Language and Culture in Persian: English 2002

Language and Culture in Persian lies at the intersection of what we ordinarily associate with language learning, standard vocabulary, idiom, grammar, etc. and a set of shared assumptions about the world that we call \culture.] The book is about what readers of Persian know but rarely express. It asks the question: What understandings do readers share that enable them to comprehend skillful writing in the language? Common sense of this sort comes in two ways: (1)explicitly in the form of the alphabet, morphology, syntax, punctuation, and other obvious aspects of writing, and (2) implicitly in the form of a shared set of basic facts and ideas that allows readers to construct the meanings of texts. Language and Culture in Persian is a full course in Persian Lite. It offers sophisticated insights into the language without requiring months of laborious study. The book will interest both general readers and language specialists, especially autodidacts who want to learn about the languages and cultures of the modern Middle East and Central Asia but do not have time for formal language instruction. The type of language and culture awareness the book promotes not only helps one un