The Sociolinguistics of Iran’s Languages at Home and Abroad : The Case of Persian, Azerbaijani, and Kurdish

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The Sociolinguistics of Iran’s Languages at Home and Abroad : The Case of Persian, Azerbaijani, and Kurdish

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The Case of Persian, Azerbaijani, and Kurdish

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edited by Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi

Contributor

• Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi

Editor

• Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi

Subject

• Ethnology-Middle East
• Indo-Iranian philology
• Language policy
• Linguistic change
• Multilingualism
• Sociolinguistics

Language

eng

Summary

This book examines the sociolinguistics of some of Iran’s languages at home and in the diaspora. The first part of the book examines the politics of minority languages and the presence of hegemonic discourses which favour Persian (Farsi) in Iran, exploring issues such as language maintenance and shift, linguistic ideologies and practices among Azerbaijani and Kurdish-speaking communities. The authors then go on to examine Iranians’ linguistic ideologies, practices and (trans)national identity construction in the diaspora, investigating both the challenges of maintaining a home language and the strategies and linguistic repertoires employed when constructing a diasporic identity away from home. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of minority languages and communities, diaspora and migration studies, and language policy and planning. Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prior to taking up his fellowship at Nanyang Technological University, he completed his PhD at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.--

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