text and grammar analysis
- average capacity of data collecting and interpretation and of autonomous research


27-30:
- good or very good knowledge and capacity to understand what has been requested according to the course program
- good or very good capacity of application of the acquired knowledge through autonomous text and grammar analysis
- good or very good capacity of data collecting and interpretation and of autonomous research

The grade of excellence ("lode") is assigned in cases of excellent achievements according to the criteria listed above.

Lecture / seminar with presentations and paper

Students unable to attend the classes are requested to contact the professor at the beginning of the semester.

Attendance of the exercise classes with the language instructors is strongly recommended in both semesters for non Turkish-native students.