Semantics of Hawrami Kinship Terms | ||
| The International Journal of Humanities | ||
| Article 1, Volume 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1-21 PDF (195.08 K) | ||
| Authors | ||
| Bistoon Abbasi; Amer Gheitury; Kerstin Kazzazi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present study aims at exploring kinship terms and the different ways in which they are used to refer to and address relatives and non-relatives in Hawrami, an Iranian language spoken in Paveh, a border city in Kermanshah province. The relevant linguistic and cultural data are obtained primarily by one of the researchers as a native speaker of the dialect and through field works and interviews with native speakers. In addition to analyzing consanguineal and affinal terms, and words for step-relatives, some space is also devoted to discuss pragmatic aspects of the words, particularly in contexts where the terms are used to address relatives as well as non-relatives. Considering the fact that the authors came across no serious study of Hawrami kinship terminology, the present study might be one of the first preliminary steps to a better understanding of the cultural and anthropological aspects of this Iranian dialect. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| kinship terms; Consanguineal; Affinal; Hawrami; Paveh | ||
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