Self-conscious emotions in virtual communities of iranian migrants: a cross-cultural examination of persian lexicon of shame, guilt, and pride
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Self-conscious emotions, Persian culture, Persian language, Persian diasporic weblogsAbstract
While studies of emotion across different cultures and languages have a long history, the research on self-conscious emotions in Persian culture seems to be in its infancy, especially with regards to the cultural and linguistic construction of these emotions. Hence, the present exploratory study carries out a preliminary analysis of self-conscious emotions of guilt, shame, and pride in Persian culture, and the way they are culturally and linguistically constructed. Using authentic data from the content of a group of Persian diasporic bloggers this work breaks new ground in the analysis of certain emotions in Persian culture, and sheds light on Persian cultural schemata with regard to the construction and manifestation of self-conscious emotions. Using a Grounded Theory Approach, the study runs a cross-cultural and cross-linguistic analysis of these emotions and illustrates how the archaeology of Persian culture affects the construction of these emotions. The discussion also highlights some of the triggers of self-conscious emotions for the Iranian bloggers in the diaspora as posted on their weblogs. The study concludes with some suggestions for further exploration of emotion concepts in Persian.
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