Kurdish in Iran
A case of restricted and controlled tolerance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4179101 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaffer Sheyholislami (0000-0002-3425-5592, Carleton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 2012 |
| Issue | 217 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl-2012-0048 |
| OpenAlex | W2330205722 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
It has been claimed that the 1979 revolution in Iran transformed the country in many respects. This article aims to examine the extent to which the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) has deviated, if at all, from the linguicidal policies of the Pahlavi dynasty towards non-Persian languages in Iran. The article finds, in both the monarchical and IRI regimes, a policy of (a) treating multilingualism as a threat to the country's territorial integrity and national unity, (b) restricting the use of non-Persian languages, and (3) promoting the supremacy of Persian as a venue for unifying the ethnically and linguistically heterogeneous body politic. While the continuity in the language policy of the two regimes is prominent, differences will be noted especially in the changing geolinguistic context of the region where Kurdish has achieved the status of an official language in Iraq (since 2005) and has enjoyed some level of tolerance in the linguicidal Turkish state (since 1991). New communication technologies as well as cross-border social and linguistic networking among the Kurds throughout Kurdistan and the world have changed the language environment but not the official policy of "one-nation=one-language". Persianization of non-Persian peoples continues to be the building block of the Islamic regime's language policy
Islam · Islamic republic · Language policy · Linguistics · Monarchy · Multilingualism · Official language · Persian · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turkish · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Turkey's Politics and Society
Introduction to Special Issue - Kurdish
Kurdish fiction
The representation and reconstruction of ethno‐national identity on social media by Kurdish women in Rojhelat, Kurdistan‐Iran
National Colonialism
The Kurds in Iran
Attitude towards Azeri language in Iran
No, we don't mix languages
Examining family language policy through realist social theory
What about Translation? Beyond “Persianization” as the Language Policy in Iran
The Cambridge History of the Kurds
The History of Kurdish and the Development of Literary Kurmanji
İran’da Kürtler ve Kürt Milliyetçiliği
Glottopolitique et autogestion langagière en situation de minoration linguistique
Translation policy
Re-orienting to language users
Family language policy and maintenance of Persian
Towards pluralistic and grassroots national identity
Minority Groups and Communication Apprehension An investigation of Kurdistan
Language dominance and shift among Kalhuri Kurdish speakers in the multilingual context of Iran
It is the hardest to keep
Linguistic landscaping in Tabriz, Iran
The politics of writing in Iran
“English became the bridge between me and the rest of the world”
Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran
Lived language and mobility
Alienated in my hometown
A chronotopic-scalar approach to family language policy research
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Linguistic Genocide of Minority and Mother Tongue Languages
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |