The Sociolinguistics of Iran's Languages at Home and Abroad The Case of Persian, Azerbaijani, and Kurdish /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Sociolinguistics.; Multilingualism.; Indo-Iranian languages.; Ethnology-Middle East .; Language policy.; Linguistic change.; Indo-Iranian Languages.; Middle Eastern Culture.; Language Policy and Planning.; Language Change.

This book examines the sociolinguistics of some of Iran's languages at home and in the diaspora. The first part of the book examines the politics of minority languages and the presence of hegemonic discourses which favour Persian (Farsi) in Iran, exploring issues such as language maintenance an...