University of Isfahan

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Isfahan*

Hatamzadeh-Esfahani, Somayeh & Reza Kazemian 2026 Hair or fist: Framing a movement through visual metaphtonymy

Keywords: metaphor | metonymy | metaphtonymy | visual metaphor | multimodality

Pragmatics and Society | Online First Publication, 26 pp. | article

Ameri, Saeed & Pouria Sadrnia 2025 Examining the interplay between translation students’ grit, self-efficacy and academic achievement

Keywords: grit | self-efficacy | translation students | academic achievement | positive psychology | persévérance | auto-efficacité | étudiants en traduction | réussite académique | psychologie positive

Babel 71:5 pp. 599–621 | article

Diyanati, Masoumeh & Mohammad Amouzadeh 2024 Deictic shifts and re-contextualization in translation: A case study of English and Persian parallel texts

Keywords: deictic shift | translation | english | persian | re-contextualization | (inter)subjectivity

Pragmatics and Society 16:5 pp. 748–771 | article

Afrouz, Mahmoud 2024 Exploring normal vs. service translators’ orientation in rendering realia in The Holy Qur’an

Keywords: The Holy Qur’an | normal translator | service translator | realia | source oriented procedures | target-oriented procedures | Coran | traducteur normal | traducteur de service | realia | procédures orientées vers la langue source | procédures orientées vers la langue cible

FORUM 22:1 pp. 1–25 | article

Abbaszadeh, Elnaz & Ali Dabbagh 2024 “You have no right!”: Conceptualizations of Iranian women in the dialogues and visuals of a local film

Keywords: women representation | cultural conceptualizations | Cultural Linguistics | film analysis | Iranian film | Persian

International Journal of Language and Culture 11:2 pp. 229–261 | article

Basarati, Ali, Hadaegh Rezaei & Mohammad Amouzadeh 2023 The pragmatics of alternative futures in political discourses: Legitimising the politics of preemption in Trump’s discourse on Iran

Keywords: alternative futures | preemption | past-to-present evaluations | modality system | Donald Trump | Iran

Pragmatics 33:4 pp. 505–531 | article | open access

Abbasi, Pyeaam & Maryamossadat Mousavi 2023 “May the path never close”: A Deleuze-Guattarian reading of Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah

Keywords: Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah | Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari | “ontology of becoming” | “striated” and “smooth” spaces | the “State Apparatus” and the “war machine” | “assemblage”

English Text Construction 16:1 pp. 1–29 | article

Diyanati, Masoumeh, Hadaegh Rezaei & Adel Rafiei 2022 Conceptual blending in entrenched Persian noun-noun nominal compounds: The case of āb-noun compounds

Keywords: conceptual blending theory | integration networks | meaning construction | Persian | nominal compounds

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 9:2 pp. 297–322 | article

Kazemian, Reza & Mohammad Amouzadeh 2022 Aspects of væ (‘and’) as a discourse marker in Persian

Keywords: væ discourse marker | DM co-occurrence | Pragmatic functions | Multifunctionality

Pragmatics 32:4 pp. 588–619 | article | open access

Azimdokht, Zoleikha, Adel Rafiei & Jenny Audring 2022 Modelling polysemy and categorial ambiguity in a constructional family: The case of agentive compounds in Persian

Keywords: Construction Morphology | polysemy | compound | partial motivation | sister constructions | second-order schemas | Persian

Constructions and Frames 14:2 pp. 262–300 | article

Afrouz, Mahmoud 2021 Self-edition hypothesis: The case of multiple self-edited versions of modern literary texts

Keywords: self-edition Hypothesis | retranslation-hypothesis | the blind owl | Sadeq Hedayat | Iraj Bashiri | hypothèse d’auto-édition | hypothèse de retraduction | La Chouette Aveugle | Sadeq Hedayat | Iraj Bashiri

FORUM 19:1 pp. 1–23 | article

Farhadi, Samaneh 2021 

Babel 67:1 pp. 118–122 | book review

Mirsafian, Leila, Hossein Pirnajmuddin & Dariush Nejadansari 2021 Estimating literary translators’ earnings penalty: A cultural economics approach to translator studies

Keywords: economics of translation | translators’ earnings penalty | Iranian literary translators | translator studies | cultural economics | psychic income

Target 33:3 pp. 436–463 | article

Varnosfadrani, Azizollah Dabaghi & Mahbube Tavakol 2022 The role of language proficiency, gender, and language dominance in using co-speech gestures to identify referents in narratives by Persian-English bilinguals

Keywords: gesture | speech-gesture coordination | referential identification | EFL context | narrative

Gesture 20:3 pp. 321–353 | article

Saei Dibavar, Sara, Pyeaam Abbasi & Hossein Pirnajmuddin 2020 Dr(e)amatic encounters: The role of embedded narratives in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians

