Mohsen Bakhtiar
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mohsen Bakhtiar plays a role.
Articles
2024 Chapter 9. The role of Persian proverbs in framing Iran’s nuclear program: A cognitive linguistic approach Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art, Belkhir, Sadia (ed.), pp. 230–257 | Chapter
This chapter explores how Persian proverbial metaphors are used in discourse to frame Iran’s nuclear program. To that end, contextual uses of a sample of Persian proverbs were analysed in terms of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The results demonstrate that proverbs’ scope of operation goes way… read more
2019 A cognitive linguistic view of control mechanism in Iranian culture: The case of effat ‘chastity’ in Persian Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:2, pp. 465–496 | Article
This research deals with the conceptualizations of effat in Persian and seeks to find out how this cultural key concept regulates the sexuality of Iranians. The analysis of the data collected from the Persian newspaper Kayhan indicates that effat is part of a larger cultural model that operates… read more
2017 The role of context in the formation of hejab ‘veiling’ metaphors in hejab billboards and posters in Iran Metaphor and the Social World 7:2, pp. 159–189 | Article
Proper hejab observance has long been an important issue to political-religious conservatives in Iran who, in recent years, have relied on metaphorical language to persuade Iranian women to dress modestly in public. The present paper, based on Kövecses’s (2015) account of metaphor in context,… read more
2016 “Pour water where it burns”: Dysphemistic conceptualizations of the enemy in Persian political discourse Metaphor and the Social World 6:1, pp. 103–133 | Article
While dysphemism has been extensively studied as a general phenomenon, there are not too many studies on how it is used in political discourse by top officials. This paper aims to examine the ways in which a sample of two high-level Iranian politicians offensively conceptualize their alleged… read more
2015 Cognitive model of GHEIRAT in Persian Cognitive Linguistic Studies 2:2, pp. 257–288 | Article
GHEIRAT seems to be a complex emotion in Iranian men and women with a variety of contextual meanings including, jealousy, chivalry, courage, and protecting one’s nâmus ‘female family members’. GHEIRAT may be defined as a monitoring device or alarm system in the mind of Iranians. The cognitive… read more
2014 Metaphorical eternity in action: The nonlinguistic realization of death metaphors in Iranian culture Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1:2, pp. 252–270 | Article
Conceptual metaphors can be made real in culture and structure many areas of human experience in nonlinguistic ways (Kövecses 2005). In this paper, relying on a cognitive account of metaphor, I attempted to find out in which ways death metaphors manifest themselves in Iranian culture. Analyzing the… read more