Mojde Yaqubi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mojde Yaqubi plays a role.
Articles
2021 Revisited interpretation of Ta’ārof: Towards a model of analysing meta-implicatures of Persian offers in Iranian films Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 34:2, pp. 712–738 | Article
Speech acts used in doing ta’ārof (Iranian system of politeness) have been conceptualized in terms of both positive (i.e. sincere or genuine) and negative (i.e. ritual or ostensible) meanings. This study aimed to revisit the interpretation of the negative meaning by concentrating on ta’ārof… read more
2021 Qābeli nadāre (It is not worthy of you): Anything except offer of money is expected in English subtitles Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 7:3, pp. 308–338 | Article
This article reports on a study of English subtitles of Persian Ostensible Offer of Money (POOM). The first stage of this study involved identifying instances of POOM in Iranian films on the basis of their locutions (forms) and culture-specific contextual features and underlying concepts. At… read more
2020 Subtitling of ostensible speech acts (OSAs): Towards proposing a guideline Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 33:2, pp. 641–666 | Article
Persian-English subtitling of Iranian films deals with the challenges of understanding and transferring ostensible speech acts (OSAs). Both linguistic and cultural variations of these elements in Persian and English are expected to create serious difficulties for subtitlers. Although few studies… read more