Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi
Biographic Data
| ID | 211504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seyed Hadi |
| FAMILY NAME | Mirvahedi |
| SIGNATURE | MIRVAHEDI S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4320-2481 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A chronotopic-scalar approach to family language policy research: The case of Azerbaijanis in Iran
Family Discourse
Discourse scholarship has analyzed discourse as both language‐in‐use and systems of beliefs, values, and ideologies. Accordingly, we define family discourse as a broad field of study that examines both daily family interactions among family members and systems of values and beliefs that ideologically rule the world in which families find themselves, ultimately informing family interactions in the home.
The politics of writing in Iran
Contemporary Iran is estimated to be home to 75 languages. Yet, since the rise of Persian nationalism over the past century, the state’s language management and policies have granted the official status to the Persian language and script alone and led to regulations prohibiting any public use of non-Persian script in formal signage. Against this backdrop, this paper investigates ideological and political indexical meanings of the de jure and de f…
Multilingual children’s imaginative worlds and their language use: A chronotopic analysis
Aims and objectives: This study applies the notion of chronotope as an analytical tool to explore the role of globalization, immigration, and transnationalism in shaping multilingual children’s awareness and use of semiotic resources in changing social contexts. Design/methodology/approach: This study is a part of an ongoing collaborative autoethnography (CAE), in which the data come from the second author’s cross-cultural transnational family an…
Towards conceptualizing ‘demographic agency’ in Family Language Policy
This article investigates the success story of language maintenance in Arab families in Iran. Taking Fishman’s (1991) emphasis on micro face-to-face interactions in language maintenance processes as our point of departure, it argues that language maintenance requires that families live in a sociolinguistic milieu in which face-to-face interactions are facilitated by demographic patterns of settlement. Despite unfavorable institutional policies to…
Language ideologies and practices in flux: The case of an Italian-Chinese transnational family
Transnationals constitute one-third of the population of the economically prosperous Singapore. Applying a family language policy (FLP) framework and collaborative autoethnography from data (interviews, videos, and diaries) spanning 13 years, this study delves into the linguistic journey of an Italian-Chinese family with two children born in Singapore. The analysis demonstrates the dynamics of language ideologies, management, and practices, follo…
You are Iranian even if you were born on the moon’: Family language policies of the Iranian diaspora in the UK
With a focus on an under-studied group of immigrants in the UK, this paper examines Iranian families’ language ideologies and practices at home in relation to Persian acquisition and maintenance for their children. Working within a family language policy (FLP) framework, we draw on sociolinguistic data from semi-structured interviews with eighteen mothers to understand how parental beliefs, their everyday language practices and the attempts they …
What can interactional sociolinguistics bring to the family language policy research table? The case of a Malay family in Singapore
This research applies interactional sociolinguistics within a family language policy framework to investigate how social structures and institutional discourses outside the home trickle into daily mundane activities within a Malay-English bilingual family in Singapore. Drawing upon ethnographic interviews and naturally-occurring interactions at home, the study examines the parents’ reported linguistic ideologies and the ‘practiced’ family languag…
Emotions and multilingualism in family language policy: Introduction to the special issue
Aims: The primary aim of this special issue is to advance theoretical and empirical knowledge about the role of emotion in family language policy (FLP). To better capture the complexity and multiplicity of emotion, the issue brings together five articles that reflect on different aspects of emotions in multilingual families and approach the topic from different perspectives, methods, populations, and settings. Approach: In this paper, we first ad…
Family, a racialized space: A phenomenological approach to examining Afghan refugee families’ language policies in Norway
In this paper, I put forward and apply a phenomenological understanding of body and embodied experience to examine refugee families’ identity (trans)formation and language ideologies and practices. In particular, Kitarō Nishida’s (1870–1945) notion of historical body was adopted to investigate how Afghan refugee families’ lived experiences of forced mobility and life in different countries before their settlement in Norway influence their own as …
Family language policy in retrospect: Narratives of success and failure in an Indian–Iranian transnational family
In this study, we investigate family language policy in a transnational family through a collaborative autoethnography. Following the theoretical underpinnings of family language policy (Spolsky in J Multiling Multicult Dev 31:3-11, 2012), we present parental language beliefs, management, and practices in retrospect to shine a light on the long-term impact of the family's language policy on their daughter's linguistic development in heritage lang…
Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia: The Politics of Language and Public Signage
Examining family language policy through realist social theory
