Dr Amir Sheikhan
Applied Linguistics Discipline
Casual Academic
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 344 34277
Book Chapter
Sheikhan, Amir and Haugh, Michael (2023). Epistemics and conversational humour in intercultural first conversations. The pragmatics of humour in interactive contexts. (pp. 110-132) edited by Esther Linares Bernabéu. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/pbns.335.05she
Journal Articles
Sheikhan, Amir (2024). Responses to conversational humour: An analytical framework. Journal of Pragmatics, 224, 57-73. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.03.002
Sheikhan, Amir (2024). "I hope this is your last sorrow": condolence strategies in colloquial Persian. Pragmatics and Society, 15 (2), 215-245. doi: 10.1075/ps.21084.she
Sheikhan, Amir (2023). “I hope this is your last sorrow”: condolence strategies in colloquial Persian. Pragmatics and Society, 15 (2), 1-31. doi: 10.1075/ps.21084.she
Sheikhan, Amir and Haugh, Michael (2022). Non-serious answers to (improper) questions in talk shows. Journal of Pragmatics, 191, 32-45. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2022.01.020
Parvaresh, Vahid and Sheikhan, Sayyed Amir (2019). Pragmatic functions of ‘sort of’ in Persian: a vague language perspective. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 29 (1), 86-110. doi: 10.1075/japc.00022.par
Thesis
Sheikhan, Sayyed Amir (2023). Conversational humour in intercultural initial interactions in English. PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/0c2c7f7