Bahram Kazemian holds a PhD in English Language and Linguistics and was born in Tabriz City, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran in 1979. He obtained his B.A. in English Translation and his M.A. in ELT from Islamic Azad University. Currently, he is the managing director of Unique Language Center. He has more than twenty years of experience in TEFL at different language institutes in Tabriz. His major thrust areas of interest and specialties are Grammatical Metaphor and Transitivity in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Critical Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices, Appraisal Framework in SFL, TEFL, TESOL, and Metadiscourse Markers (Hedges, Boosters, etc.). He has published over 25 articles and book reviews in international flagship journals plus one book. His recent book reviews (6) were published by De Gruyter (Intercultural Pragmatics), Routledge, and Elsevier (System). He serves as a member of Editorial Boards and Reviewers for various journals.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Language and Linguistics, Education, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities
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Scopus Publications
A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE: PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES IN NETANYAHU’S SPEECHES Bahram Kazemian, Shatha Naiyf Qaiwer Discourse and Interaction, 2025 This study aims to examine the persuasive impact of metadiscourse (MD) markers in political speeches. It seeks to determine the extent to which MD practices contribute to the construction of persuasive discourse within this genre. To achieve this objective, a discourse analysis is applied to ten political speeches delivered by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel. Hyland’s (2005a, 2005b) interpersonal models of MD are employed to investigate the frequency and persuasive impact of interactive and interactional devices utilized in speeches. The research has revealed that the persuasive intent conveyed through MD was largely dependent on the context. Consequently, Netanyahu often employed a combination of techniques to structure his discourse, influence audiences, capture their attention, and engage them in arguments. In addition, interactional devices were employed more frequently than interactive ones, indicating that engaging audiences in arguments and demonstrating one’s stance and assessment of propositions were more likely to contribute to the construction of a persuasive political speech. The research results can be shared with foreign and second language learners, instructors, and speakers to enhance their understanding of the linguistic and pragmatic conventions employed in political discourse. Additionally, it can shed light on how persuasive discourse is constructed using MD markers.
Critical discourse analysis and rhetorical tropes in donald trump’s first speech to the un Mahdi Derakhshani, Shatha Naiyf Qaiwer, Bahram Kazemian, Shafigeh Mohammadian Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2021 Language and politics go hand in hand and learning and comprehending political genre is to learn a language created for codifying, extending and transmitting political discourse in any text/talk. Drawing upon the theoretical framework of Fairclough’s CDA and Rhetoric, the current study aims at investigating Donald Trump’s First Speech, from the point of frequency and functions of some rhetorical strategies (Parallelism, Anaphora and the Power of Three, Antithesis and Expletive, etc.), Nominalization, Passivization, We-groups and Modality as well as Lexical and Textual Analysis, presented to the UN delivered on Sep. 19, 2017. Specifically, the study seeks to determine: (1) how President Trump succeeded in conveying his notions and assumptions to his intended audience, and in convincing and negotiating, (2) how he attempted to explicitly and implicitly pass his attitudes on his targets, and (3) how those orientations, intended notions and assumptions were seamlessly presented to his addressees in discoursal and lexico-grammatical levels; (4) and finally in this underlying trend how he achieved his own ends. The results of the study hope to enhance reading comprehension and writing in academic registers for EFL/ESL students.
Islamification vs. Islamophobia: A message to the youth in the occident: Critical & rhetorical inquiries Bahram Kazemian, Shatha Naiyf Qaiwer, Shafigeh Mohammadian Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021 Drawing upon the recent theoretical framework of Burkean concept of identification (ID), the current study aims at probing the interaction of content and form in two letters penned by Iran’s Supreme Leader and addressed to the Youth on Jan. and Nov. 2015. To this end, the study seeks (i) to determine a role ID takes in the conveyance of intended assumptions to the targeted readers; and (ii) to observe if the writer’s objectives, i.e. to identify himself with the readers and to realize his politically-religiously-infused creeds, result in success or failure; moreover, (iii) it seeks to determine how he achieved his end to attenuate the impacts of blazing inferno of Islamophobia and anti-Islam sentiments in his addressees. The whole corpus (about 3000 words), in light of van Dijk’s Socio-cognitive approach, is critically perused to seek out contextually-coded expressions. The study tries to set out a manner in which political text/talk could be analyzed rhetorically employing ID concept. It was found that ID as a two-way process is a key component for both parties to identify with. It makes the readers align themselves with the writer and helps the writer to associate with the readers and accomplish his goals.
