Jennifer Manoukian
Biographic Data
| ID | 5898179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Manoukian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Manoukian |
| SIGNATURE | MANOUKIAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California System |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1260-6582 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Clinging to the Classical
The history of Armenian education in the Ottoman Empire has been sorely understudied. As a result, misconceptions abound in Armenian studies about how precisely Armenian children were educated. This article strives to debunk two prevailing myths about nineteenth-century Ottoman Armenian education circulating in scholarship today: (1) that the Armenian National Constitution and its National Education Council were transformational forces in the ref…
Mixed
This article strives to offer the historical sociolinguistic context needed to understand the use of Turkish loanwords in the informal Western Armenian spoken today. It does so by proposing a new framing for pre-twentieth-century Armenian dialects that underscores their openness to contact-induced change. This new framing aims to counter purist currents in scholarly and popular discourses that have treated loanwords in Armenian – Turkish and othe…
Forbidden Attraction
This article begins the work of excavating the varied attitudes toward Turkish that existed among Ottoman Armenians in the nineteenth century. It seeks to correct a fundamental misunderstanding about the relationship between Ottoman Armenians and the Turkish language, to reframe Ottoman Armenians as agents in their use of Turkish, and to expose Turkish as something far more than a "language of the oppressor" for many Armenians in the empire. The …
Cultural nationalism and the spread of a ‘national language’ among Arabophone, Turcophone and Kurdophone Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1840 to c. 1860
This article explores the historical moment in which the concept of a ‘national language’ began to spread among Ottoman Armenians. It does so by examining the establishment of educational associations aimed at changing the language practices of non-Armenophone Armenians in three parts of the Ottoman Empire: Aleppo, Kayseri and Diyarbekir. I argue that these associations were part of a larger cultural nationalist movement that gained momentum in u…
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Cultural nationalism and the spread of a ‘national language’ among Arabophone, Turcophone and Kurdophone Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1840 to c. 1860
This article explores the historical moment in which the concept of a ‘national language’ began to spread among Ottoman Armenians. It does so by examining the establishment of educational associations aimed at changing the language practices of non-Armenophone Armenians in three parts of the Ottoman Empire: Aleppo, Kayseri and Diyarbekir. I argue that these associations were part of a larger cultural nationalist movement that gained momentum in u…
Forbidden Attraction
This article begins the work of excavating the varied attitudes toward Turkish that existed among Ottoman Armenians in the nineteenth century. It seeks to correct a fundamental misunderstanding about the relationship between Ottoman Armenians and the Turkish language, to reframe Ottoman Armenians as agents in their use of Turkish, and to expose Turkish as something far more than a "language of the oppressor" for many Armenians in the empire. The …
Clinging to the Classical
The history of Armenian education in the Ottoman Empire has been sorely understudied. As a result, misconceptions abound in Armenian studies about how precisely Armenian children were educated. This article strives to debunk two prevailing myths about nineteenth-century Ottoman Armenian education circulating in scholarship today: (1) that the Armenian National Constitution and its National Education Council were transformational forces in the ref…
Mixed
This article strives to offer the historical sociolinguistic context needed to understand the use of Turkish loanwords in the informal Western Armenian spoken today. It does so by proposing a new framing for pre-twentieth-century Armenian dialects that underscores their openness to contact-induced change. This new framing aims to counter purist currents in scholarly and popular discourses that have treated loanwords in Armenian – Turkish and othe…
Turkey's Politics and Society (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Armenian (2 works) · Cyprus History, Politics, Society (2 works) · Gender Studies in Language (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Nationalism (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)