Bibliogr. s. 264-269

Turkish musical terminology is a highly specialized field of inquiry, dealing not only with the linguistic aspects of the contemporary Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) used by Turkish musicians and musicologists, but also with complex socio-cultural issues originating from the history of the reforms of both Turkish music and Turkish language. In this chapter, the author focuses solely on the Ottoman Turkish era. She presents 64 musical terms of Greek and Italian origin collected from 10 Ottoman Turkish dictionaries (17th-19th centuries). She puts the linguistic data into a wider context focusing on two specific diachronic aspects of her broader research on Turkish terminology of art music: 1) how the Greek and Italian languages used by the inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire influenced terminology of the makam music, and 2) to what extent the westernizing reforms of the Ottoman musical culture conducted in the first half of the 19th century are reflected in the lexicography of the period. To answer both questions, she employs a sociocultural understanding of lexicography by seeing the lexicographer as an active observer of not only the language which he describes in a dictionary, but also of the culture of the people who use that language.