Rate My Professor Reza Arab

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Linguistics Arts and Culture Communications Social Science Applied Linguistics Pragmatics Discourse Analysis Semantics Sociolinguistics Anthropological Linguistics

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4.08/20/2025

Always patient and willing to help.

4.05/21/2025

Encourages creativity and critical thinking.

5.03/31/2025

Encourages students to ask questions.

4.02/27/2025

Makes learning a joyful experience.

5.02/5/2025

Great Professor!

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About Reza

Dr. Reza Arab is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the School of Languages and Cultures in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Queensland, where he also serves as the English as an International Language Major Convenor. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Griffith University in 2021, with a thesis titled To be with salt, to speak with taste: metapragmatics of playful speech practices in Persian. Arab's research specializations include pragmatics, cultural linguistics, and intercultural communication, focusing on how humour, metaphor, and language practices shape belonging, identity, and interaction across cultural and institutional contexts. His work incorporates historical pragmatics, contrastive semantics, discourse analysis in national settings, and frameworks such as ethnopragmatics and corpus-based discourse analysis. He has led projects on humour in prison discourse, media representations, political communication, and metaphors of national belonging. Arab's 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 Erasmus Mundus mobility programme.