Hamid Allami
Biographic Data
| ID | 1508430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hamid Allami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hamid |
| FAMILY NAME | Allami |
| SIGNATURE | ALLAMI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yazd University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7882-856X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring (Im)Politeness Strategies in Indirect Reports in Persian across Genders
Politeness and impoliteness strategies create a vital social practice in our daily and professional interactions. Being once an issue in the code of conduct protocols, (im)politeness nowadays marks an interdisciplinary scientific field. Regarding this importance, this study explored the politeness and impoliteness strategies used in changing direct speech to indirect speech among male and female Persian speakers. Eighty Iranian Persian speakers (…
Functions of idioms in English as lingua franca
Idiomatic expressions are not just neutral equivalents of their literal counterparts, but exert some sort of evaluative force. This study employed the appraisal system (AS) to explore the functions of idiomatic expressions and their variations in English as a lingua franca context, and to compare different academic domains in terms of use of evaluative language in the form of idiomatic expressions. To this end, the corpus of English as a lingua f…
The Use of Repair Strategies in the EFL University Classroom During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia, Algeria, and Iran
This research discusses the variations of repair strategies used by lecturers and students during the online learning process. The aim of the study is to compare repair strategy variations in online learning in the university classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, Algeria and Iran. The research data are a series of utterances by lecturers and students in online classes, which were collected from video and audio recordings of three d…
Self-sacrifice expressions in Persian
In spite of its prevalence in Iranian Persian-speaking communities, the issue of self-sacrifice expressions as a culture-specific verbal behavior has remained almost ignored in the existing literature on speech acts. The current study is an enquiry into the use of self-sacrifice expressions by Iranian Persian speakers in performing different speech acts such as thanking, sympathizing, and expressing affection and love. Serving as a device of enco…
The 2 × 2 standards and standpoints measure of EFL teachers’ achievement goals
(Im)politeness strategies and use of discourse markers
This study aimed to investigate the L2 learners’, EFL teachers’, and American native speakers’ use of discourse markers as hedging devices to mitigate face-threatening acts considering gender, proficiency level, and control–experimental variables. It used open discourse role-play tasks, a self-assessment report of English competence, as well as a seven-scenario questionnaire with a five-point Likert scale and without it for L2 learners to transla…
Diglossic patterns of language use among speakers of Zoroastrian Dari ethnolect
This study investigates diglossic patterns of language use by speakers of Zoroastrian Dari in the city of Yazd, where most of Zoroastrian population of Iran lives. Efforts have been made to find out how, when and why the spoken language of Dari is favoured by Zoroastrian community members. For this reason, the evaluation by the informants of their abilities in the majority language, i.e. Persian, their different mother tongue behaviours, motivati…
An Investigation of the Effects of Citation Instruction to Avoid Plagiarism in EFL Academic Writing Assignments
Plagiarism in ESL and EFL learning contexts has become a topic engaging many researchers in a hot debate in recent years. Comparisons of student-generated texts with their source texts have shown that students rely amply on source texts in their writings, using copying as a major strategy. The students themselves relate these problems to their confusion of how to cite. Nevertheless, little research has been conducted on what constitutes effective…
Iranian EFL learners' compliment responses
A cross-linguistic study of refusals
A cross-linguistic study of refusals
Iranian EFL learners' compliment responses
(Im)politeness strategies and use of discourse markers
This study aimed to investigate the L2 learners’, EFL teachers’, and American native speakers’ use of discourse markers as hedging devices to mitigate face-threatening acts considering gender, proficiency level, and control–experimental variables. It used open discourse role-play tasks, a self-assessment report of English competence, as well as a seven-scenario questionnaire with a five-point Likert scale and without it for L2 learners to transla…
Diglossic patterns of language use among speakers of Zoroastrian Dari ethnolect
This study investigates diglossic patterns of language use by speakers of Zoroastrian Dari in the city of Yazd, where most of Zoroastrian population of Iran lives. Efforts have been made to find out how, when and why the spoken language of Dari is favoured by Zoroastrian community members. For this reason, the evaluation by the informants of their abilities in the majority language, i.e. Persian, their different mother tongue behaviours, motivati…
An Investigation of the Effects of Citation Instruction to Avoid Plagiarism in EFL Academic Writing Assignments
Plagiarism in ESL and EFL learning contexts has become a topic engaging many researchers in a hot debate in recent years. Comparisons of student-generated texts with their source texts have shown that students rely amply on source texts in their writings, using copying as a major strategy. The students themselves relate these problems to their confusion of how to cite. Nevertheless, little research has been conducted on what constitutes effective…
The 2 × 2 standards and standpoints measure of EFL teachers’ achievement goals
Self-sacrifice expressions in Persian
In spite of its prevalence in Iranian Persian-speaking communities, the issue of self-sacrifice expressions as a culture-specific verbal behavior has remained almost ignored in the existing literature on speech acts. The current study is an enquiry into the use of self-sacrifice expressions by Iranian Persian speakers in performing different speech acts such as thanking, sympathizing, and expressing affection and love. Serving as a device of enco…
The Use of Repair Strategies in the EFL University Classroom During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia, Algeria, and Iran
This research discusses the variations of repair strategies used by lecturers and students during the online learning process. The aim of the study is to compare repair strategy variations in online learning in the university classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, Algeria and Iran. The research data are a series of utterances by lecturers and students in online classes, which were collected from video and audio recordings of three d…
Exploring (Im)Politeness Strategies in Indirect Reports in Persian across Genders
Politeness and impoliteness strategies create a vital social practice in our daily and professional interactions. Being once an issue in the code of conduct protocols, (im)politeness nowadays marks an interdisciplinary scientific field. Regarding this importance, this study explored the politeness and impoliteness strategies used in changing direct speech to indirect speech among male and female Persian speakers. Eighty Iranian Persian speakers (…
Functions of idioms in English as lingua franca
Idiomatic expressions are not just neutral equivalents of their literal counterparts, but exert some sort of evaluative force. This study employed the appraisal system (AS) to explore the functions of idiomatic expressions and their variations in English as a lingua franca context, and to compare different academic domains in terms of use of evaluative language in the form of idiomatic expressions. To this end, the corpus of English as a lingua f…
Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Persian (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works)