Abstract
Does the Feeling of Inferiority Reflect Language Use?
The feeling of inferiority is the confusion of a person who does not believe he is
capable of solving a problem he/she faces. An individual evaluates whether the language
he/she uses is sufficient or insufficient, based on the society. Due to insufficient language
perception, foreign words and foreign language rules can be used more. If the language
used in the communication has worked, the individual can enter into an acceptance
without checking whether it is true or false. With the increase in these acceptances,
the rules of a foreign language start to be more effective in a mother tongue. To call
such a language a mother tongue means to ignore a sense of humiliation emerges in the
language caused by wannabe and the perception of the self as weakness. Considering the
area in which it is spoken, Turkish is a language that has interacted with many languages
and incorporated new elements. The aim of this study is to describe whether the feeling
of inferiority is reflected in the language behaviors of language users in the direct use
of foreign words entering Turkish or not preferring newly produced Turkish equivalents
for concepts and terms, and in which situations the feeling of inferiority may have
arisen. In this study, using Alfred Adler’s principles of inferiority complex, the reflection
areas of this complex in language have been tried to be discussed. It was emphasized
how situations such as hopelessness, negative life experiences, weakness of the self,
worthlessness, dysfunctionality and wantingness due to the use of words in a foreign
language instead of Turkish will build the feeling of inferiority in Turkish language use.
Non-interactive qualitative research design was used in the study. The data are selected
from daily language examples and described.
Keywords
Feeling of İnferiority, Alfred Adler, Language, Turkish, Language Use.
