Linguistics
Reza Sahraee; Hossein Bazoubandi; Hamed Mowlaei Kuhbanani
Abstract
In order to strengthen the scientific register of Persian language, word selection for the scientific terms of foreign languages and accurate knowledge of word-formation mechanisms in this register and its capacities are of considerable importance. Few statistical and corpus-based researches have been ...
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In order to strengthen the scientific register of Persian language, word selection for the scientific terms of foreign languages and accurate knowledge of word-formation mechanisms in this register and its capacities are of considerable importance. Few statistical and corpus-based researches have been conducted on the word formation processes of the approved terms of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. One of the fields not comprehensively addressed so far is the field of transportation within its four main fields. Therefore, the present research, using a descriptive-analytic method, is a comparative study of the word-formation processes of the approved terms of the Academy and their English equivalents in the four fields of transportation (intra-city road, marine, rail and air transport) in the first eight books, including 2929 Persian terms and 2929 English terms (5858 words in total). The results show the dominant word-formation processes in the Academy's words in the field of transportation are respectively compounding (11.77%), compound-derivative (6.69%) and derivation (4.06%). Also, less than one percent of the corpus is formed using other word-formation processes. Moreover, 73.36% of words are the result of syntactic structure and 3.14% are used as simple words. By contrast, the dominant word-formation processes of the English equivalents are respectively compound-derivative (39.56%), compounding (32.57%) and derivation (5.87%); Less than 5% of all English words are made by using the processes of abbreviation, clipping and blending. In addition, in English language, 10.03% of the data are syntactic structures and 2.7% of the words are simple words.
Linguistics
somayeh aghababaei; mohammad mahdi zamani; Nematollah Iranzadeh
Abstract
Considering the importance of Persian literary works in linguistic studies and teaching Persian speakers of other languages, it is very important to study the scientific works that have been written to introduce or critique prominent Persian literary works. However, in many cases, these scientific works ...
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Considering the importance of Persian literary works in linguistic studies and teaching Persian speakers of other languages, it is very important to study the scientific works that have been written to introduce or critique prominent Persian literary works. However, in many cases, these scientific works deviate from their purpose, which is to identify important literary works, due to the some problems in using the scientific variety of Persian language. This study considers using of the scientific variety in these works by Moayed Shirazi (1983), Pournamdarian (1989), Zarrinkoob (1999) and Khorramshahi (2001), which were selected as the book of the year of the Islamic Republic in the 1980s and shows how in many cases these scientific works cannot achieve their goal in the appropriate way. This study intends to answer this question: what are the problems in the use of the language of science in Persian literary research. For this purpose, researchers combine aspects of qualitative and quantitative research methods to extract various problems in using the scientific variety of Persian language in these works and show spread of these problems. Study of these authoritative scientific works shows that problems such as semantic deviation, historical deviation, stylistic deviation, extra regularity, quoting literary texts to strengthen the poetic function of language, simile, irony, ambiguous words, verbiage, and value judgment are observed in these works
