A review on the methods of measuring Mutual Intelligibility between Languages and dialects used in two survey

Mirmokri, Manijeh; Karimidoostan, Gholamhossein; Gholami, Vahid; Karimi, Yadegar

A review on the methods of measuring Mutual Intelligibility between Languages and dialects used in two survey

Volume 3, Issue 3 - Serial Number 8
Autumn 2019

Pages 117-136

Critique, Analysis and Aesthetics of Texts

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Manijeh Mirmokri ¹

Gholamhossein Karimidoostan ²

Vahid Gholami ³

Yadegar Karimi ⁴

¹ PhD Candidate of General Linguistics, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran

² Professor, Department of Linguistics, Tehran University, Tehran. Iran

³ Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature, Azad University, Sanandaj Branch, Humanity Faculty, Linguistics Group Sanandaj Iran

⁴ Associate Professor, Department of English Literature and Linguistics, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

Abstract

Mutual intelligibility means that a listener of a language variety understands the speech of a speaker of another language variety without training, linguistic encounter and a conscious intention. This level of understanding is often not symmetrical / reciprocal. Languages that are expected to have inherent intelligibility in a receptive multilingual framework, are closely related languages; This means that speakers of two languages use their own languages to communicate not a lingua franca. The present article is a review of the methods used in the research of Mirmokri et al. (1398) and Mirmokri (1399) that have been done around the criterion of mutual intelligibility. A review of the methods in the mentioned researches shows that they have methodologically followed the principles that are in line with the standards observed in this field. In addition, Mirmokri (1399) research has provided a model for more accurate studies in the task of sentence translation task to examine the comprehensibility of varieties that are less syntactically different.

Keywords

Mutual intelligibility

Measuring methods

function tests

opinion test

receptive multilingualism