Esmat Babaii
List of John Benjamins publications for which Esmat Babaii plays a role.
Articles
2023 Representation of women in English and Persian proverbs: A Cultural-Linguistic perspective Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Article
The present study aims to investigate the portrayal of women in English and Persian proverbs using the multidisciplinary field of Cultural Linguistics as an alternative to critical discourse analysis. Utilizing a corpus analysis approach for Cultural Linguistics (Jensen 2017), 124 English and… read more
2017 The question of power in language classes from a critical discourse analysis perspective: Once a student, always a student? Pragmatics and Society 8:4, pp. 542–570 | Article
Informed by the major tenets of critical discourse analysis, the present study attempted to expose the chasm between veteran English teachers enjoying a nation-wide popularity and those linguistically talented novices achieving locally mediocre fame in the Iranian EFL context. In so doing, two… read more