Mustafa Kamal Atatürk (1881-1938) e la sua ‘rivoluzione semiotica’. La riforma della Turchia nell’ottica di una laicità “alaturka” fra politiche linguistiche e strategie semiotico-comunicative

Mustafa Kamal Atatürk (1881-1938) and his ‘semiotic revolution’. Turkey’s reform from the perspective of an “alaturka” secularism between linguistic policies and semiotic-communicative strategies · Atatürk’s project looked at the West, reformed the script system of the Turkish language, which is central, but the reformation involved also the communication of modern Turkey. This paper deals with the semiotic and cultural features of the Turkish modernizing revolution operated by Mustafa Kamal Atatürk, and how they contributed to the delineation and consolidation of a national identity.