Amouzadeh Mahdiraji specializes in Pragmatics in its continental sense, including sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, discourse analysis, and semiotics. His primary focus is on the relationship between language, culture, and cognition. Currently, he is a professor of linguistics at the University of Isfahan. He began his career as an assistant professor at the University of Isfahan in 2000, and has also worked intermittently as a visiting scholar or Humboldt senior researcher at various institutes around the world, such as Hamburg University, Freiburg University, Heinrich Heine University, Charles Prague University, Berkeley University, and Sun Yat-sen University. He has published numerous articles in leading international and local scientific journals, as well as book chapters in the fields of linguistics, translation studies, pragmatics, and Persian literature. He has also presented papers at many international conferences.
Pragmatics in Continental Sense Including Discourse Analysis Sociolinguistics
University of Adelaide [Australia- Adelaide]
Ph.D., Linguistics
University of Queensland [Australia- Queensland]
M.A. , Applied Linguistics
University of Shahid Beheshti [Tehran- Iran]
B.A. , English Language and Literature
My research interests lie primarily in the area of Pragmatics in Continental Sense Including Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics .
Diyanati, M., Amouzadeh, M. (2025). Deictic Shifts and Re-Contextualization in Translation: A Case Study of English and Persian parallel texts. Pragmatics & Society. (in press/2025)
Amouzadeh, M., Diyanati, M. (2024). Alternating Mechanism of Person Deictic Terms in Persian Conversations: A Cognitive-Dialogic Account. Journal of Pragmatics 225, 87- 104.
Soltani, R., Amouzadeh, M., & Rezaei, H. (2024). The Persian Light Verb ‘Dadæn’ (To Give): Causation and More. Journal of Researches in Linguistics.
Malekahmadi, P., Yazdannik, A., Amouzadeh, M., Yamani, N. & Roberts, T. (2023). Qualitative Content Analysis of The Highly Cited Articles in Medical Education: Trends and Characteristics Associated With Citation of Published Studies in Medical Education Research. Medical Teacher, 45(12), 1419- 1424.
Basarati, A., Rezaei, H., Amouzadeh, M. (2023). The Pragmatics of Alternative Futures in Political Discourses: Legitimising The Politics of Preemption in Trump’s Discourse On Iran. Pragmatics.
Adibi, P., Kalani, S., Zahabi, S.J., & et al. (2023). Emotion Recognition Support System: Where Physicians And Psychiatrists Meet Linguists And Data Engineers. World Journal of Psychiatry. 19, 13(1).
Amouzadeh, M., Diyanati, M. (2022). Proximal and Distal Terms In Persian Interactions: An Integrative Approach. Language Sciences, 92, 101485.
Kazemian, R., Amouzadeh, M. (2022). Aspects of væ (‘and’) as a discourse marker in Persian. Pragmatics,32(4), 588- 619.
Tavangar, M., Diyanati, M., Amouzadeh, M. (2022). Pragmatics of Proverb Translation: The case of English and Persian. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 18(1), 131- 150.
Ramazanpour, R., Amouzadeh, M., & Rezaei, H. (2022).A Discourse-Pragmatic Study of Deictic Terms in (This) and Ân (That) in Daily Persian Conversations. Language Related Issues,13(2), 587- 621. [in Persian]
Shirzadi, S., Amouzadeh, M., Rezaei, V., & Kalantari, Ali. (2022). Pragmatic Aspects of Mægær (‘unless’) as a Discourse Maker is Persian. Journal of Language Research 12(2), 123- 146.
Ghaderi, S., Amouzadeh, M. (2021). Aspects Of Bale (‘Yes’) In Persian Discourse: Its Functions, Positions, and Evolution. Studia Linguistica, 75(3), 623- 658.
Noora, A., Amouzadeh, M. (2021). The Discourse Marker Of “Âxe” (‘Because’/‘But’) In Persian: An Intersubjectification Account. Journal of Researches in Linguistics, 12(2), 145- 162.
