Shima Moallemi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Shima Moallemi is involved.
Article
2023 Chapter 6. Multimodal manifestation of ta’ârof in Persian Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written, Jucker, Andreas H., Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 163–183 | Chapter
The present research investigates the multimodal aspect of ta’ârof, a politeness ritual essential in many interpersonal interactions in Persian. We studied the opening sequences of interactions in an Iranian talk show to illustrate how gestures are used to express self-lowering and other-raising… read more