A Vocabulary of Kinship Terms in New West Iranian Dialects

<p>This book is the first of its kind in providing a lexicon of kinship terms prevalent in the Western dialects of Iran with a parallel glossary in English. It engages the dialects and their terminology in the English language to bring to purview how language imitates life particularly in rural settings. Subsequently it gives a glimpse into the irrefutable relation that exists between culture and word usage. In doing so it serves as a cultural manifesto as it pertains to Persian language poetics and applied linguistics and is relevant to linguists cultural scholars Anthropologists and students in Persian language literature and culture and certainly all Iranian languages. </p>