Mousavi, H., Amouzadeh, M. (2020). ‘I hear the smell of roses’: Semantic Aspects of Synaesthetic Constructions in Persian. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 18(2), 399- 429.
Kazemian, R., Amouzadeh, M. (2020). The Study of Va-Parenthetical in Persian. Journal of Linguistics and Khorasan Dialects, 11(2), 255- 280.
Kassaei, Gh. Amouzadeh, M. (2020). Combination of Discourse Markers in Persian. International Review of Pragmatics, 12, 135- 163.
Amouzadeh, M., Zareifard, R. (2019). Interactional Metadiscourse of Gender in Persian: The Case Of Conference Presentation. Journal of Pragmatics and Society, 10(4), 512- 531.
Mousavi, H., Amouzadeh, M. (2019). An Investigation of Motivations Behind Collocations Based on Frame Semantics: The Case Study of ‘Hand’. Journal of Linguistics and Khorasan Dialects, 20(1), 193- 225.
Ghaderi, S., Amouzadeh, M. (2019). The Discourse Marker of Are/bale-Na (yes-no) in Persian.Journal of Comparative Linguistics Researches, 9(2), 65- 91.
Ghaderi, S., Amouzadeh, M., & Rezaei, V. (2019). A Cognitive and Pragmatic Analysis of Persian conditionals.Language Related Research, 10(6), 233- 260.
Imani, A., Rafiei, A., & Amouzadeh, M. (2019). A Constructional Study of The Compounds of Body Part “Del” (Heart) in Persian. Journal of Language Research, 9(2), 23- 43.
Bahrami, H., Faramarzi, S., & Amouzadeh, M. (2018). A Comparative Study of Metaphorical Expression Understanding Between Children With Cochlear Implants and Normal Children. Auditory and Vestibular Research, 27(3), 131- 136.
Soltani, R., Amouzadeh, M., & Rezaei, H. (2018).Force-Dynamics And Polysemy In Lvcs Formed By Gereftan (‘take’). Journal of Language Research,8(2), 59- 78.
Soltani, R. Amouzadeh, M. (2018). From Heavy to Light Verb: The Case of dâdӕn (‘to give’) in Persian Based on the Cognitive Semantics. Journal of Linguistics and Khorasan Dialects, 18, 79- 100.
Ghaderi, S., Amouzadeh, M. (2018). Cooptation in Discourse Grammar: A Reconciliation Process Between Sentence Grammar And Thetical Grammar. Language and Linguistics, 13(26), 1- 18.
Book
Amouzadeh, M., Tavangar, M. (2013). The Influence of Standard Persian on Mazandarani: The case of Lexical Borrowings and Ablative Postposition, In Contact Linguistics in Africa and Beyond. Edited by Akinmade T. Akande and Rotimi Taiwa.New York: NOVA Science Publishers, PP: 149- 167.
Amouzadeh, M., Tavangar, M. & Shahnaseri. (2012). Subjective Modality in Persian and English Parallel Texts, in Subjectivity in Language and Discourse. Edited by Nicole Baumgarten, Inke Du Bois & Julian House. East Sussex: Emerald Group Publishing, pp: 245- 266.
Amouzadeh, M. (2008). Sociolinguistic Aspects of Persian Commercial Advertisements in Post-Revolutionary Iran. In M. Semati Media, Culture, & Society in Iran: Globalization & Islamic States. London: Routledge,PP: 130- 152.
Amouzadeh, M., Tavangar, M. (2004). Karbourdshanasi-e zaban. Tehran: SAMT. Translation of George Yule. (1996). Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Membership
Iranian Society of Intercultural Philosophy
The Societas Linguistica Europaea
Iranian Linguistics Association
International Association of Pragmatics
Areas of Interest
Pragmatics in Its Continental Sense (e.g. Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics)
Cognitive Linguistics
Persian Linguistics
Iranian Studies
Translation Studies
