Amir Sheikhan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Amir Sheikhan is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0155-0640 | E‑ISSN 1833‑7139
Articles
2024 “I hope this is your last sorrow”: Condolence strategies in colloquial Persian Pragmatics and Society 15:2, pp. 215–245 | Article
The objective of the present study is to examine condolence strategies and the sociocultural norms underlying the realisation of the speech act of condolence in Persian. To achieve this, a three-layered data collection methodology including two focus group interviews (FGIs), field notes, and a… read more
2023 Epistemics and conversational humour in intercultural first conversations The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts, Linares Bernabéu, Esther (ed.), pp. 110–132 | Chapter
In this paper, we examine conversational humour in intercultural initial interactions, in which participants not only do not know each other, but also come from different cultural backgrounds, through the lens of epistemics. Our analysis examines episodes of conversational humour identified in… read more
2019 Pragmatic functions of ‘sort of’ in Persian: A vague language perspective Vagueness and Elasticity of 'Sort of' in TV Discussion Discourse in the Asian Pacific, Parvaresh, Vahid and Grace Zhang (eds.), pp. 86–110 | Article
It goes without saying that as a pragmatic phenomenon, vagueness has over the past few years been a topic of extensive research. However, a huge gap still exists when it comes to the investigation of how vagueness is expressed across different languages and cultures. In the present study, we… read more