Sociolinguistics
Abbas Ali Ahangar; Seddigheh Zeynali Dastuyi; Somayyeh Mirkazehi,
Abstract
The adressee’s social dominance as well as the age of the subjects are among the factors influencing the use of type and number of request strategies by the speakers of any language. The purpose of the present research is to study the effect of the adressee’s social dominance on the type ...
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The adressee’s social dominance as well as the age of the subjects are among the factors influencing the use of type and number of request strategies by the speakers of any language. The purpose of the present research is to study the effect of the adressee’s social dominance on the type and number of request strategies employed by adolescent and young female Balochi Sarhaddi speakers based on the components of Blum-Kalka, House and Kasper's (1989) Cross Cultural Speech Act Realization Project model. Research data were collected from 60 female subjects through discourse completion test and role play. In this regard, all request strategies employed were identified, coded, described and then analyzed by Chi-square test. The results showed there was not a significant relationship in the use of type and number of strategies in DCT and role play between the addressee´s social dominance and the age of the subjects (except when the interlocutors have equal status). Moreover, the most commonly used types of strategies were pronouns, hedged performatives, grounders, and politeness markers. Also, increasing the addressee's social dominance towards the speaker resulted in using more complicated strategies by the subjects. Furthermore, new strategies such as saying "Mashaalla", "swearing" and "complimenting" were used by the subjects. Therefore, the research findings contribute to the explanation of universal and specific cross cultural-linguistic strategies based on the research model.
Discourse Analysis
Abbas Ali Ahangar; Amir Ali Khoshkhoonejad; Soheila Khademi
Abstract
Cinema represents political, social and cultural realities. Critical discourse analysis also signifies linguistic text realities based on features such as ideology, society, culture and policy. The purpose of the present research is to provide a study of sociol discourses of the movie Cow based on Laclau ...
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Cinema represents political, social and cultural realities. Critical discourse analysis also signifies linguistic text realities based on features such as ideology, society, culture and policy. The purpose of the present research is to provide a study of sociol discourses of the movie Cow based on Laclau and Mouffe’s (2001) theory. To this end, the full text of the conversations of the movie Cow was examined. Then, th data were described and analyzed for the discourse features proposed in Laclau and Mouffe’s (2001) theory. The results of the study indicate that the discourse of the movie is articulated around the central signifier Cow’s death" and the floating signifiers such as "poverty", "being religious", "unemployment", "closed society", "lying", "dependency on Cow", "unity", "unawareness" and "metamorphosis". In addition, the dominant discourses of the movie are "religion, tradition and collectivism". Through the examination of the highlights and background features of role of the actors and actresses in the movie Cow, it was found that the signifiers "lying", "metamorphosis" and "poverty" are highlighted in this movie whereas the floating signifier "being religious" is backgrounded.
Sociolinguistics
Abbas Ali Ahangar; Setareh Mojahedi Rezaeian; Fariba Esfandiarpoor
Abstract
This study investigates the effect of the addressee’s power on the type and number of giving advice strategies, such as “on record”, “negative politeness”, “two” and “three” combination, employed by Persian male and female university students based ...
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This study investigates the effect of the addressee’s power on the type and number of giving advice strategies, such as “on record”, “negative politeness”, “two” and “three” combination, employed by Persian male and female university students based on Brown and Levinson’s (1987) theory. A number of 60 M.A students (30 males and 30 females) from the University of Sistan and Baluchestan participated in this study. Discourse completion tests and role play techniques were utilized as two data gathering methods. The data were analyzed using the Chi-square test. The results of the two data collection methods show that the addressee’s power affects the type and the number of giving advice strategies and there is a significant relationship between the addressee’s power and the type as well as the number of giving advice strategies employed by male and female university students. The most frequent strategy type is the “negative politeness” strategies while the least frequent type are “don’t do face threatening act” strategies. As to the number of the strategies, the most frequent and less frequent ones are the combination of three and nine strategies respectively.
Sociolinguistics
Abbas Ali Ahangar; Mahboobeh Shahsavar
Abstract
Different speakers of Persian varieties have sociolects developed due to various social variables. The present descriptive-analytic study aims at descrbing vowel variations of Nebandani dialect of Persian and investigating the effect of social variables including gender, age and education on the use ...
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Different speakers of Persian varieties have sociolects developed due to various social variables. The present descriptive-analytic study aims at descrbing vowel variations of Nebandani dialect of Persian and investigating the effect of social variables including gender, age and education on the use of the given variations. Having interviewed the informants, the relevant vowel variations were extracted from the recorded speech of 24 qualified adolescents, young and old speakers. Due to the high rate of immigration to this area, the samples were selected purposefully. After transcibing their speech, the frequency of the recurrent vowel variations was determined and the remaining variations were just described. The results showed that education played an important role in distinguishing the speech of different speakers. Females’ speech in both literate and non-literate groups, with the exception of non-literate old women, was closer to the standard Persian. In young and old speaker groups, aging had different results with regard to different vowel variations. The results also revealed that adolescents rarely used some variations having historical roots. However, concerning variations with no historical origin, they used more non-standard forms. It was also found that gender played an important role in differentiating the speech of male and female speakers. The speech of adolescent girls having literate and non-literate parents was closer to standard Persian than the boys of the same group. Therefore, it can be concluded that sociolects occur even in small language communities speaking their own speech variety and having high language solidarity.
Dialectology
A.A. Ahangar; P. Yousefian; H.A. Khadkhoda
Volume 1, Issue 1 , January 2017, , Pages 21-35
Abstract
Each language continues to survive by means of some of its variations. One of the important sub-domains of sociology of language deals with the geographical distributions of these variations. The aim of this study is to investigate the geographical distribution of some vowel variations in Sistani dialect ...
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Each language continues to survive by means of some of its variations. One of the important sub-domains of sociology of language deals with the geographical distributions of these variations. The aim of this study is to investigate the geographical distribution of some vowel variations in Sistani dialect spoken in Shahraki-Naroui and Miyankangi regions of Sistan. To this end, we provided the free speech of one or two of the above fifty-year-old uneducated or less educated female and male speakers in 28 villages. Then a questionnaire including a lexical list was prepared and carried out. Finally, the exact area of each vowel variation was specified by using linguistic maps and drawing isoglosses via Geogrephical Information System (GIS) software. The research findings reveal that vowel raising, lowering, fronting and backing, and vowel simplification processes are considerably observed in these two regions. Similarly, noticeable Middle Persian linguistic remnants such as vowel length process and some cases of vowel retention can be intentioned. In addition, in spite of the linguistic similarities, because of some differences in the speech of the speakers, some accents coulde be identified in Sistani dialect spoken in these two regions. The most conspicuous one is Bârâni (locally pronounced Bârni) accent in Miyankangi region the speakers of which use the vowel variations more similar to those of the standard Persian language.
