The Handbook of Persian Dialects and Dialectology

This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents can be examined and parsed with the view of understanding better the devices and paths through which language, and cultural cognizance, operate in tandem. As the first book in English to engage Persian dialects and dialectology on a broad and comprehensive scale, it develops an understanding of the paths through which maximization of the expressive power of words exists in Persian under the rubric of cultural conceptualizations. An insightful and all-encompassing resource for analyzing and augmenting knowledge of Persian linguistics, this work presents a thorough and all-encompassing interdisciplinary treatment of Persian.  It is a vital resource for socio- and cultural linguists, as well as anthropologists and Iranists. It is also an excellent reference for historians researching Persian civilization, culture, literature and art.

Alireza Korangy received his Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His field of research is classical Persian and Arabic philology with a special emphasis on poetics, rhetoric, folklore, and linguistics. He has conducted extensive research and published on Iranian and Persian linguistics.  Alireza Korangy currently teaches in the Faculty of Humanities and Civilization Studies at the American University in Beirut. He has previously taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Colorado, and Harvard University.

Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari is a Professor of linguistics and Persian at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran. As an expert in the field of Teaching Persian to Non-Persian Speakers, he is a co-author of the well-known Series Fārsī Bīyāmūzīm (Let's Learn Persian, 2001), and Persian for Dummies (2017) as well as his Tense in Persian (2002), and Essays on Typology of Iranian Languages (2019). His books in press are Kinship Vocabulary in the Iranian Languages (Yerevan University Press), and A Grammar of Lori (with Alireza Korangy, MGL). He has contributed to many edited volumes in linguistics, including Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics (2018) and The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian (2020).