Communication Studies, Department of
Date of this Version
11-2010
Citation
Communication Studies 61:5 (November–December 2010), pp. 485–506.
doi: 10.1080/10510974.2010.515895
Abstract
This article explores the “Great Speech” Nutuk, delivered in 1927 by Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. In analyzing Nutuk and its rhetorical features, we identify the mythic underpinnings Atatürk employed to construct a modern “Turkish people.” We use this case to further our understanding of the constitutive discourses of nationalism. We believe Atatürk’s Nutuk provides a profitable discourse to think with as we attempt to understand Muslim nations and their negotiation of modernity.
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