Beschreibung:
Korangy and Sharifian's groundbreaking book offers the first in-depth study into cultural linguistics for the Persian language. The book highlights a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents, wherever spoken, can be examined.
Introduction 1. A cultural linguistic survey of nuances in translation 2. Self-abasement and other-elevating through Persian address forms and self-reference terms 3. Ta'arof - the key to Iranian social behavior 4. Inflectional morphemes in Persian address terms: a sociolinguistic analysis 5. Compliment response strategies used by Iranian Persian speakers: new patterns and new cultural schema 6. Violence in Persian 7. Conceptualizations of sadness in Persian 8. Cultural conceptualizations of animal expressions in Persian 9. Cultural conceptualizations of sharm (shame) in Persian 10. Not-being in the presence of being: conceptualizations of death in Rumi's Mathnavi 11. Cultural conceptualizations of compliments in Persian