The Political Language of Takvîm-i vekayi:the Discourse and Temporality of Ottoman ‘Reform’ (1831-1834)
Journal: European journal of Turkish studies
Year: 2020

Based on the first years of Takvîm-i vekayi and Le Moniteur Ottoman, this study aims to shed light on the Ottoman political language and the rhetoric of the political authority in the early 1830s, focusing on one of the semantic fields that shapes it: the vocabulary of the reform. The official gazette is a corpus containing a large number of texts that express a collective political thought in the making that, beginning in 1826 when the Janissary Corps was abolished, gradually bore a new configu