Sociolinguistics
Maryam Farnia
Abstract
Despite the importance of humor as one of the cultural and social elements, most studies in this field have examined humor out of its context, mainly limited to the analysis of canned jokes, whereas conversational humor is the product of a common interaction between the speaker and the audience. In light ...
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Despite the importance of humor as one of the cultural and social elements, most studies in this field have examined humor out of its context, mainly limited to the analysis of canned jokes, whereas conversational humor is the product of a common interaction between the speaker and the audience. In light of this limitation, the present study sought to investigate the conversational humor in Persian. The data were randomly collected from an Iranian talkshow called Doorehmi which was aired on Nasim television channel in 2018. Then, the conversations between the host and the male and female guests were analyzed based on Dynel’s (2009) framework of conversational humor. The results showed that male guests used more humor strategies (n=258) than femal guests (n=220). Moreover, male guests used more witticism, anecdotes and banter compared to female guests, while female guests employed banter, witticism, anecdotes and self-denigration more than male guests in their conversations. Also, the guests did not use the put-down strategy in their interaction with the male host, and self-denigration was absent in the discourse of the male host.
Language & Media
Maryam Farnia; Azade Safi
Abstract
The aim of this cross-cultural study is to investigate conflict management in computer-mediated communication, and to examine users' strategies in online polylogue interaction in response to the posts of LGBTQ groups in the virtual pages of the group's supporters on Instagram. The corpus consisted of ...
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The aim of this cross-cultural study is to investigate conflict management in computer-mediated communication, and to examine users' strategies in online polylogue interaction in response to the posts of LGBTQ groups in the virtual pages of the group's supporters on Instagram. The corpus consisted of 20 Instagram posts with 2071 Persian comments and 1323 English comments collected from July to October 2018, and were analyzed based on Bou-Franch and Blivich's (2014) model of conflict management. The findings showed that defensive/offensive strategies were the most frequently used strategies, which indicated that users in both groups decided to respond to an action that threatened their face or identity. In addition, the frequency of opposing and withdrawing strategies has been higher in Persian than English corpus. Also, the results of inferential statistics show that, in general, the total number of Persian strategies is significantly higher than English, which can be due to its challenging issue and acceptance status in Iranian society.
Language Policies
Maryam Farnia; Safoora Barati
Abstract
Over the last decade, the fields of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics have witnessed a growing interest in research on linguistic landscape. In this connection, numerous studies have investigated language and linguistic signs as used in the living environment. This study was an attempt to explore ...
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Over the last decade, the fields of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics have witnessed a growing interest in research on linguistic landscape. In this connection, numerous studies have investigated language and linguistic signs as used in the living environment. This study was an attempt to explore shop owners' attitudes towards naming their businesses in two areas of high and low social class in Esfahan. To this end, the data were collected from 100 shop owners by means of a questionnaire in the form of likert and a structured interview. The questionnaire was adopted and modified from Hussein, Nofal and Mansour’s (2015) study. It was employed to elicit factors governing the choice of names for businesses in the two areas of high and low socioeconomic status in Esfahan. Owners' attitude towards naming their shops as influenced by language, religion, location and social status has been investigated.The findings showed that there are statistically significant differences between the low and high socioeconomic status groups with regard to the criteria for naming businesses.
