Globalizing and Extinction of Local Languages (The case of Sahne city, Kermanshah province)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant professor of sociology, Razi University

2 M.A of sociology

3 Associate professor of sociology

10.22059/ijsp.2022.90395

Abstract

The central issue of the present paper is the study of the causes of the mother tongue decline in the Sahne city in Kermanshah province. The issue of language is beyond the dialect of people and is refer to the form of life and the matter of macroeconomic and political relations. From this perspective, the form of life and the language associated with it explain the praxis of the members of the society. The appropriate method of examining the problem should be able to analyze the justification of agents to their situation, that is why Grounded Theory is chosen as the method of this research and data analysis is taken from abduction reasoning.
The results of the analysis introduced the categories of globalizing, modernizing, de-use of language, economic necessity and the government as the most important factors of local language fading. In this essay the meaning of globalization is the globalizing of special type of economic relation that explain other categories role in the process of fading of languages.

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Journal of Social Problems of Iran
Volume 13, Issue 1
September 2022
Pages 43-68

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