Shahla Sharifi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Shahla Sharifi plays a role.
Articles
Semantic comprehension of idioms: Their effectiveness and psychological reliability Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:1, pp. 1–18 | Article
2020 This study intends to test the Graded Salience Hypothesis, in order to investigate the factors involved in comprehension. This research considered predictions derived from this hypothesis by evaluating the salience of idioms in the Persian language. We intended to measure Reading Time (RTs), and… read more
Studying characterization in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible : A cognitive stylistic analysis Pragmatics & Cognition 25:2, pp. 310–336 | Article
2018 Apart from the stylistic and cognitive studies which have already been done separately on Miller’s The Crucible, this paper provides a new insight into the play and its system of characterization by integrating these approaches. To this end, the paper draws on Jonathan Culpeper’s cognitive… read more