The corpus-based analysis of different Iranian age-groups' lexis

This book is a corpus-based analysis of different Iranian age-groups' lexis in their daily conversations. The data which have been gathered through semi-structured interviews were put under investigation to check the lexical choice inclinations of different age-groups. The results revealed remarkable variations regarding lexical choice criteria of the participants. This inquiry is one of the first attempts to illuminate the possible differences of speech patterns among different generations of the Iranian society.

Autorentext

Mohammad Saber Khaghaninejad as an assistant professor in TEFL at Shiraz University,Iran has published more than 30 articles in validated academic journals and offered general and technical courses at many Iranian universities for a decade now. His areas of interest are "language acquisition", "teaching methodology" and "sociolinguistics".

Klappentext

This book is a corpus-based analysis of different Iranian age-groups' lexis in their daily conversations. The data which have been gathered through semi-structured interviews were put under investigation to check the lexical choice inclinations of different age-groups. The results revealed remarkable variations regarding lexical choice criteria of the participants. This inquiry is one of the first attempts to illuminate the possible differences of speech patterns among different generations of the Iranian society.