Primary Research Area   

Interpersonal and Intercultural Pragmatics, especially im/politeness theory, and theories of face     



Areas of interest and/or teaching   

Systemic Functional Grammar of English and Persian     
Conversation Analysis     
Cognitive Linguistics, especially polysemy and categorization     
Sociolinguistics, especially sociolinguistics of style     
Language and Culture     
Social Psychology of the Iranian Interpersonal Relations