Amin Zaini
List of John Benjamins publications for which Amin Zaini plays a role.
Articles
2023 Power dynamics and pragma-cultural sources of unsourced evidentiality in Persian Pragmatics 33:1, pp. 99–123 | Article
This paper investigates participants’ reflections on power relations embedded in the cultural-pragmatics of unsourced evidentials in Persian texts. Using Fairclough’s (2013) critical discourse analysis, we adopted Hanks’ (2018) ethnography of referential practices and Foucault’s (1980) power… read more
2022 Cultural and politico-religious challenges impacting critical reading of text for Iranian postgraduates in Australia Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:1, pp. 76–97 | Article
This study investigates the impact of cultural and politico-religious dominance on the practice of critical reading (CR) of texts by a group of Iranian postgraduate students in Australia. Four postgraduate students were interviewed individually four times (each time for reading one text) for… read more