Abolfazl Khodamoradi; Mojtaba Maghsoudi
Abstract
Due to bilingualism and interaction among languages, all languages experience changes at different levels as a result of these language contacts. One of these levels is lexicon which has become a source of concern for policy makers and language planners more than the other language levels. Therefore, ...
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Due to bilingualism and interaction among languages, all languages experience changes at different levels as a result of these language contacts. One of these levels is lexicon which has become a source of concern for policy makers and language planners more than the other language levels. Therefore, this qualitative study was conducted to investigate the plan of replacing the loanwords in high school textbooks with the proposed terms by Academy of Persian Language and Literature. To this end, in a structured interview, 126 participants, including high school students, teachers, college students, and linguists were required to evaluate the necessity of implementing the plan, justify its success or failure, and propose suggestions for increasing its efficiency. The results of this study indicated that the vast majority of participants (97%) did not agree with the implementation of the plan. The reasons they gave for their disagreement were confusion in the audience, lack of coordination in the use of proposed terms in educational settings, and the international nature of technical terms. They also deemed the plan unsuccessful justifying that the audience would not use the new terms in their daily communication and that scientific terms are international in nature. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, while diligently trying to preserve the structure of Persian as the language of science, should reformulate the quality and quantity of the plan through modifying the principles and criteria for selecting technical terms.
Ghasem Modarresi
Abstract
To date, some research has been carried out on Persian neologisms from linguistics, linguistic typology or sociolinguistics perspectives; however, research from a psycholinguistic perspective offers new insights into Persian neologisms and their foreign equivalents. Employing the concept of emotioncy ...
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To date, some research has been carried out on Persian neologisms from linguistics, linguistic typology or sociolinguistics perspectives; however, research from a psycholinguistic perspective offers new insights into Persian neologisms and their foreign equivalents. Employing the concept of emotioncy (emotioncy+frequency of senses), the present study compares the cultural weight of seven Persian neologisms and their foreign equivalents to discover why the public accept or reject the words, approved by the academy of Persian language and literature. Moreover, the study examines the role of their native language in the application of these words. To this end, 223 participants in the quantitative phase and 61 participants in the qualitative phase of the study were selected from the public based on convenience sampling and data saturation to participate in the study. The study follows a sequential mixed-methods design which consists of qualitative and quantitively phases to collect the relevant data. The results of the t-test show that there is a significant difference between the six pairs in terms of emotioncy. Moreover, the results of One-way ANOVA confirm that there is a significant difference in three of the selected words with respect to the native language of the speakers, including Persian, Kurdish and Turkish in terms of emotioncy. After determining the inter-rater agreement and inter-rater reliability of the data, the qualitative results reveal 16 reasons for the acceptance of the foreign equivalents, such as positive association, beautiful-sounding words and high frequency. Also, eight reasons for the non-acceptance of the Persian neologisms are identified like negative association, hard sounding words and low frequency. Indeed, to promote the acceptance and application of neologisms, the academy of Persian language and literature should take not only linguistic but also psycho-sociolinguistics issues into consideration.
