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WorksheetsBuilding Turkish Language
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 11mins
Which are the three factors that drove the birth of nations and nationalism?
Capitalism, the administrative use of Latin, and vernaculars.
Capitalism, printing press, and mass media.
Capitalism, printing press, and vernaculars.
Which of the following is NOT a key historical event in Anderson's "Imagined Communities"?
The invention of the printing press
The Thirty-Years War
The Reformation
Can you explain why languages are, according to Anderson, crucial to national formation?
"Imagined Communities" is a book that theorizes about:
Colonialism and the Colonial Imaginary
The fall of monarchies in Europe
Nations and Nationalism
Which of the following is an example of going beyond national formation merely through language consolidation?
Turkey's process of national formation was achieved through the consolidation of an unified language; however, this process was not natural; rather, tha language was strategically exploited for national formation
South American countries shared the same language as Spain, however, they "imagined" their national communities beyond language and through the use of other shared identity factors.
Which of the following factors would you consider cultural media in relation to national formation?
Borders
Sports, Music, Fashion
Institutions such as the Parliament
Nations and nationalism are, according to Anderson:
Ideational factors just as languages, flags or chants
Mass media
Social constructs
What is an imagined community, according to Benedict Anderson
In the efforts of unifying language in Turkey, intellectuals opted for which "version"?
Turkish used by ordinary people
Literary Turkish
Turkish vocabulary formed by Arab and Persian words
Ottoman Turkish
Which version of "Istanbul Turkish" became the national language?
The spoken but not written
The written but not spoken
Why a new language was so important to the nation building process Turkey lived in the beginning of last century?
To become part of the United Nations
To help people understand each other
For literary reasons
To prevent the dissolution of the Empire
To Ziya Gokalp, what is the main factor that defines a nation?
Geography
Ethnicity
Language
Race
