Hooshyar Rashidi; Adel Dastgoshadeh; Mohammad Sedigh Zahedi
Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between Persian speakers' language identity and their use of Persian (as a first or second language) on the one hand and their applying the linguistic criteria of standard Persian writing in Telegram chats on the other hand. A group of 115 university students ...
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This study investigated the relationship between Persian speakers' language identity and their use of Persian (as a first or second language) on the one hand and their applying the linguistic criteria of standard Persian writing in Telegram chats on the other hand. A group of 115 university students who were users of Telegram was selected through convenience sampling. First, their language identity was measured using Rezaei, Khatib, and Baleghizadeh's (2014) language identity questionnaire. Then, they were divided into two groups as follows. One group included speakers of Persian as a first language, while the other group included speakers of Persian as a second language. Next, each group was further subdivided into two groups with high and low language identities. Therefore, ultimately there were four groups, each consisting of 25 participants. Finally, a sample of the Telegram chats in each group was rated and analyzed based on the linguistic criteria of standard Persian writing. The results showed that language identity went hand in hand with adherence to linguistic criteria in the first-language group but not in the second-language group. With regard to the effect of language use (as a first or second language), the results indicated that, with comparable language identity, the second-language groups turned out to be more committed to the criteria of standard Persian writing.
