Use of Turkisms in the Register of Khutbahs in the Albanian Language

Abstract

The present research deals with an important part of the Albanian lexicon known as Turkisms which has been the subject of numerous studies of the Balkan languages. Namely, this research aims at analyzing the presence and status of Turkisms in khutbahs as a specific register of the spoken language. The analysis of the use of this part of the Albanian lexicon is done based on the theory of corpus linguistics, the theory of languages in contact and the so­ciolinguistic approach to language varieties. The study relies on the linguistic multifunctionality and pluralism, on the basis of which we claim that the use of Turkisms in different registers and styles disables their replacement with Albanian words. The study was conducted in search of the answer to the ques­tion: Have Turkisms shifted from formal to in-formal registers?