Persian English and Local Resistance: Sociolinguistic Attitudes and Ideological Challenges
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The unique sociolinguistic positioning of Iran and its complex sociopolitical relationship with the West render it a compelling context to explore the potential emergence of a local variety of Persian English. Examining the status of English within the complexities surrounding the politics of foreign language recognition and the intricate role of religion in this context contributes significantly to our understanding of the Expanding Circle. Despite this potential, prior work has yet to initiate an independent discourse on Persian English. Thus, grounded in the World Englishes paradigm, this study aims to synthesize the existing, yet fragmented, scholarly findings on English in Iran from various Sociolinguistic disciplines to enable a comprehensive account of the overarching realities of Persian English at both institutional and grassroots levels. The findings reveal that although top-down policies and bottom-up social realities stand in contradiction, they nonetheless operate in parallel and collectively diminish the visibility of Persian English.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it