Dr Reza Arab
Dr

Reza Arab

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Background

Dr Reza Arab is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the School of Languages and Cultures. His expertise lies in pragmatics, cultural linguistics, and intercultural communication, with a focus on how humour, metaphor, and language practices shape belonging, identity, and interaction across cultural and institutional contexts.

His research spans historical pragmatics, contrastive semantics, and discourse analysis, particularly in national and Indigenous settings. He has led and contributed to projects on humour in prison discourse, media representations, and political communication. Dr Arab is also the major convenor for English as an International Language (EIL) at UQ.

Availability

Dr Reza Arab is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Fields of research

Communication and media studies Communication studies Communication technology and digital media studies Comparative language studies Corpus linguistics Cultural studies Cultural studies of nation and region Discourse and pragmatics English language Language studies Language, Communication and Culture Lexicography and semantics Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax) Linguistics Middle Eastern languages Migrant cultural studies Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies Sociolinguistics

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Griffith University

Research impacts

Dr Arab’s research explores how language reflects and constructs cultural values, intersubjectivity, and social inclusion. His current projects examine Indigenous forms of humour and oral play, metaphors of national belonging, and the semantics of taste and humour-related vocabulary in Persian.

He is also leading a project titled Making Democracy Accessible: Rethinking Political Communication for Australia’s Migrant Communities.

His work draws on frameworks such as cultural linguistics, ethnopragmatics, and corpus-based discourse analysis. His research has been supported by funding from The University of Queensland, the Australian Linguistics Society, the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, and the European Commission mobility programme (Erasmus Mundus).

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21 works between 2016 and 2026
All (21) Journal Article (10) Other Outputs (1) Conference Publication (7) Book Chapter (3)

21 - 21 of 21 works

2016

Journal Article

A review of agency and structure: Where does Rorty’s Ironist stand?

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

A review of agency and structure: Where does Rorty’s Ironist stand?

Availability

Dr Reza Arab is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • For prospective applicants

    • PhD candidates: Currently available to serve as an Associate Supervisor only. Please make contact after securing a Principal Supervisor.

    • Master’s or Honours projects: Please email your project proposal to arrange an appointment.

Enquiries

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