Type of Work: MA Thesis

Author: Akbari, Fatemeh.

Title: A Sociolinguistic Study on Persian Proverbs: Suggestions

          for Selecting Proverbs for Teaching Persian to Non-native

          Speakers

          /bæarresi-ye zærbolmæsæl-ha-ye farsi ’æz didgah-e

          jame’ešenasi-ye zæban:pišnæhadi bæraye ’entexab-e

          zærbolmæsæl-ha dær ’amuzeš-e zæban-e farsi be

          qeyr-e farsizæbanan/.

Advisor: Dr. Kourosh Safavi.

University: Allameh Tabataba’i.

Faculty: Persian Literature and Foreign Languages.

Department:  Linguistics and Teaching Persian to Non-Native

                       Speakers.

Date: 2001.

Number of pages: 96.

Language: Persian.

Subjects: Proverbs, Statistics, Samples.

Abstract: The objective of this sociolinguistic study is to provide a strategy for finding the most suitable and frequently used proverbs for materials on teaching Persian for non-native speakers.  Consists of  5 chapters and 3 appendices.  Chapters 1 and 2 discuss the design of the study and review of the literature on theoretical issues such as definitions of proverbs, etc.  Chapter 3 describes semantic differentiation  and the methodology used in the research.  Chapter 4 includes the statistical analyses on the basis of the 20 proverbs understudy in terms of the mean of cultural and sociological values respondents have placed.  Chapter 5, the conclusion, gives samples of the most suitable proverbs from the cultural and social perspective and some proverbs that do not have much social and cultural values.  The appendices comprise the questionnaire, tables of raw data and the frequencies.