![]() ![]() Turkish society has predetermined strict traditional male and female behaviors and roles and has made them central and permanent within its own culture through language. In Turkish, gender norms in language is common and sexist ideology is being perpetuated through it. Like in most ideologies language is effective on gender ideology. One of them postulates that gender in language has a semantic role, and that implementation of gender is one of the ways in which languages differ. ![]() According to this hypothesis, language affects a person’s perception of reality and by extension, the way he or she views the world.Īfter this hypothesis was offered, purporting to explain the relationship between language and thought, some predictions were made in relation to it. ![]() Linguist, Edward Sapir, and his student, Benjamin Lee Whorf, hypothesized that the language we speak could control much of the ways we think about the world around us, as well as our abilities and behavior. Since ancient times, the relationship among language, culture and the mind constitutes one of the main areas of discussion and research aimed at understanding the dynamics of human society and existence. ![]()
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