- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- The Contributors
- Introduction
- From Old to New Persian
- Typological Approaches and Dialects
- Phonetics
- Phonology
- Prosody
- Generative Approaches to Syntax
- Other Approaches to Syntax
- Specific Features of Persian Syntax: The <i>Ezafe</i> construction, differential object marking, and complex predicates
- Morphology
- Lexicography
- Academy of Persian Language and Literature
- Sociolinguistics
- Language contact and multilingualism in Iran
- Persian as a Heritage Language
- Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages
- Psycholinguistics
- Neurolinguistics
- Computational Linguistics
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
Abstract and Keywords
The present chapter is an overview of sociolinguistic studies in the Persian-speaking territory with an emphasis on Iran and is divided into two general parts. In the first part, different aspects of Persian sociolinguistics are discussed at the macro level and issues such as dialect studies, and language contact in the Persian-speaking area are briefly reviewed. In the second part, some issues such as social variations in Persian, change in progress and standard varieties of Persian are briefly analysed at the micro level. The main focus of this chapter therefore, is on language diversity in a multilingual area in general, and social and regional variations in the Persian-speaking area in particular.
Keywords: sociolinguistics, variation, Persian, multilingualism, language change, standard Persian
Yahya Modarresi received his PhD from the University of Kansas, USA and is currently a Professor of Linguistics at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (I.H.C.S.). He has taught sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics in the Department of Linguistics, IHCS, and the Department of Anthropology, University of Tehran. His books include An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (1989) and Language and Migration (2015). He has written many articles in academic journals. At present, he is the Editor in Chief of the journal of the Linguistics Society of Iran. He has also been a member of the editorial board of different academic journals, including the International Journal of the Sociology of Language for many years.
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- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- The Contributors
- Introduction
- From Old to New Persian
- Typological Approaches and Dialects
- Phonetics
- Phonology
- Prosody
- Generative Approaches to Syntax
- Other Approaches to Syntax
- Specific Features of Persian Syntax: The <i>Ezafe</i> construction, differential object marking, and complex predicates
- Morphology
- Lexicography
- Academy of Persian Language and Literature
- Sociolinguistics
- Language contact and multilingualism in Iran
- Persian as a Heritage Language
- Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages
- Psycholinguistics
- Neurolinguistics
- Computational Linguistics
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
