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Public discourse on machine-generated Turkish: Standard language ideology and linguistic authority

Makine üretimi Türkçe üzerine kamusal söylem: Standart dil ideolojisi ve dilsel otorite

Fırat Başbuğ(İSTANBUL MEDENİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ)0000-0001-9824-123X
Pages
423–442
Publication Date
2026-10-21
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It proposes that standardization theory distinguish intentional-institutional from statistical-infrastructural agents and reads the Turkish case as their announced coupling.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Fluent machine-generated Turkish has given new life to an old evaluative question: is the machine ruining Turkish, or does it write the language better than its speakers do?
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Key Findings & Data:The stances are then traced in a purposively selected set of fifteen Turkish public texts from 2024 to 2026, comprising statements of the Türk Dil Kurumu, editorial and practitioner commentary, academic evaluations of machine-generated Turkish, and two empirical measurements.
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⚙️Variables:dil ideolojileri · standartlaşma · üretken yapay zekâ

Abstract

Fluent machine-generated Turkish has given new life to an old evaluative question: is the machine ruining Turkish, or does it write the language better than its speakers do? This article treats the question, and the stances it organizes, as objects of analysis. Drawing on the theory of language ideologies, it first argues that judgments of machine Turkish can be analyzed through the mechanisms of iconization and erasure, which make four stances available: degradation, correction, authenticity, and the institutional criterion. The stances are then traced in a purposively selected set of fifteen Turkish public texts from 2024 to 2026, comprising statements of the Türk Dil Kurumu, editorial and practitioner commentary, academic evaluations of machine-generated Turkish, and two empirical measurements. Each unit was coded for its verdict, criterion, named features, semiotic mechanism, assigned role, and any genre exempted from the verdict. All four stances are attested, and the genre exemption that the framework leads one to expect is observed twice. The article then distinguishes three grades of the machine's involvement in standardization: standardizing pressure, documented by audits of English-language systems; discursive authorization, whose traces appear in the set; and institutional coupling, documented in the norm authority's corpus and language-model program with a domestic partner. It proposes that standardization theory distinguish intentional-institutional from statistical-infrastructural agents and reads the Turkish case as their announced coupling.

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Makine üretimi akıcı Türkçe, eski bir değerlendirme sorusunu yeniden gündeme getirmiştir: Makine Türkçeyi bozuyor mu, yoksa dili konuşurlarından daha mı iyi yazıyor? Bu makale soruyu ve örgütlediği tutumları çözümleme nesnesi olarak ele alır. Dil ideolojileri kuramına yaslanarak önce makine Türkçesine yönelik yargıların ikonlaşma ve silme mekanizmalarıyla çözümlenebileceğini ve bu mekanizmaların dört tutumu olanaklı kıldığını savunur: bozulma, düzeltme, otantiklik ve kurumsal ölçüt. Tutumlar, 2024–2026 tarihli on beş Türkçe kamusal metinden oluşan amaçlı bir belge setinde izlenir; set Türk Dil Kurumu açıklamalarını, editör ve uygulayıcı yorumlarını, makine üretimi Türkçeyi değerlendiren akademik çalışmaları ve iki görgül ölçümü kapsar. Her birim yargı, ölçüt, anılan özellikler, göstergebilimsel mekanizma, makineye atfedilen rol ve tür muafiyeti boyutlarında kodlanmıştır. Dört tutumun tümü tanıklanmış, kuramsal çerçeveden beklenen tür muafiyeti iki kez gözlenmiştir. Makale, makinenin standartlaşma sürecindeki rolünü üç boyutta tanımlar: İngilizce sistemlerdeki denetimlerin gösterdiği standartlaştırıcı baskı, incelenen metinlerde izlerine rastlanan söylemsel yetkilendirme ve norm otoritesinin yerli bir ortakla başlattığı derlem programıyla kanıtlanan kurumsal eklemlenme. Bu doğrultuda, standartlaşma kuramının niyetli-kurumsal failleri istatistiksel-altyapısal faillerden ayırması gerektiği savunulmaktadır.

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Başbuğ, F. (2026). Public discourse on machine-generated Turkish: Standard language ideology and linguistic authority. Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları, Sayı: 34, 423–442. https://doi.org/10.30767/diledeara.2025244

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