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Assessment of Iran’s Language Planning: Results

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Iran’s Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations

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In the following chapter, I will categorize and then analyze the data. This will allow me to assess the flexibility of Persian morphology in coining abbreviated forms as well as the relative productivity of each of abbreviation method used in English and Persian. This chapter examines the outcomes of the official plan by the highest authority for the Persian language policy in Iran, the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, to confront English abbreviated forms borrowed into Persian. The quantitatively and qualitatively limited capacity of the Persian language in forming abbreviated forms makes the implementation of the current plan very challenging. The results of this study provide evidence-based material that should be considered in the context of language and/or terminology planning, technical writing, teaching and translation.

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Akbari, F. (2020). Assessment of Iran’s Language Planning: Results. In: Iran’s Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations. SpringerBriefs in Linguistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35383-4_5

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