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This book presents a systematic and detailed analysis of Caspian linguistics, contributing new perspectives to Western scholarship. The range of the essays represents a wide array of sub-themes under the rubric of Caspian languages and linguistics, and traces connections between linguistic patterns and sociocultural transformations across Caspian societies. In doing so this work investigates the geographical, lexical, grammatical, and phonological characteristics of Caspian language families, spoken in the south and west of the Caspian Sea region. Engaging with multiple dialects in the region, the book draws upon the complex, multifarious relations that exist between lifestyle and word-usage. It is relevant to linguistics interested in West Asian languages and the various related areas of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, cultural linguistics, and historical linguistics.

This book presents a systematic and detailed analysis of Caspian linguistics, contributing new perspectives to Western scholarship. The range of the essays represents a wide array of sub-themes under the rubric of Caspian languages and linguistics, and traces connections between linguistic patterns and sociocultural transformations across Caspian societies. In doing so this work investigates the geographical, lexical, grammatical, and phonological characteristics of Caspian language families, spoken in the south and west of the Caspian Sea region. Engaging with multiple dialects in the region, the book draws upon the complex, multifarious relations that exist between lifestyle and word-usage. It is relevant to linguistics interested in West Asian languages and the various related areas of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, cultural linguistics, and historical linguistics.

This book contributes to understandings of linguistic anthropology within the context of the wider Persianate world, covering Iranian language societies in both their homelands, and in the diaspora. It demarcates language ideologies - feelings, beliefs of language, and linguistic forms in their broad terms; semiotic processes - signs and their indexical meanings; affect – emotions, or what sensory perceptions do in society; language socialization and language development; discourse analyses; and literacy, secrecy and textuality. Bringing together linguists and anthropologists to chart the far-reaching diaspora of the Iranian community under the rubric of poetics and anthropology, it is a relevant collection for scholars in Near Eastern studies, in areas of languages and linguistics, literature, semiotics, cultural studies, social sciences, and diaspora studies.