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In this chapter, I focus on the ways Iranians in indigenous and diasporic contexts draw on their bilingual resources and ideologies in order to (co-)construct their identities and negotiate their social positionings relative to the notions of language and identity. Specifically, I provide a comparative study of Farsi-English bilingual speakers’ metapragmatic commentary in Iran and the U.S. to investigate how mobility across time and space impacts their identities as well as their bilingual practices and language-ideological discourses. The findings suggest that Farsi-English code-switching serves as an act of differentiation in the indigenous context of Iran and an act of solidarity in the diasporic context of the U.S.
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Appendix: Transcription Conventions
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emphatic stress
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intervening material has been omitted
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brief pause
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laughter
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transcriber comment
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English translation within brackets is added by the author for clarification
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speaker overlap
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contiguous utterances
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utterance signaling more to come
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utterance final intonation
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lengthening of preceding sound
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increased volume
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rising intonation
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falling intonation
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switch to English
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Sanei, T. (2019). Investigating Multilingual Identities and Ideologies among Iranian Communities in Contexts of Mobility. In: Mirvahedi, S. (eds) The Sociolinguistics of Iran’s Languages at Home and Abroad. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19605-9_9
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