The People’s Attitude towards the Language Use in the Local Media Broadcast: A Case Study of Azerbaijani language in Tabriz

The public broadcast media, to which the television (TV) and radio belong, are
arguably the most significant but a controversial topic discussed in linguistic
literature (Sherrington 1973; Weisse 1985; Madianou 2005; Lysaght 2009;
Sheyholislami 2010).
The spread of information through public media engages a vast majority of people
and certain communities in a meaningful dialogue, as well (Sherrington, 1975;
Lysaght, 2009). Lysaght (2009) suggests that national television has a key role in
exploring central beliefs and popular culture, such that the language used in
broadcasting has huge symbolic importance