Full Description
This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents can be examined and parsed with the view of understanding better the devices and paths through which language, and cultural cognizance, operate in tandem. As the first book in English to engage Persian dialects and dialectology on a broad and comprehensive scale, it develops an understanding of the paths through which maximization of the expressive power of words exists in Persian under the rubric of cultural conceptualizations. An insightful and all-encompassing resource for analyzing and augmenting knowledge of Persian linguistics, this work presents a thorough and all-encompassing interdisciplinary treatment of Persian. It is a vital resource for socio- and cultural linguists, as well as anthropologists and Iranists. It is also an excellent reference for historians researching Persian civilization, culture, literature and art.
Contents
1. Judeo-Persian Texts from Bukhara.- 2. Hazaragi and linguistic behaviour of the Hazaras.- 3. Historical Dialectology of Persian and the Dialects of the Fārs Province .- 4. A Persian-lexified pidgin recorded in 18th-century Japan.- 5. Outstanding problems in Persian historical phonology: toward a quantitative solution.- 6. Dialectal Variation: The Case of Kermanshahi Persian.- 7. Spoken Persian in Afghanistan: The colloquial standard of Dari.- 8. On the analysis of geminates in Iranian Sistani dialect.- 9. Dialectometry Analysis of Language Varieties in Yazd Province.- 10. Sitting on the ground between two carpets: The co-effect of Arabic and Lari on the Persian fluency of Lari native speakers.- 11. A corpus-based analysis of faux amis (false friends) in Persian and Tajik varieties: Pragmatic and pedagogical solutions.- 12. Grammaticalization of Persian Light Verbs:The Case of Clitic Climbing in the Complex Predicates of Persian Dialects.- 13. Phonetics and Phonology of Cliticsin Formal and Informal Persian.- 14. Kinship and bird terminology in the dialects of Southeast Iran: a survey of words for child, chicken, and sparrow.- 15. Triggers and Targets: Nasals and Vowels in Tehrani Persian.- 16. Speakers' Attitudes Toward Regional, Shirazi and Standard Persian: A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Lectal Study on Persian in Fars Province.- 17. The Dialect of Esfahan Revisited Phonological Analysis.- 18. Bāseri Dialect of Fārs.
