Hiwa Weisi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hiwa Weisi plays a role.
Articles
2023 Semiotic manipulation strategies employed in Iranian printed advertisements Pragmatics and Society 14:1, pp. 70–89 | Article
Commercial advertisements are considered informative discourse, whereas the manipulative effects of their verbal and visual strategies have been ignored. According to van Dijk (2006), manipulation in mass media is performed by drawing the audience’s attention to information A rather than to B,… read more
2021 Language dominance and shift among Kalhuri Kurdish speakers in the multilingual context of Iran: Linguistic suicide or linguicide? Language Problems and Language Planning 45:1, pp. 56–79 | Article
The current language policy and planning of many countries still adhere to the nation-state ideology of “one nation equals one official language”. This issue is likely to cause the linguistic minority groups to devalue or even abandon their own mother tongue and identify with the official… read more