Reza Ghafar Samar
List of John Benjamins publications in which Reza Ghafar Samar is involved.
Articles
2023 Metaphorical framing in news: How liberals and conservatives talk Pragmatics and Society 14:4, pp. 638–655 | Article
This study investigates metaphorical framing in political language. In particular, we describe dominant metaphoric frames which are used by the conservative and liberal media in the US when debating over the different aspects of the socio-political issues. The data for this study have been… read more
2023 The neural correlates of second language syntax: Implicit and explicit instruction Journal of Second Language Studies 6:1, pp. 146–182 | Article
An important dimension that characterizes the contextual differences in second language acquisition (SLA) is the degree to which instruction is implicit or explicit. However, whether these differences in context play a role in determining the neural activity to process L2 grammar has not been… read more
2017 The future of ‘future’: A Persian perspective on grammaticalization of future marking Asia-Pacific Language Variation 3:2, pp. 130–159 | Article
Bybee et al. (1994) claimed that grammatical-types like past and future have similar paths of development cross-linguistically. Following another line of research, Poplack (2011), Poplack and Tagliamonte (2000) and Walker et al. (2004) explored the grammaticalization of periphrastic ‘go-future’… read more