Esmat Babaii
List of John Benjamins publications in which Esmat Babaii is involved.
Articles
2025 The knowledge lost in information: Questionable research practices from the perspective of a manuscript reviewer Questionable Research Practices in Applied Linguistics, Plonsky, Luke (ed.), pp. 409–422 | Article
The current position paper is a brief account of the pitfalls I have found in the research manuscripts I have reviewed over a period of twenty years. As a review panel member of several academic journals, I encountered several problems in the submissions I have been asked to review, both minor… read more
2024 Representation of women in English and Persian proverbs: A Cultural-Linguistic perspective Pragmatics and Society 15:6, pp. 929–951 | Article
The present study aims to investigate the portrayal of women in English and Persian proverbs using the multidisciplinary field of Cultural Linguistics as an alternative to critical discourse analysis. Utilizing a corpus analysis approach for Cultural Linguistics (Jensen 2017), 124 English and… read more
2017 The question of power in language classes from a critical discourse analysis perspective: Once a student, always a student? Pragmatics and Society 8:4, pp. 542–570 | Article
Informed by the major tenets of critical discourse analysis, the present study attempted to expose the chasm between veteran English teachers enjoying a nation-wide popularity and those linguistically talented novices achieving locally mediocre fame in the Iranian EFL context. In so doing, two… read more