Description
Korangy and Sharifian’s groundbreaking book offers the first in-depth study into cultural linguistics for the Persian language. The book highlights a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents, wherever spoken, can be examined. Linguistics with cultural studies as its backdrop is not a new phenomenon; however, with this text we are afforded an insight into the complex relationship that exists between human cognizance and human expression in this ancient civilization. This study helps develop an innovative understanding of history, intent, and meaning as understood by a culture and by a people, in this case the Persian-speaking folk of Iran. The chapters are insightful resources for analyzing and augmenting our knowledge of linguistics under the rubric of Persian culture but also for proposing and foregrounding new ideas in this field of study.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. A cultural linguistic survey of nuances in translation 2. Self-abasement and other-elevating through Persian address forms and self-reference terms 3. Ta’ārof – the key to Iranian social behavior 4. Inflectional morphemes in Persian address terms: a sociolinguistic analysis 5. Compliment response strategies used by Iranian Persian speakers: new patterns and new cultural schema 6. Violence in Persian 7. Conceptualizations of sadness in Persian 8. Cultural conceptualizations of animal expressions in Persian 9. Cultural conceptualizations of sharm (shame) in Persian 10. Not-being in the presence of being: conceptualizations of death in Rumi’s Mathnavi 11. Cultural conceptualizations of compliments in Persian