Keywords: J. M. Coetzee | Waiting for the Barbarians | possible worlds theory | Marie-Laure Ryan’s modal system | embedded narratives | F-universe

English Text Construction 13:1 pp. 22–45 | article

Shorofi, Mahboubeh, Mohammad Saleh Sanatifar & Mansoor Tavakoli 2020 The impact of Group Dynamic Assessment on the development of translation bilingual sub-competence: Implications for translator training

Keywords: Group Dynamic Assessment | cumulative approach | Zone of Proximal Development | translation competence | bilingual sub-competence | évaluation dynamique de groupe | approche cumulative | zone proximale de développement | compétence en traduction | sous-compétence bilingue

FORUM 18:2 pp. 197–230 | article

Shooraki, Farah, Hossein Barati & Ahmad Moinzadeh 2020 Assessing writing performance in TOEFL-iBT: A closer look at linguistic and discoursal features

Keywords: Coh-Metrix | independent writing task | integrated writing task | TOEFL-iBT | writing assessment

English Text Construction 13:1 p. 84 | article

Mousavi, S. Hamzeh & Mohammad Amouzadeh 2020 ‘I hear the smell of roses’: Semantic aspects of synaesthetic constructions in Persian

Keywords: synaesthesia | Frame Semantics | senses | Construction Grammar | Persian

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:2 pp. 397–427 | article

Bakhtiar, Mohsen 2020 A cognitive linguistic view of control mechanism in Iranian culture: The case of effat ‘chastity’ in Persian

Keywords: Effat ‘chastity’ | hejâb ‘veiling’ | sexuality, metaphor | Iranian culture | gender segregation | morality

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:2 pp. 465–496 | article

Amouzadeh, Mohammad & Raha Zareifard 2020 Interactional metadiscourse of gender in Persian: The case of conference presentations

Keywords: gender | community of practice | conference presentation | interactional metadiscourse | core and peripheral members | professional identity | academic status

Pragmatics and Society 10:4 pp. 512–537 | article

Dibavar, Sara Saei, Pyeaam Abbasi & Hossein Pirnajmuddin 2019 Closure in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace : A cognitive approach

Keywords: Barbara Dancygier | cognition | J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace | Marie-Laure Ryan | narrative spaces | textual actual world (TAW)

English Text Construction 12:1 pp. 1–28 | article

Afshari, Sajad, Azizollah Dabaghi & Saeed Ketabi 2019 Oral corrective feedback on written errors: Graduated feedback vs. supplemented direct feedback

Keywords: oral corrective feedback | written errors | sociocultural theory | cognitive-interactionist theory | implicit knowledge

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 171:2 pp. 253–279 | article

Zaferanieh, Elaheh, Mansoor Tavakoli & Abbass Eslami Rasekh 2019 Second language pragmatics development through different instructional techniques: Focus on speech act of criticizing

Keywords: consciousness raising instruction | input enhancement instruction | ZPD-sensitive instruction | speech act of criticizing | Discourse Completion Test | Role-play test

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 171:1 pp. 113–141 | article

Moradi Joz, Rasool & Hossein Pirnajmuddin 2018 Benjamin and Borges: Reflections on afterlife and translation

Keywords: Walter Benjamin | Jorge Luis Borges | afterlife | pure language | post-Nietzschean philosophy | deconstructionism | Walter Benjamin | Jorge Luis Borges | la vie après la mort | langue pure | philosophie post-nietzschéenne | déconstructionnisme

Babel 64:1 pp. 63–80 | article

Moradi-Joz, Rasool, Saeed Ketabi & Mansoor Tavakoli 2018 On conductive argumentation: President Trump’s United Nations address on Iran in focus

Keywords: practical argumentation | conductive argumentation (reasoning) | critical discourse analysis (CDA) | Trump | political discourse analysis (PDA)

Journal of Language and Politics 18:1 p. 83 | article

Akbari, Alireza 2018 Translation quality research: A data-driven collection of peer-reviewed journal articles during 2000–2017

Keywords: translation quality research | meta-analyses | theoretical importance | pertinence to empirical and non-empirical research | readership size | geographical coverage | recherche sur la qualité des traductions | méta-analyses | importance théorique | pertinence de la recherche empirique et non empirique | taille du lectorat | couverture géographique

Babel 64:4 pp. 548–578 | article

Jafari, Sakineh, Saeed Ketabi & Mansoor Tavakoli 2017 Advanced and intermediate EFL learners’ perceptions and practices of autonomous learning

Keywords: autonomous activities | decision making ability | learner autonomy | learner responsibility

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 168:1 pp. 70–90 | article

Parvaresh, Vahid 2013 Review of Linguistic relativities: Language diversity and modern thought by John Leavitt (2011)

Studies in Language 37:1 pp. 226–233 | book review

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.