Critical discourse analysis of Barack Obama's 2012 speeches: Views from systemic functional linguistics and Rhetoric Bahram Kazemian, Somayyeh Hashemi Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2014 In the light of Halliday's Ideational Grammatical Metaphor, Rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis, the major objectives of this study are to investigate and analyze Barack Obama's 2012 five speeches, which amount to 19383 words, from the point of frequency and functions of Nominalization, Rhetorical strategies, Passivization and Modality, in which we can grasp the effective and dominant principles and tropes utilized in political discourse. Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis frameworks based on a Hallidayan perspective are used to depict the orator's deft and clever use of these strategies in the speeches which are bound up with his overall political purposes. The results represent that nominalization, parallelism, unification strategies and modality have dominated in his speeches. There are some antithesis, expletive devices as well as passive voices in these texts. Accordingly, in terms of nominalization, some implications are drawn for political writing and reading, for translators and instructors entailed in reading and writing pedagogy.
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Review of Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Spoken English: Tony McEnery, Isobelle Clarke & Gavin Brookes, Cambridge University Press … B Kazemian Corpus Pragmatics 10 (1), 26 , 2026 2026 Citations: 1
Review of Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English, Hans Lindquist, Magnus Levin, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh (2026), xviii+ 240 $140. ISBN 9781399537384 … B Kazemian, S Mohammadian Applied Corpus Linguistics, 100214 , 2026 2026
A functional analysis of metadiscourse markers in political discourse: Persuasive strategies in Netanyahu’s speeches B Kazemian, SN Qaiwer Discourse and Interaction 18 (2), 120-143 , 2025 2025
Innovative approaches in teaching English writing to Chinese speakers: edited by Barry Lee Reynolds and Mark Feng Teng, Berlin, Boston, De Gruyter, 2021, xiv+ 272 pp., $137.99 … B Kazemian, S Mohammadian Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 1-4 , 2025 2025
Review of Butler (2024): Political Discourse Analysis: Legitimization Strategies in Crisis and Conflict B Kazemian, S Mohammadian Journal of Language and Politics 24 (1), 163-167 , 2025 2025
Developing a didactic framework across and beyond school subjects: cross-and transcurricular teaching: edited by Søren Harnow Klausen and Nina Mård, London, Routledge, 2024 … F Leng, B Kazemian Educational Review 77 (1), 322-323 , 2025 2025
Marzieh Sadeghpour & Farzad Sharifian: Cultural linguistics and world Englishes B Kazemian Intercultural Pragmatics 21 (1), 129-135 , 2024 2024
Jie Zhang: Language Policy and Planning for the Modern Olympic Games: B. Zhang, B. Kazemian B Zhang, B Kazemian Language Policy 21 (4), 617-619 , 2022 2022
Review of the Book: Challenges in Language Testing around the World: Insights for language test users. B Kazemian, S Mohammadian 2022
Critical Discourse Analysis and Rhetorical Tropes in Donald Trump’s First Speech to the UN M Derakhshani, SN Qaiwer, B Kazemian, S Mohammadian Theory and Practice in Language Studies 11 (10), 1224-1236 , 2021 2021 Citations: 26
Dovchin, Sender: Language, Social Media & Ideologies: Translingual Englishes, Facebook & Authenticities B Kazemian, S Mohammadian Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 10 (2), 313-318 , 2021 2021
Islamification vs. Islamophobia: A Message to the Youth in the Occident: Critical & Rhetorical Inquiries B Kazemian Journal of Language Teaching and Research 12 (5) , 2021 2021 Citations: 6
Jan Zienkowski Jan-Ola Östman Jef Verschueren: Discursive pragmatics: Handbook of pragmatics highlights B Kazemian Intercultural Pragmatics 15 (5), 733-742 , 2018 2018 Citations: 2
A radical shift to a profound and rigorous investigation in political discourse: an integrated approach B Kazemian, S Hashemi International Journal of English Linguistics 7 (3), 115-128 , 2017 2017 Citations: 21
Multimodality in Writing: The State of the Art in Theory, Methodology and Pedagogy B Kazemian Australian Journal of Linguistics 36 (4), 1-3 , 2016 2016 Citations: 1
The role of error analysis in teaching and learning of second and foreign language A Jobeen, B Kazemian, M Shahbaz Education and Linguistics Research 1 (2), 52-62 , 2015 2015 Citations: 204