In this article, I argue that one social theory that could help us better understand the interaction between social structure and human agency in the context of family language policy (FLP) research is realist social theory. FLP studies in multilingual contexts have shown that home often becomes a site where dominant societal ideologies and discourses of structuring nature compete with individual views and agency, ultimately informing language be…
Siblings' play and language shift to English in a Malay-English bilingual family in Singapore
This research applies language socialization theory within a family language policy framework to investigate how language shift is realized in daily activities within a Malay-English bilingual family in Singapore. Applying Goffman's frame analysis to two excerpts of siblings' play from ninety hours of recordings of family interactions, we illustrate how children as young as four and seven enact adult roles such as teacher and student within the f…
Family language policy in the City of Zanjan: A city for the forlorn Azerbaijani
The study explores language maintenance and shift patterns from a family language policy perspective in Azerbaijani-Farsi bilingual families in the City of Zanjan, Iran. The city is the capital of Zanjan province which is surrounded by Azerbaijani, Kurdish, and Farsi speaking provinces giving it a specific demographic make-up to explore language maintenance and shift processes from a family language policy perspective. Thirteen parents (six fathe…
Sociological realism and language policy analysis: A way forward
Language planning and policy has evolved from considering policy as one of states’ affairs at its early stages to how policy actors exercise their agency to appropriate and enact policy in micro and local contexts. Ethnography of language policy is predominantly used today to explore why policies are enacted in a certain way and not otherwise, shedding light on policy actors’ ideologies and their role in bringing about specific consequences. This…
Medical tourism and its niched impact in Tabriz, Iran: Opportunities and challenges for Iranian Azerbaijanis
Tourism with all its concomitant economic and sociocultural influences across the globe accounts for today’s largest mobilization of people, money, and culture. This study explores how the arrival of medical tourists from the Republic of Azerbaijan in the city of Tabriz in Iran over the last few years has had a niched impact on the linguistic landscape of the city. Drawing upon theoretical developments within the sociolinguistics of globalization…
Linguistic landscaping in Tabriz, Iran: A Discursive Transformation of a Bilingual Space Into a Monolingual Place
A growing body of research highlights the significance of visual language use in public sphere in discursively transforming geographical spaces into places. This symbolic construction of places plays a paramount role in the vitality of minority languages by increasing the prestige of minority languages and thus redressing the balance between minority and majority groups. The present article explores the symbolic construction of Tabriz, a Northwes…
Uniformity and Diversity in Language Policy: Global Perspectives
Uniformity and Diversity in Language Policy: Global Perspectives Catrin Norrby and John Hajek (eds) Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2011, xx + 285 pp. Reviewed by Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi, Victoria Univ
Examining family language policy through realist social theory
In this article, I argue that one social theory that could help us better understand the interaction between social structure and human agency in the context of family language policy (FLP) research is realist social theory. FLP studies in multilingual contexts have shown that home often becomes a site where dominant societal ideologies and discourses of structuring nature compete with individual views and agency, ultimately informing language be…
Family language policy in the City of Zanjan: A city for the forlorn Azerbaijani
The study explores language maintenance and shift patterns from a family language policy perspective in Azerbaijani-Farsi bilingual families in the City of Zanjan, Iran. The city is the capital of Zanjan province which is surrounded by Azerbaijani, Kurdish, and Farsi speaking provinces giving it a specific demographic make-up to explore language maintenance and shift processes from a family language policy perspective. Thirteen parents (six fathe…
You are Iranian even if you were born on the moon’: Family language policies of the Iranian diaspora in the UK
With a focus on an under-studied group of immigrants in the UK, this paper examines Iranian families’ language ideologies and practices at home in relation to Persian acquisition and maintenance for their children. Working within a family language policy (FLP) framework, we draw on sociolinguistic data from semi-structured interviews with eighteen mothers to understand how parental beliefs, their everyday language practices and the attempts they …
Family language policy in retrospect: Narratives of success and failure in an Indian–Iranian transnational family
In this study, we investigate family language policy in a transnational family through a collaborative autoethnography. Following the theoretical underpinnings of family language policy (Spolsky in J Multiling Multicult Dev 31:3-11, 2012), we present parental language beliefs, management, and practices in retrospect to shine a light on the long-term impact of the family's language policy on their daughter's linguistic development in heritage lang…
Siblings' play and language shift to English in a Malay-English bilingual family in Singapore
This research applies language socialization theory within a family language policy framework to investigate how language shift is realized in daily activities within a Malay-English bilingual family in Singapore. Applying Goffman's frame analysis to two excerpts of siblings' play from ninety hours of recordings of family interactions, we illustrate how children as young as four and seven enact adult roles such as teacher and student within the f…
What can interactional sociolinguistics bring to the family language policy research table? The case of a Malay family in Singapore
