Sociolinguistics
Ali Reza Gholi Famian; Mandana kolahduz Mohamadi
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Titles, kinship terms and nicknames are supplementary words that are voluntarily inserted next to the individuals’ names and are often used to pay tribute and show the kinship relation or social status of the person. The purpose of this study is to investigate the social titles, kinship terms as ...
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Titles, kinship terms and nicknames are supplementary words that are voluntarily inserted next to the individuals’ names and are often used to pay tribute and show the kinship relation or social status of the person. The purpose of this study is to investigate the social titles, kinship terms as well as nicknames in 424 condolence letters collected from different areas in Tabriz, Iran. This paper reports a descriptive-analytical study. Findings indicate that there are many differences between using kinship terms and social titles as far as the gender of individuals are concerned. According to the findings, the frequency of social titles in the group of men (2781) is much higher than the frequency in that of women (328), which emphasizes the importance of the social roles attached to men in the genre under study. On the other hand, the number of kinship titles for women is higher, both in terms of type (51 cases) and in terms of frequency (1599), which in fact compensates for the limitation of titles and social titles for women. Regarding the reference to job titles such as "doctor" and "engineer", the frequency of job titles is higher in men corpus
Sociolinguistics
sara jokar; Bahman Zandi; Hossein Rahmani; Ali Reza Gholi Famian
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to explore high school girls' graffiti from the perspective of sociolinguistics. The article starts with a review of previous research and then, the relevant theoretical framework was presented. For the purpose of data collection, photography was used to document the graffiti. ...
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The purpose of this article is to explore high school girls' graffiti from the perspective of sociolinguistics. The article starts with a review of previous research and then, the relevant theoretical framework was presented. For the purpose of data collection, photography was used to document the graffiti. The sample consisted of 705 graffiti of two high schools in Tehran and Karaj. The data were first analyzed in terms of writing system and then in terms of contents. The research method was descriptive and documentary. The results of the study indicate that the Persian script has the most writings. Also, the special name, cheating, handwriting, memento, taboo, humor and joke and calling God were the most common contents of the graffiti. The results of one-sample t-test confirmed that most graffiti are contents for expressing emotions such as love and hate, and fewer are for expressing non-emotional issues.The statistical population included 705 graffiti of two high schools in Tehran and Karaj. The data were first analyzed in terms of writing system and then in terms of contents. The research method was descriptive and documentary. The results of the study indicate that the Persian script has the most writings. Also, the special name, cheating, handwriting, memento, taboo, humor and joke and reading God are the most common contents of the graffiti. The results of one-sample t-test confirmed that most graffiti are contents for expressing emotions such as love and hate, and fewer are for expressing non-emotional issues.
