Language, Status, and Power in Iran"... excellent example... significant contribution... an important interdisciplinary work... " -- Middle East Journal "... an important contribution to aspects of Iranian social communication and interpersonal verbal behavior." -- Language By showing the reader the intricacies of face-to-face sociolinguistic interaction, William Beeman provides a key to understanding Iranian social and political life. Beeman's study in cross-cultural linguistics will clearly be a model for the study of different languages and cultures. |
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Contents
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Persian SocioMorphology | 132 |
The SocioSyntax of Iranian Interaction | 170 |
The Aesthetics of Iranian | 202 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 213 |
NOTES | 236 |
INDEX | 245 |
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Page 14 - The report aspect of a message conveys information and is, therefore, synonymous in human communication with the content of the message. It may be about anything that is communicable regardless of whether the particular information is true or false, valid, invalid, or undecidable. The command aspect, on the other hand, refers to what sort of a message it is to be taken as, and, therefore, ultimately to the relationship between the communicants.
Page 66 - refer here to the set of conventions by which a given activity, one already meaningful in terms of some primary framework, is transformed into something patterned on this activity but seen by the participants to be something quite else.
Page 67 - ... c. Cues will be available for establishing when the transformation is to begin and when it is to end, namely, brackets in time, within which and to which the transformation is to be restricted.
Page 43 - ... the Simurgh, neither more nor less. This one was that, and that one this; the like of this hath no one heard in the world. All of them were plunged in amazement, and continued thinking without thought. Since they understood naught of any matter, without speech they made enquiry of that Presence. They besought the disclosure of this deep mystery, and demanded the solution of ' we-ness ' and
Page 37 - Social organization enters into action only to the extent to which it shapes situations in which people act, and to the extent to which it supplies fixed sets of symbols which people use in interpreting their situations.
Page 67 - The signaling of key may be nonverbal, as with a wink, gesture, posture, style of dress, musical accompaniment, but it also commonly involves conventional units of speech too often disregarded in ordinary linguistic analysis, such as English aspiration and vowel length to signal emphasis.
Page 43 - Their ancient deeds and undeeds were cleansed away and annihilated from their bosoms. The Sun of Propinquity shone forth from them ; the souls of all of them were illuminated by its rays. Through the reflection of the faces of these thirty birds (si murgh) of the world they then beheld the countenance of the Simurgh. When they looked, that was the Simurgh : without doubt that Simurgh was those thirty birds (si murgh). All were bewildered with amazement, not knowing whether they were this or that....
Page 64 - In daily life the same persons in the same setting may redefine their interaction as a changed type of scene, say, from formal to informal, serious to festive, or the like.
Page 37 - From the standpoint of symbolic interaction, social organization is a framework inside of which acting units develop their actions. Structural features, such as "culture," "social systems," "social stratification," or "social roles," set conditions for their action but do not determine their action. People- that is, acting units- do not act toward culture, social structure or the like; they act toward situations.
Page 37 - culture," "social systems," "social stratification," or "social roles," set conditions for their action but do not determine their action. People — that is, acting units — do not act toward culture, social structure or the like; they act toward situations.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Language, Status, and Power in Iran Language, Status, and Power in Iran Advances in Semiotics |
| Author | William O. Beeman |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1986 |
| ISBN | 0253113180, 9780253113184 |
| Subjects | › Language Arts & Disciplines / General |
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