This research applies interactional sociolinguistics within a family language policy framework to investigate how social structures and institutional discourses outside the home trickle into daily mundane activities within a Malay-English bilingual family in Singapore. Drawing upon ethnographic interviews and naturally-occurring interactions at home, the study examines the parents’ reported linguistic ideologies and the ‘practiced’ family languag…
Family, a racialized space: A phenomenological approach to examining Afghan refugee families’ language policies in Norway
In this paper, I put forward and apply a phenomenological understanding of body and embodied experience to examine refugee families’ identity (trans)formation and language ideologies and practices. In particular, Kitarō Nishida’s (1870–1945) notion of historical body was adopted to investigate how Afghan refugee families’ lived experiences of forced mobility and life in different countries before their settlement in Norway influence their own as …
Sociological realism and language policy analysis: A way forward
Language planning and policy has evolved from considering policy as one of states’ affairs at its early stages to how policy actors exercise their agency to appropriate and enact policy in micro and local contexts. Ethnography of language policy is predominantly used today to explore why policies are enacted in a certain way and not otherwise, shedding light on policy actors’ ideologies and their role in bringing about specific consequences. This…
Towards conceptualizing ‘demographic agency’ in Family Language Policy
This article investigates the success story of language maintenance in Arab families in Iran. Taking Fishman’s (1991) emphasis on micro face-to-face interactions in language maintenance processes as our point of departure, it argues that language maintenance requires that families live in a sociolinguistic milieu in which face-to-face interactions are facilitated by demographic patterns of settlement. Despite unfavorable institutional policies to…
Language ideologies and practices in flux: The case of an Italian-Chinese transnational family
Transnationals constitute one-third of the population of the economically prosperous Singapore. Applying a family language policy (FLP) framework and collaborative autoethnography from data (interviews, videos, and diaries) spanning 13 years, this study delves into the linguistic journey of an Italian-Chinese family with two children born in Singapore. The analysis demonstrates the dynamics of language ideologies, management, and practices, follo…
Medical tourism and its niched impact in Tabriz, Iran: Opportunities and challenges for Iranian Azerbaijanis
Tourism with all its concomitant economic and sociocultural influences across the globe accounts for today’s largest mobilization of people, money, and culture. This study explores how the arrival of medical tourists from the Republic of Azerbaijan in the city of Tabriz in Iran over the last few years has had a niched impact on the linguistic landscape of the city. Drawing upon theoretical developments within the sociolinguistics of globalization…
Uniformity and Diversity in Language Policy: Global Perspectives
Uniformity and Diversity in Language Policy: Global Perspectives Catrin Norrby and John Hajek (eds) Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2011, xx + 285 pp. Reviewed by Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi, Victoria Univ
Linguistic landscaping in Tabriz, Iran: A Discursive Transformation of a Bilingual Space Into a Monolingual Place
A growing body of research highlights the significance of visual language use in public sphere in discursively transforming geographical spaces into places. This symbolic construction of places plays a paramount role in the vitality of minority languages by increasing the prestige of minority languages and thus redressing the balance between minority and majority groups. The present article explores the symbolic construction of Tabriz, a Northwes…
Family language policy in the City of Zanjan: A city for the forlorn Azerbaijani
The study explores language maintenance and shift patterns from a family language policy perspective in Azerbaijani-Farsi bilingual families in the City of Zanjan, Iran. The city is the capital of Zanjan province which is surrounded by Azerbaijani, Kurdish, and Farsi speaking provinces giving it a specific demographic make-up to explore language maintenance and shift processes from a family language policy perspective. Thirteen parents (six fathe…
Sociological realism and language policy analysis: A way forward
Language planning and policy has evolved from considering policy as one of states’ affairs at its early stages to how policy actors exercise their agency to appropriate and enact policy in micro and local contexts. Ethnography of language policy is predominantly used today to explore why policies are enacted in a certain way and not otherwise, shedding light on policy actors’ ideologies and their role in bringing about specific consequences. This…
Medical tourism and its niched impact in Tabriz, Iran: Opportunities and challenges for Iranian Azerbaijanis
Tourism with all its concomitant economic and sociocultural influences across the globe accounts for today’s largest mobilization of people, money, and culture. This study explores how the arrival of medical tourists from the Republic of Azerbaijan in the city of Tabriz in Iran over the last few years has had a niched impact on the linguistic landscape of the city. Drawing upon theoretical developments within the sociolinguistics of globalization…
Siblings' play and language shift to English in a Malay-English bilingual family in Singapore
This research applies language socialization theory within a family language policy framework to investigate how language shift is realized in daily activities within a Malay-English bilingual family in Singapore. Applying Goffman's frame analysis to two excerpts of siblings' play from ninety hours of recordings of family interactions, we illustrate how children as young as four and seven enact adult roles such as teacher and student within the f…
