Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Professor of Sociology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
2 Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
3 Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
Abstract
Safavid era is one of the important periods in the history of Iran, where Persian and Turkish languages interacted with each other. This article investigates the function of Persian, Turkish, and Arabic languages in Safavid era Iran, as well as the lexical borrowing between Persian and Turkish languages, within the framework of Bourdieu's linguistic market theory. For this purpose, Persian and Turkish loanwords were collected by content analysis method and analyzed according to Bourdieu's linguistic market perspective. The results show that during Safavid era, these three languages, coexisted with each other. Arabic was the language of religion and science; and introduced religious, and scientific words and terms into Persian and Turkish. Persian was the language of poetry and literature; It had legitimacy in the literary circles and has lent poetic and literary words and terms into Turkish, and Turkish as the language of Shahs and army; was used in the army and court environment and has lent military and government words and terms into Persian. Therefore, the dominance of each of these languages in a certain social field is because of its speaker’s authority and competence in that field, not the nature of that language.
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