خلاصه ماشینی:
"Keywords: Globalization, Standardization, Dialect Leveling, Sociolinguistics, Persian Dialects Received: May 2009; Accepted: February 2010 Introduction When we open our mouth for speaking we must choose a particular language, dialect, style, register, or variety (Wardhaugh, 1989), and by speaking a particular dialect or language, "we reveal who we are, where we grow up, our gender, our station in life, our age, and the group we want to belong to" (Coulmas, 2005, p.
Assuming that the age difference between the old and young people of a given speech community can be equated as a period of time during which variation in the speech of members of different generations are taken as evidence of language change (Labov, 1981; Coulmas, 2005), the researchers collected three spoken language sample corpora from two age cohort groups in each speech community, with the first age cohort including participants of both genders between 13 to 28 years old, and the second group between 55 to 70.
Conclusion The theoretical argumentation and the empirical evidence presented in this paper indicated that the process of globalization and standardization accompanied by the effects of modernization, urbanization, monolingual educational system, and mass media has resulted in the modification of Persian dialects toward the standard norms.
Also the paper arguers that while the effects of globalization on language change and identity have been well documented; it seems to be necessary for sociolinguists to be aware of its effects, and tries to reconsider or redefine some of the basic concepts in sociolinguistics such as speech community according to these new developments."