Applying Theoretical Approaches of Sociology in Oral History
Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)Mohsen Kazemi 1 , Morteza Nouraei 2 , Reza Shabani Samghabadi 3
1 - Department of History, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, ‎Tehran, Iran‎
2 - Department of History, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran ‎
3 - Department of History, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, ‎Tehran, Iran, ‎m4.rezashabani@gmail.com
Keywords: Linguistics, Anthropology, Oral history, culture studies.&lrm,
Abstract :
Oral history as an interdisciplinary field has made the pragmatics and theoretical functions of other disciplines of humanities, particularly social sciences, being noted in this kind of historiography. There are several approaches for sociological studies; such as linguistics and anthropology. These days linguistics is a totally apprehensive discipline that is in search of constructing and finding deeper signs, meanings and concepts of human, and the thought, behavior, act and sensation of his/her. A human with his unknown labyrinth that anthropology might reveal some (a bit) knowledge of his/her inner and outer world. Oral history as a phenomenon related to human, about human and his/her world; is about to find a way to transfer his/her messages, concepts and narratives that pass through the language. Human owns the language and language as a thought plays its role in the structure of society and human institutions. Human is surrounded by his/her believes, costumes, folklores and the sociocultural institutions. Identifying this human needs a language, meanings, signs and symbols that can attained to some degree through linguistic and anthropological studies. Studying some functions and linguistic concepts beside anthropological ideas and theories can reveal more aspects of oral history. This paper tries represent a way for hesitation on unknown aspects of oral history based on perceptive and explanatory methodology and presenting introductory discussions on linguistics and anthropology.
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