Mostafa Morady Moghaddam
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mostafa Morady Moghaddam is involved.
2026 “Your account has been compromised”: Exploring emotional triggers in scam emails Internet Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
Scam emails pose a significant threat to online security, exploiting individuals’ vulnerabilities through emotional manipulation. This study explores emotional triggers in a corpus of scam emails (n = 371) compiled from ten genuine email accounts over a period of five years (2018–2023). Using… read more
2024 Examining teachers’ rhetorical choices: Disagreement styles in teacher-student interactions Language and Dialogue 14:3, pp. 428–451 | Article
This study examines the role of disaffiliative reactions, specifically disagreement, in teacher-student interactions. Disagreement is often seen as confrontational and disruptive, but this research investigates whether it is a dispreferred act in these interactions. By analyzing teacher-student… read more
2022 Review of Reynolds & Teng (2021): Innovative Approaches in Teaching English Writing to Chinese Speakers Spelling Acquisition in Cross-linguistic Settings, Russak, Susie and Elena Zaretsky (eds.), pp. 126–132 | Review
2022 Metapragmatics in indirect reports: The degree of reflexivity Pragmatics 32:3, pp. 381–402 | Article
This study attempts to describe how metapragmatic devices can exert change in indirect reporting. This was achieved through the analysis of naturally occurring indirect reports during interaction. Specifically, indirect reports were extracted from a series of expert talks (≈800 minutes)… read more
2020 ‘Die’ and its different situation-bound utterances in Persian Pragmatics & Cognition 27:2, pp. 408–431 | Article
In this paper, using the tenets of Situation-Bound Utterances (SBUs) (Kecskes 2000, 2010) and referring to Pragmatic Act Theory (PAT) (Mey 2001), the verb mordan (‘to die’ in English), and its different realisations are analysed among Persian speakers. Through the analysis of authentic talk in… read more
2019 Appraising and reappraising of compliments and the provision of responses: Automatic and non-automatic reactions Pragmatics 29:3, pp. 410–435 | Article
The role of cognitive processes in compliment-response (CR) exchanges is an underdeveloped area of investigation. This article aims to probe whether Persian speakers’ responses to compliments change in line with their appraisals of the situation. To achieve this aim, Persian speakers’ responses… read more
2017 Politeness at the extremes: Iranian women’s insincere responses to compliments Language and Dialogue 7:3, pp. 413–431 | Article
This study addresses the issue of politeness in compliment responses (CRs) among Iranian female university students. Using naturally occurring talk, 235 compliment-response exchanges were recorded during focus group interviews. The findings revealed that to mitigate impoliteness the interviewees… read more