Reza Kazemian
Biographic Data
| ID | 111745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reza Kazemian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reza |
| FAMILY NAME | Kazemian |
| SIGNATURE | KAZEMIAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Isfahan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1437-0243 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The metaphorical construction of ‘people’ in the Iranian political discourse: A cognitive critical metaphor analysis
The present paper seeks to examine the metaphorical structures that conceptualise people and their status and role in the discourse of the Iranian Supreme Leader. Drawing upon critical cognitive metaphor analysis (Charteris-Black, 2004) and the theory of agency in language (Duranti, 2004), we approached 300 speeches of the Iranian Supreme Leader from 1997 to 2023 to figure out how the agency of people in different areas is controlled and constric…
Hair or fist: Framing a movement through visual metaphtonymy
In 2022, a protest movement in Iran was triggered by the death of a woman who had been arrested for not covering her hair in the way required by the government. The movement spread but was then squashed. Media coverage was intense and showed many images employing visual metaphors and metonymies, often in combination. While there are now many studies analyzing multimodal metaphors in political contexts, no study has, yet, dealt with the metaphors …
The interface of prosody and pragmatics: A phono-pragmatic analysis of bebin ('look') in Persian
Beyond sentence grammar: Persian directives in interaction
Never have they had any chance to spread their wings ’: The construction of agency and socio-gender identity of Iranian women
This paper intends to study how the agency and social-gender identity of Iranian women are constructed through social-cultural-political structures. To this end, we conducted 35 semi-structured interviews with Iranian citizens, both men and women in the context of the Zan-Zendegi-Azadi (Women-Life-Freedom) movement in Iran. This study is grounded upon the main tenets of Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA), seeking to give voice to the oppressed and…
Unraveling the force dynamics in conceptual metaphors of Covid-19: A multilevel analysis
So far, cognitive linguistics studies on COVID-19 have focused mainly on conceptual metaphors, paying scant attention to other construal operations such as force dynamics (FD). Adopting Kövecses’s (2020, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio ) hybrid account of conceptual metaphor and FD, this study attempts to outline an enriched cognitive view of the figurative conceptualization of illness. It also aims to answer the question: Can FD and…
Covid-19 in English and Persian: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Illness Metaphors across Languages
This article investigates conceptual metaphors for Covid-19 in two languages, American English and Persian, using two approaches, namely Lakoff & Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory and Kövecses’s approach to universal metaphors. The data for the analysis were drawn from a large corpus of Covid-19 metaphors in American English and a smaller corpus extracted from major news websites in Persian. The analysis focuses on examining the source domains…
Aspects of væ (‘and’) as a discourse marker in Persian
This study investigates the functions of væ (‘and’) as a discourse marker in Persian. More specifically, this study accounts for certain aspects of væ co-occurrences and their linearization order. Fraser’s model ( forthcoming ) was mainly employed to classify the multiple functions conveyed by væ . A corpus-based approach was taken to provide an overview of væ co-occurrences with other discourse markers. The data were collected from both written …
Beyond sentence grammar: Persian directives in interaction
Never have they had any chance to spread their wings ’: The construction of agency and socio-gender identity of Iranian women
This paper intends to study how the agency and social-gender identity of Iranian women are constructed through social-cultural-political structures. To this end, we conducted 35 semi-structured interviews with Iranian citizens, both men and women in the context of the Zan-Zendegi-Azadi (Women-Life-Freedom) movement in Iran. This study is grounded upon the main tenets of Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA), seeking to give voice to the oppressed and…
Unraveling the force dynamics in conceptual metaphors of Covid-19: A multilevel analysis
So far, cognitive linguistics studies on COVID-19 have focused mainly on conceptual metaphors, paying scant attention to other construal operations such as force dynamics (FD). Adopting Kövecses’s (2020, Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio ) hybrid account of conceptual metaphor and FD, this study attempts to outline an enriched cognitive view of the figurative conceptualization of illness. It also aims to answer the question: Can FD and…
Covid-19 in English and Persian: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Illness Metaphors across Languages
This article investigates conceptual metaphors for Covid-19 in two languages, American English and Persian, using two approaches, namely Lakoff & Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory and Kövecses’s approach to universal metaphors. The data for the analysis were drawn from a large corpus of Covid-19 metaphors in American English and a smaller corpus extracted from major news websites in Persian. The analysis focuses on examining the source domains…
Aspects of væ (‘and’) as a discourse marker in Persian
This study investigates the functions of væ (‘and’) as a discourse marker in Persian. More specifically, this study accounts for certain aspects of væ co-occurrences and their linearization order. Fraser’s model ( forthcoming ) was mainly employed to classify the multiple functions conveyed by væ . A corpus-based approach was taken to provide an overview of væ co-occurrences with other discourse markers. The data were collected from both written …
Never have they had any chance to spread their wings ’: The construction of agency and socio-gender identity of Iranian women
This paper intends to study how the agency and social-gender identity of Iranian women are constructed through social-cultural-political structures. To this end, we conducted 35 semi-structured interviews with Iranian citizens, both men and women in the context of the Zan-Zendegi-Azadi (Women-Life-Freedom) movement in Iran. This study is grounded upon the main tenets of Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA), seeking to give voice to the oppressed and…
The interface of prosody and pragmatics: A phono-pragmatic analysis of bebin ('look') in Persian
Beyond sentence grammar: Persian directives in interaction
The metaphorical construction of ‘people’ in the Iranian political discourse: A cognitive critical metaphor analysis
The present paper seeks to examine the metaphorical structures that conceptualise people and their status and role in the discourse of the Iranian Supreme Leader. Drawing upon critical cognitive metaphor analysis (Charteris-Black, 2004) and the theory of agency in language (Duranti, 2004), we approached 300 speeches of the Iranian Supreme Leader from 1997 to 2023 to figure out how the agency of people in different areas is controlled and constric…
Hair or fist: Framing a movement through visual metaphtonymy
In 2022, a protest movement in Iran was triggered by the death of a woman who had been arrested for not covering her hair in the way required by the government. The movement spread but was then squashed. Media coverage was intense and showed many images employing visual metaphors and metonymies, often in combination. While there are now many studies analyzing multimodal metaphors in political contexts, no study has, yet, dealt with the metaphors …
Psychology (6 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Metaphor (4 works) · Persian (4 works) · Conceptual metaphor (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works)