So how lucky Isfahani people are that this stigmatization could not have Iessened the beauty of their accent. It is much appreciated everywhere!
By the way, I wonder how one may consider these posts of you as uninteresting!!! Many idiologies, comments are shared. Fantastic! Thank you both for the posts and for the immediate feedbacks…. Please do keep up the good job and write more….

I truly feel what you are saying; the conversation between my own nephew and my grandma is- linguistically looking- full of metalingual questions cause natije doesn’t seem to understand a lot of words his moms grandma is using! Not that her dialect is old or low-class, but only because it is mostly forgotten!! Thanks to the prestige of the younger generation, of course!

Your post is ,as always, really heartfelt and that picture of Bibi and Majid crowned it! Thank you!

Of course you are right! Both death of a language and globalization of another langauge are motivated by their users, whether they drop in number or grow. But given what Jacoby calls indigenous assessment, those naturally occuring moments in our everyday interactions when we make judgments and assessments about people by their language and specifically their accents…..so why not thinking of people as adopting the strategy of not going against the grain !!! People are judged, identified, and labelled by their languages and accents as representative of their identities. Powerful languages keep up well with technology requirements and modernization,so it is viable. But in case of minor languages,accents and varieties,I think the story is different. They die because societies are advocating a norm which Prof. Piller in her illuminating 2001 article calls one language,one nation, and like it or lump it people are identified and judged against this norm any way…..

Thank you, Shima, for your comment!
You are right! Usually societies try to silence certain minority groups by silencing their language.
I just add one point:
The old Isfahani dialect is disappearing mainly because of the fact that the new generation of Isfahan are exposed to language choices which were not available before, to technologies which were not available before. Besides, younger people/generation have naturally different needs, values, and assumptions compared with their fathers, mothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers and this is why their language tends to be sharply different.
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Language per se is neither just a tool nor just a means of identity. It lends itself to either-or and both. The Dutch and Germans in post-war Australia provide textbook examples of voluntary language shift.

If language becomes closely associated with identity, there are still many different and complex identities to choose from (ancestral vs. aspirational identities; hegemonic vs. non-hegemonic ones etc.) Susan Gal’s classic study of women pioneering language shift from Hungarian to German in Austria provides another textbook example.

Particularly on gender and language shift see some of our resources at http://languageonthemove.com/language-learning-gender-identity

Unfortunately, your approach is bwrong/b and has been demonstrated to be wrong throughout human history. Languages are bNOT/b just tools but are means by which people also express their identity, history, heritage, traditions, songs and so on. People often have strong emotional connections to their languages and the other people who speak them, and so they dont get discarded like we might throw away an old piece of clothing or an old computer that doesnt work any more. Do you actually have a breal/b example where [p]eople have renounced their languages voluntarily throughout history and nothing happened as against the loss of hundreds of languages around the world because people were bforced/b to abandon them. Have a look at athis blog post/a for further discussion.