Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Iran: Essays on Language, Culture, and Society

This book contributes to understandings of linguistic anthropology within the context of the wider Persianate world, covering Iranian language societies in both their homelands, and in the diaspora. It demarcates language ideologies - feelings, beliefs of language, and linguistic forms in their broad terms; semiotic processes - signs and their indexical meanings; affect – emotions, or what sensory perceptions do in society; language socialization and language development; discourse analyses...