Dialectology
Seyed Mohammad Hosseini-Maasoum; Reza Heidarizadi
Abstract
Morgenstierne (1960) proposed a hypothesis about an ancient dialect in the south of Iran coexisting with Old Persian. As a piece of evidence for this, he pointed to the dialectal differences of words equivalent to the Persian word “šepeš” (louse) in Fars dialects, especially ...
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Morgenstierne (1960) proposed a hypothesis about an ancient dialect in the south of Iran coexisting with Old Persian. As a piece of evidence for this, he pointed to the dialectal differences of words equivalent to the Persian word “šepeš” (louse) in Fars dialects, especially its difference in Kalimi and Laristani dialects compared to other dialects of Fars. Based on what was recorded as “Ө” in place of “s” in some words, Rezai Baghbidi (2003) claimed that the Shirazi dialect recorded in poems in the classical texts is reminiscent of an ancient dialect different from Old Persian. Before these two, Henning (1934) had regarded the sound “Ө” (which later changed to “t”) in some Shirazi and Manichaean words as a change of the sound “s” that must have occurred in the late middle era of the Iranian history. Finally, this discussion shows that the Old Shirazi (or Fars) dialect hypothesis faces some questions, which if not answered, result in support for Henning’s hypothesis.
Discourse Analysis
Seyed Mohammad Hosseini-Maasoum
Abstract
Speech repair is one of the most important tools for successful conversation and communication, which can occur due to different reasons such as misunderstanding the speaker’s words or hearing/speaking problems. Among the types of repair operations, self-initiated self-repair has the highest frequency. ...
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Speech repair is one of the most important tools for successful conversation and communication, which can occur due to different reasons such as misunderstanding the speaker’s words or hearing/speaking problems. Among the types of repair operations, self-initiated self-repair has the highest frequency. Due to the importance of proper communication between teachers and students in classes, especially virtual classes, the present research is a conversation analysis through the study of types of self-initiated self-repair operations in the speech of teachers’ live teaching for primary school students in the Iranian Education (Amouzesh) TV Channel based on the seven-fold classification of Fox& Jasperson (1995). The analysis of 703 minutes of the educational content showed that among 258 cases of repair, the type “abandon structure, start new structure” had the highest frequency (31%) and “recycle word” had the lowest frequency (2%). The results indicate that most of the repairs correspond to a restructuring of the grammatical form of the sentences. Also, a comparison between the first and the second primary school programs showed that there is not a significant correlation between the educational level of the audience and the frequency of the repairs applied by the teacher.
