A sociolinguistic study of the geeky rationalist persona
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2023-08-14
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Ghaem, Sayed
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The present study uses a corpus of recorded dialogues among Iranian Persian speakers to analyze the features that contribute to the construction of the geeky rationalist persona as identified in the online community of Persian speakers of Iran. The present research is situated within the third-wave sociolinguistic view of variation. In this view, of central importance, are indexicality and performativity which depending on ideological change, lead to linguistic variation This study seeks to explore the accommodation or oppositional stance of the geeky rationalist and its performances among believers and non-believers. In particular, this research investigates the strategies in vowel duration and use of English borrowed words by which the geeky rationalist attempts to find belonging among believers or signal his ideological opposition in a theocracy. The most obvious finding of this study is that vowel duration was higher when the geeky rationalist was talking to believers as opposed to non-believers. Second, the use of English-borrowed words was more frequent among believers compared to non-believers.
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sociolinguistics