Attitude towards Azeri language in Iran: a large-scale survey research

Rezaei, Saeed; Latifi, Ashkan; Nematzadeh, Arash

doi:10.1080/01434632.2017.1342652

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“…Language policies of this kind have not been without their impact on Azerbaijani-speaking families. Despite the Azerbaijani speakers’ general positive attitudes towards their language (Rezaei, Latifi, & Nematzadeh 2017), traces of gradual language shift to Persian in families have been observed (Mirhosseini & Abazari 2016). As Mirhosseini & Abazari's (2016) study shows, only about half of their participants consider it valuable to have Azerbaijani offered in the education system.…”

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Examining family language policy through realist social theory

Mirvahedi

2020

Lang. Soc.

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In this article, I argue that one social theory that could help us better understand the interaction between social structure and human agency in the context of family language policy (FLP) research is realist social theory. FLP studies in multilingual contexts have shown that home often becomes a site where dominant societal ideologies and discourses of structuring nature compete with individual views and agency, ultimately informing language behavior. Realist social theory advocates the analytical separation of structure and agency and attributes causal powers to both social structures and individual agency. This conceptualization of structure and agency prevents us from falling into structural determinism or individual voluntarism. Through examining the linguistic ideologies and practices of thirteen mothers of young children in Tabriz, Iran, I illustrate how family language policy emerges in interaction with and response to structural powers. (Family language policy, realist social theory, Iranian Azerbaijanis, agency, social structures, language maintenance)

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Examining family language policy through realist social theory

Mirvahedi

2020

Lang. Soc.

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“…While scholars' approaches to studying language varieties are valuable, increasing attention has been paid to folk perception of language varieties (Rezaei & Bahrami, 2019;Rezaei et al, 2017), folk linguistic perspectives regarding mapping language varieties (Preston, 1989(Preston, , 1999a, status of language varieties and speech communities (Preston, 2016;Saville-Troike, 2003), linguistic labels (Dabir-Moghaddam, 2008;Modarresi, 2014), and significance of community membership and sociocultural values (Fishman, 1965(Fishman, , 1972Gumperz, 1964;Saville-Troike, 2003) in language identification.…”

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“…As the largest ethnic minority, nearly 20 million people of Iran's population of 80 million speak Azeri as their mother tongue (Rezaei et al, 2017). Major dialects of this language include Tabrizi, Urumia'i, Ardebili, and Zanjani (Windfuhr, 2012).…”

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“…Due to mass migration, it is challenging to determine all of the specific Iranian territories where the Azeri minority speakers live. However, the majority of these speakers live in northwestern Iran (Moradi, 2019;Rezaei et al, 2017).…”

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“…In the third component (C3-ST), statements related to the status of language varieties according to the government and in the education system. As scholars assert, status of a language variety according to the government (e.g., see Hassanpour, 1991Hassanpour, , 1993Hassanpour, , 2000, its use in the education system (e.g., see Adger et al, 1993;Adger & Christian, 2007;Elling, 2013) and social media (e.g., see Moradi, 2019;Rezaei et al, 2017;Saleh, 2013) combine to create a controversial and complicated issue. These challenges more likely add to the complexities of language identification.…”

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Language Identification in Iran

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For many years scholars have endeavoured to define what a language is and address how it is different from other types of language varieties such as dialect and accent. Some studies identify language varieties based on their structural similarity, focusing on the lexical similarity, and the phonological, morphological and syntactic properties. Others adopt a functional approach and focus on the degree to which speakers of language varieties "…can understand each other based on knowledge of their own language variety without needing to learn the other language variety, at a functional level" (Eberhard et al., 2021, p.1). Some studies address language identification issues following an ethnographic approach. These studies investigate language as a communicative behavior used by members of a particular culture (Hymes, 1989). Finally, studies which adopt a folk linguistic approach to language underline the linguistic perspectives of folk (non-specialists).Available studies in the field of Iranian linguistics adopt a predominantly structural approach to identify different types of language varieties. Given this imbalance in the literature, this dissertation chronicles the development of a measurement tool in the context of an exploratory mixed methods research project. Based on available literature, initial qualitative study results and an expert panel's views, I developed a sociolinguistic questionnaire. Following rigorous steps in questionnaire validation (Hinkin, 1998), I validated this questionnaire with 5 components and 21 statements. To treat folk perspectives as meaningful in their own right alongside the perspectives of scholars, this questionnaire investigated the linguistic perspectives of participants from a crosssection of speech communities in Iran. The questionnaire further identified the parameters associated with these perspectives in defining and differentiating different types of language III | P a g e varieties. Results indicated that parameters including language variety status, extent of mutual intelligibility and shared words between language varieties, and standardized writing systems were the parameters which statistically significantly influenced Iranian folk perspectives. Perspectives regarding the relevance of urban vs. rural geography and number of speakers were heterogeneous.Results further showed that in language identification, the participants' education, prior formal knowledge of linguistics, and mother tongue predicted 53% of the variation in their linguistic perspectives among the sample population.

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Exploring Azerbaijani Speaking Parents’ Linguistic Practices and Ideologies in Ardebil, Iran

Jafari

2019

The Sociolinguistics of Iran’s Languages at Home and Abroad

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Attitude towards Azeri language in Iran: a large-scale survey research

Cited by 18 publications

References 18 publications

Examining family language policy through realist social theory

Examining family language policy through realist social theory

Language Identification in Iran

Exploring Azerbaijani Speaking Parents’ Linguistic Practices and Ideologies in Ardebil, Iran

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