Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Iran

This book contributes to understandings of linguistic anthropology within the context of the wider Persianate world, covering Iranian language societies in both their homelands, and in the diaspora. It demarcates language ideologies - feelings, beliefs of language, and linguistic forms in their broad terms; semiotic processes - signs and their indexical meanings; affect emotions, or what sensory perceptions do in society; language socialization and language development; discourse analyses; and literacy, secrecy and textuality. Bringing together linguists and anthropologists to chart the far-reaching diaspora of the Iranian community under the rubric of poetics and anthropology, it is a relevant collection for scholars in Near Eastern studies, in areas of languages and linguistics, literature, semiotics, cultural studies, social sciences, and diaspora studies.

Autorentext

Zia Khoshsirat, PhD, is a researcher in Linguistic Anthropology at UCLA. His research is focused on language ideologies and theories that affect Iranians in diasporic settings.

Inhalt

The Story of Iranian Sign Language.- Sub culture of veil among Indigenous women in Iran.- A multiscalar examination of family language policy of Iranian diaspora in four different countries.- The Language of Games.- Relational Affects Exploring Affective Interactions in Collective Action among the Iranian Diaspora in London.- Linguistic Bridges Iranian Chinese Cultural Intersections in Diasporic Communities.- Orientalism in Reverse Rethinking nativism in the context of multinational Iran.- Persian and Armenian language contact in bilingual Armenian speakers of Tehran the study of code switching borrowing and loan translation in simple and compound.- People on the Move from Mosafers to Mohajers.- Persian discourse markers in bilinguals in Iran.- One Drop Rule How Iranian Jews and Muslims Negotiate Ethno religiosity.- Unspoken Ideologies The Complex Motivations Behind Veiled Discourse.- Orders of Indexicality Iranian Jews and Muslims Regimenting Markedness.- Erfan Unsettling the Concepts of National Ethnoreligious Identity and Consanguineous Kinship.- Name My Language Empirical Geography Experts Authority and Illiterate Commons.- My Accent Has a Skin Language Ideologies and Emotive Regimes of Persian on Gilaki.- Emotional Refuges Among Iranians in Diaspora A Study of Mystic Persian Poetry Classes.- Let Just Sing Perform No More Political Debates Iranian Angelenos Remedy to Avoid Disagreements.- Sadat Tawaher Sign Language A First Sketch.- Counterstories of Heritage Language Education.- Iranian Immigrant Children and Parents Experiences in a Community Based.- Persian Language Program in Southern California.- Linguistic Landscapes of Iranian Grocery.- Stores A Discourse Analysis of Commercial and Cultural Interaction.- Language identity among the Iranian Armenian community Authors for now Afsheen Sharifzadeh Hossep Dolatian.- Iranian Online Sociolinguistics the Past the Present and the Future.- More chapters being invited.