The Importance of Culture in Second and Foreign Language Learning S Soomro, B Kazemian, I Mahar Dinamika Ilmu 15 (1), 1-10 , 2015 2015 Citations: 184
Describing discourse: a practical guide to discourse analysis B Kazemian Asian Journal of Communication 25 (5), 546-549 , 2015 2015 Citations: 6
An investigation of the reading text ‘Pakistan Zindabad’(Long Live Pakistan): Critical discourse analysis perspective S Soomro, B Kazemian, FA Bughio Education and Linguistics Research 1 (2), 42-51 , 2015 2015 Citations: 14
Arabic Fairy-Tales: An Analysis of Hatim Tai's Story within Propp's Model F Muhabat, RA Mangrio, B Kazemian, S Sadia, DM Noor Communication and Linguistics Studies 1 (2), 21-25 , 2015 2015 Citations: 6
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
The role of error analysis in teaching and learning of second and foreign language A Jobeen, B Kazemian, M Shahbaz Education and Linguistics Research 1 (2), 52-62 , 2015 2015 Citations: 204
The Importance of Culture in Second and Foreign Language Learning S Soomro, B Kazemian, I Mahar Dinamika Ilmu 15 (1), 1-10 , 2015 2015 Citations: 184
Critical discourse analysis of Barack Obama's 2012 speeches: Views from systemic functional linguistics and rhetoric B Kazemian Theory and Practice in Language Studies (TPLS) , 2014 2014 Citations: 172
Ideational grammatical metaphor in scientific texts: A Hallidayan perspective B Kazemian, B Behnam, N Ghafoori International journal of Linguistics , 2013 2013 Citations: 88
Systemic functional linguistics mood analysis of the last address of the holy prophet (pbuh) DM Noor, M Ali, F Muhabat, B Kazemian International Journal of Language and Linguistics. Special Issue: Critical … , 2015 2015 Citations: 84
Factors responsible for poor English reading comprehension at secondary level M Iqbal, DM Noor, F Muhabat, B Kazemian Communication and Linguistics Studies 1 (1), 1-6 , 2015 2015 Citations: 75
The language of TV commercials’ slogans: a semantic analysis DM Noor, R Mustafa, F Muhabat, B Kazemian Communication and Linguistics Studies 1 (1), 7-12 , 2015 2015 Citations: 38
Nominalizations in scientific and political genres: A systemic functional linguistics perspective B Kazemian, S Hashemi International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (IJHSS) 3 (2), 211-228 , 2014 2014 Citations: 38
A Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Inflectional Bound Morphemes of English, Azerbaijani and Persian Languages: A Comparative Study. B Kazemian, S Hashemi Journal of Education & Human Development 3 (1), 593-614 , 2014 2014 Citations: 32
Critical Discourse Analysis and Rhetorical Tropes in Donald Trump’s First Speech to the UN M Derakhshani, SN Qaiwer, B Kazemian, S Mohammadian Theory and Practice in Language Studies 11 (10), 1224-1236 , 2021 2021 Citations: 26
A Rhetorical Identification Analysis of English Political Public Speaking: John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address Q Zhou, B Kazemian International Journal of Language and Linguistics. Special Issue: Critical … , 2015 2015 Citations: 22
A radical shift to a profound and rigorous investigation in political discourse: an integrated approach B Kazemian, S Hashemi International Journal of English Linguistics 7 (3), 115-128 , 2017 2017 Citations: 21
Critical Discourse Analysis of a Reading Text ‘Pakistan and the Modern World’: A Speech by Liaquat Ali Khan S Ali, B Kazemian Communication and Linguistics Studies 1 (3), 35-41 , 2015 2015 Citations: 20
A comparative study of ideational grammatical metaphor in scientific and political texts B Behnam, B Kazemian Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances … , 2013 2013 Citations: 16
An investigation of the reading text ‘Pakistan Zindabad’(Long Live Pakistan): Critical discourse analysis perspective S Soomro, B Kazemian, FA Bughio Education and Linguistics Research 1 (2), 42-51 , 2015 2015 Citations: 14
Code-switching in Urdu books of Punjab text book board, Lahore, Pakistan DM Noor, DB Anwar, F Muhabat, B Kazemian Communication and Linguistics Studies 1 (2), 13-20 , 2015 2015 Citations: 14
Hallidayan ideational grammatical metaphor in specialized texts B Kazemian 2014 Citations: 7
A dialogical nature of structure in Keats’s odes as a circular escape from pain to pleasure: A Bakhtinian perspective B Kazemian 2014 Citations: 7
Islamification vs. Islamophobia: A Message to the Youth in the Occident: Critical & Rhetorical Inquiries B Kazemian Journal of Language Teaching and Research 12 (5) , 2021 2021 Citations: 6
Describing discourse: a practical guide to discourse analysis B Kazemian Asian Journal of Communication 25 (5), 546-549 , 2015 2015 Citations: 6
