Dr Amir Sheikhan
Applied Linguistics Discipline
Casual Academic
School of Languages and Cultures
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