Reza Arab

List of Academic publications:

Arab, Reza and Mullan, Kerry (2026).Having fun is a matter of taste: ‘funny’ words in French and Persian. Explorations in applied ethnolinguistics. (pp. 289-307) Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-81681-9_15

Arab, Reza and Anderson, Heather (2025).Situational irony in Australian prison radio: humour as a tool for coping and resistance. Media International Australia 1329878X251403575. doi: 10.1177/1329878×251403575

Arab, Reza (2025).The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts, written by Esther Linares-Bernabéu. Contrastive Pragmatics, 1-5. doi: 10.1163/26660393-bja10147

Rarrick, Samantha and Arab, Reza (2025).Contextual clips: prioritizing neglected recordings in corpora. Language Documentation and Conservation, 19, 67-81.

Delshad, Parvin, Ball, Lauren and Arab, Reza (2024).Medical certificates: more than just paperwork. Australian Journal of General Practice, 53 (11 Supplement), S123-S127. doi: 10.31128/AJGP-02-24-7154

Arab, Reza (2024).Metapragmatics of Maze (Taste) in Persian. The Handbook of Cultural Linguistics. (pp. 383-405) edited by Alireza Korangy. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-3800-1_18

Arab, Reza (2024).Epistemic sentence-initial constructions as incongruity markers English “it is ironic [that]” vs Persian “bāmaze ast [ke]”. International Review of Pragmatics, 16 (2), 232-253. doi: 10.1163/18773109-01602003

Arab, Reza (2023).Book review: Thielemann, Nadine (2020). Understanding Conversational Joking: A Cognitive-pragmatic Study Based on Russian Interactions. John Benjamins.. European Journal of Humour Research, 11 (4), 128-132.

Lovell, Sue and Arab, Reza (2022).Evaluating the credibility of storied matter in the context of agential realism. Angelaki, 27 (6), 50-66. doi: 10.1080/0969725x.2022.2139018

Arab, Reza (2022).Cultural semantics of the ‘salt’ word in Persian. International Journal of Language and Culture, 9 (1), 119-150. doi: 10.1075/ijolc.21038.ara

Arab, Reza and Davis, Jessica Milner (2022).Humour and belonging: a thematic review. European Journal of Humour Research, 10 (2), 1-13.

Arab, Reza (2019).Ethnopragmatics of Hāzer Jāvabi, a valued speech practice in Persian. Studies in ethnopragmatics, cultural semantics, and intercultural communication: Ethnopragmatics and semantic analysis. (pp. 75-94) edited by Kerry Mullan, Bert Peeters and Lauren Sadow. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-32-9983-2_5

Arab, Reza (2016).A review of agency and structure: Where does Rorty’s Ironist stand?. European Scientific Journal, 12 (8), 36-51. doi: 10.19044/esj.2016.v12n8p36

Conference Papers

Arab, Reza and Delshad, Parvin (2025).Pragmatic considerations of the challenges of medical certification for international medical graduates in Australian general practice.. 5th Conference on Discourse, Culture & Interaction (DCI-5), Brisbane, QLD Australia, 27-28 Nov 2025.

Arab, Reza and Rarrick, Samantha (2025).Pragmatics of Tok Pilai in Kere. 19th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2025), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 22 – 27 June 2025. International Pragmatics Association.

Arab, Reza (2025).Making democracy accessible: rethinking political communication for Australia’s migrant communities. Cultural Pragmatics and Migration Linguistics Symposium, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 16 June 2025.

Arab, Reza (2024).“It’s funny that you’ve grown white”: Negotiating identity and intersubjectivity on prison radios. 4th Conference on Discourse, Culture and Interaction, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 5-6 December 2024.

Arab, Reza and Anderson, Heather (2024).The language of prison radios: humour and coping. 30th Australasian Humour Studies Network Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 7-9 February 2024.

Rarrick, Samantha and Arab, Reza (2023).Contextual clips as neglected (meta)data: Insights on corpora from a humorous collaboration. International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, Hawaii, United States, 2-5 March 2023.

Arab, Reza (2018).Persian light verbs in NSM explications: some issues. Semantic Workshop 2018, Canberra, ACT Australia, 22-23 March 2018.

Arab, Reza (2017).Semantics and ethnopragmatics of hazer javabi (‘ready to respond’) in Persian. The Australian Linguistics Society Conference, Sydney, NSW Australia, 4-7 December 2017.