Reza Arab
List of John Benjamins publications in which Reza Arab is involved.
Articles
2022 Cultural semantics of the ‘salt’ word in Persian International Journal of Language and Culture 9:1, pp. 119–150 | Article
This article explicates the cultural conceptualizations of the word for salt (namak) in Persian. The concept of namak reveals an important aspect of Persian sociality, hospitality, mutual respect, and playfulness. For instance, a person’s face or words can be perceived to ‘have salt’, or one’s… read more
2020 Academic vocabulary and collocations used in language teaching and applied linguistics textbooks: A corpus-based approach Terminology 26:1, pp. 82–107 | Article
Somewhere between technical and general vocabulary are located those words which are used in formal academic contexts with a high frequency across scientific disciplines (Farrell 1990). These are referred to as academic vocabulary. Recent findings do not support the adequacy of a single academic… read more