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Mowlaei Aghblagh, Mahdi; Alempour Rajabi, Saba – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This study examines identity construction and conflict in the case of a woman whose parents replaced the local language with the official language at the home in the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran, where the local language, Azerbaijani, is overshadowed by Persian as the official language of the state. In such contexts, Shifting away from the…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Ethnography, Socialization
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Rezaei, Saeed; Latifi, Ashkan; Nematzadeh, Arash – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This survey research investigated the attitude of Iranian Azeri native speakers towards Azeri language. A questionnaire was developed and its reliability was estimated (r = 0.74) through a piloting phase on 54 Azeri native speakers. The participants, for the main phase of this study, were 400 Azeri native speakers with different social and…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Native Speakers
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Mirshahidi, Shahriar – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Although Article 15 of the Iranian constitution endorses non-Persian Languages, speakers of these minority languages are latently obligated to speak Persian, the majority language, in most social settings. Consequently, these Iranian L2 speakers of Persian give rise to certain attitudes towards their accented speech, particularly from speakers of…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Indo European Languages, Semitic Languages, Language Variation