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"A Study of Gender Differences in Media Use, Identity and Lifestyle Relationship among Youth in Shiraz Shoeleh Bahrani E-mail: sholehbahrani@gmail.
com The purpose of the present article is to study gender differences in media use, social identity and lifestyle relationship among youth in shiraz.
com This article studies the status of Persian language and literature during Safavid age emphasizing on social functions of language and expressing the existence of official and national languages throughout pre-modern ages.
Referring to the firsthand resources of Safavid age, this article includes two parts: In the first part, after mentioning some instatnces of official and national language during pre-modern ages, we have studied the position of the Persian language in that age as the colloquial language of the majority of Iranian people, as the formal language of the governance and documents of Safavid government, as the educational language of the formal schools, as the writing language of literal and general works and as the language of normal calligraphy in the society.
Therefore objecting the precise recognizing the Persian literature and language at the Safavid age, it has been suggested to perform scientific research devoid of value orientation and based on reference to the firsthand documents and works of that time rather than following the general formed viewpoint.
This article inspired by the theoretical framework of Edward Said’s Orientalism, examines the representation of Iranian culture and identity in two western generations of Iranologists by application of content analysis and comparative method of research."