Tahmineh Tayebi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tahmineh Tayebi plays a role.
Articles
2021 Conceptualizations of ugly and beautiful: An analysis of im/politeness metapragmatic markers in Persian The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures, Gladkova, Anna and Jesús Romero-Trillo (eds.), pp. 128–146 | Article
The aim of this paper is to study conceptualizations of two Persian evaluative terms, namely zesht (ugly) and zibâ (beautiful), by focusing on their uses at the metapragmatic level in evaluations of im/polite act. To achieve this aim, by drawing on natural and authentic examples from Persian,… read more
2020 Heterogeneous distribution of cultural conceptualizations and (im)politeness evaluations Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics, Schröder, Ulrike, Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Hans-Georg Wolf (eds.), pp. 84–103 | Article
The argumentative and variable nature of (im)politeness evaluations and perceptions has long been discussed by scholars working in the field. The variability found in the perception of (im)politeness norms is arguably one of the most important and fundamental components of (im)politeness research. read more
2017 Perception of (im)politeness and the underlying cultural conceptualisations: A study of Persian Pragmatics and Society 8:2, pp. 231–253 | Article
The present study sets out to investigate the role of ‘culture’ as one of the many important factors that influence the evaluation of (im)politeness in Persian from a Cultural Linguistics perspective. The paper argues that Cultural Linguistics, and in particular the notion of cultural schema,… read more