Examining family language policy through realist social theory
In this article, I argue that one social theory that could help us better understand the interaction between social structure and human agency in the context of family language policy (FLP) research is realist social theory. FLP studies in multilingual contexts have shown that home often becomes a site where dominant societal ideologies and discourses of structuring nature compete with individual views and agency, ultimately informing language be…
Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia: The Politics of Language and Public Signage
Emotions and multilingualism in family language policy: Introduction to the special issue
Aims: The primary aim of this special issue is to advance theoretical and empirical knowledge about the role of emotion in family language policy (FLP). To better capture the complexity and multiplicity of emotion, the issue brings together five articles that reflect on different aspects of emotions in multilingual families and approach the topic from different perspectives, methods, populations, and settings. Approach: In this paper, we first ad…
Family, a racialized space: A phenomenological approach to examining Afghan refugee families’ language policies in Norway
In this paper, I put forward and apply a phenomenological understanding of body and embodied experience to examine refugee families’ identity (trans)formation and language ideologies and practices. In particular, Kitarō Nishida’s (1870–1945) notion of historical body was adopted to investigate how Afghan refugee families’ lived experiences of forced mobility and life in different countries before their settlement in Norway influence their own as …
Family language policy in retrospect: Narratives of success and failure in an Indian–Iranian transnational family
In this study, we investigate family language policy in a transnational family through a collaborative autoethnography. Following the theoretical underpinnings of family language policy (Spolsky in J Multiling Multicult Dev 31:3-11, 2012), we present parental language beliefs, management, and practices in retrospect to shine a light on the long-term impact of the family's language policy on their daughter's linguistic development in heritage lang…
Multilingual children’s imaginative worlds and their language use: A chronotopic analysis
Aims and objectives: This study applies the notion of chronotope as an analytical tool to explore the role of globalization, immigration, and transnationalism in shaping multilingual children’s awareness and use of semiotic resources in changing social contexts. Design/methodology/approach: This study is a part of an ongoing collaborative autoethnography (CAE), in which the data come from the second author’s cross-cultural transnational family an…
Towards conceptualizing ‘demographic agency’ in Family Language Policy
This article investigates the success story of language maintenance in Arab families in Iran. Taking Fishman’s (1991) emphasis on micro face-to-face interactions in language maintenance processes as our point of departure, it argues that language maintenance requires that families live in a sociolinguistic milieu in which face-to-face interactions are facilitated by demographic patterns of settlement. Despite unfavorable institutional policies to…
Language ideologies and practices in flux: The case of an Italian-Chinese transnational family
Transnationals constitute one-third of the population of the economically prosperous Singapore. Applying a family language policy (FLP) framework and collaborative autoethnography from data (interviews, videos, and diaries) spanning 13 years, this study delves into the linguistic journey of an Italian-Chinese family with two children born in Singapore. The analysis demonstrates the dynamics of language ideologies, management, and practices, follo…
You are Iranian even if you were born on the moon’: Family language policies of the Iranian diaspora in the UK
With a focus on an under-studied group of immigrants in the UK, this paper examines Iranian families’ language ideologies and practices at home in relation to Persian acquisition and maintenance for their children. Working within a family language policy (FLP) framework, we draw on sociolinguistic data from semi-structured interviews with eighteen mothers to understand how parental beliefs, their everyday language practices and the attempts they …
What can interactional sociolinguistics bring to the family language policy research table? The case of a Malay family in Singapore
This research applies interactional sociolinguistics within a family language policy framework to investigate how social structures and institutional discourses outside the home trickle into daily mundane activities within a Malay-English bilingual family in Singapore. Drawing upon ethnographic interviews and naturally-occurring interactions at home, the study examines the parents’ reported linguistic ideologies and the ‘practiced’ family languag…
Family Discourse
Discourse scholarship has analyzed discourse as both language‐in‐use and systems of beliefs, values, and ideologies. Accordingly, we define family discourse as a broad field of study that examines both daily family interactions among family members and systems of values and beliefs that ideologically rule the world in which families find themselves, ultimately informing family interactions in the home.
The politics of writing in Iran
Contemporary Iran is estimated to be home to 75 languages. Yet, since the rise of Persian nationalism over the past century, the state’s language management and policies have granted the official status to the Persian language and script alone and led to regulations prohibiting any public use of non-Persian script in formal signage. Against this backdrop, this paper investigates ideological and political indexical meanings of the de jure and de f…
A chronotopic-scalar approach to family language policy research: The case of Azerbaijanis in Iran
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