Masoumeh Diyanati
List of John Benjamins publications in which Masoumeh Diyanati is involved.
Articles
2025 Deictic shifts and re-contextualization in translation: A case study of English and Persian parallel texts Pragmatics and Society 16:5, pp. 748–771 | Article
This study investigates the challenges of translating English demonstratives into Persian, with a focus on deictic shifts and their discourse-pragmatic implications. It aims to outline the recontextualization that deictic terms undergo during translation and the role of discourse-pragmatic… read more
2022 Conceptual blending in entrenched Persian noun-noun nominal compounds: The case of āb -noun compounds Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:2, pp. 297–322 | Article
The current paper offers an analysis of a set of 27 entrenched endocentric, exocentric, and copulative āb (water)-noun nominal compounds in Persian with both right- and left-headed compounds, based on the network model of conceptual blending theory. Given that an emergent meaning is involved in… read more