Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi

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Academic interests

sociology of language; language policy and planning; language maintenance and shift; (trans) nationalism; migration and globalization; interactional sociolinguistics

Courses taught

  • Language Policy and Planning, University of Oslo, Norway
  • Introduction to Sociolinguistics, University of Oslo, Norway
  • Language Policy and Planning, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Language Maintenance and Shift, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Teaching Methodologies, Azerbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran
  • ESP course, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Educational Background

PhD in Applied linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

MA in Applied Linguistics, Azerbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

BA in Translation Studies, Payam-e-Noor University, Tabriz, Iran

Awards

  • 2017-19 Faculty research grant, Nanyang Technological University
  • 2014 Victoria PhD completion award, Victoria University of Wellington
  • 2010-13 Faculty grant, Victoria University of Wellington
  • 2011 Victoria Doctoral Scholarship, Victoria University of Wellington

Appointments

Aug 2019 - June 2020    Visiting Scholar, Babylon: Center for the Study of Superdiversity, Tilburg University

July 2017 - July 2019    Postdoctoral Fellow , Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological university, Singapore

Sep 2014 - Apr 2015    Casual lecturer of Applied Linguistics , Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University; Invited lecturer, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences                                   

 

Publications

  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi & Hosseini, Mona (2023). Multilingual children’s imaginative worlds and their language use: A chronotopic analysis. International Journal of Bilingualism. ISSN 1367-0069. p. 1–16. doi: 10.1177/13670069231158064. Full text in Research Archive
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi & Hosseini, Mona (2023). Family language policy in retrospect: Narratives of success and failure in an Indian–Iranian transnational family. Language Policy. ISSN 1568-4555. 22, p. 179–200. doi: 10.1007/s10993-023-09649-4. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sevinc, Yesim & Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2022). Emotions and multilingualism in family language policy: Introduction to the special issue. International Journal of Bilingualism. ISSN 1367-0069. p. 1–14. doi: 10.1177/13670069221131762. Full text in Research Archive
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi; Rajabi, Mojtaba & Aghaei, Khadijeh (2021). Family language policy and language maintenance among Turkmen-Persian bilingual families in Iran. In Wright, Lyn & Higgins, Christina (Ed.), Diversifying Family Language Policy. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350189904. p. 191–212.
  • Gharibi, Khadij & Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2021). ‘You are Iranian even if you were born on the moon’: family language policies of the Iranian diaspora in the UK. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (JMMD). ISSN 0143-4632. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2021.1935974. Full text in Research Archive
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2021). What can interactional sociolinguistics bring to the family language policy research table? The case of a Malay family in Singapore. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (JMMD). ISSN 0143-4632. p. 1–16. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2021.1879089. Full text in Research Archive
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi & Cavallaro, Francesco (2020). Siblings' play and language shift to English in a Malay‐English bilingual family in Singapore. World Englishes. ISSN 0883-2919. 39(1), p. 183–197. doi: 10.1111/weng.12417.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2020). Examining family language policy through the realist social theory. Language in society. ISSN 0047-4045. p. 1–22. doi: 10.1017/S0047404520000287. Full text in Research Archive
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2019). Iranians at home and abroad: Current sociolinguistic issues, possible solutions, and future trajectories. In Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (Eds.), The Sociolinguistics of Iran’s Languages at Home and Abroad: The Case of Persian, Azerbaijani, and Kurdish. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-030-19605-9. p. 279–290.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2019). Nationalism, modernity and the issue of linguistic diversity in Iran. In Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (Eds.), The Sociolinguistics of Iran’s Languages at Home and Abroad: The Case of Persian, Azerbaijani, and Kurdish. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-030-19605-9. p. 1–21.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2019). Sociological realism and language policy analysis: A way forward. Current Issues in Language Planning. ISSN 1466-4208. 20(3). doi: 10.1080/14664208.2018.1520472.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2018). Construction of an ideal parent: Exploring the interplay between the educational policies and Azerbaijani families' agentive responses in Tabriz, Iran. In Bouchard, Jeremie & Glasgow, Gregory Paul (Ed.), Agency in Language Policy and Planning: Critical Inquiries. Routledge. ISSN 9781138316188. p. 126–148.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2018). Medical tourism and its niched impact in Tabriz, Iran: Opportunities and challenges for Iranian Azerbaijanis. Linguistic Landscape. ISSN 2214-9953. 4(2), p. 129–153. doi: 10.1075/ll.17032.mir.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi & Jafari, Rasoul (2018). Family language policy in the City of Zanjan: A city for the forlorn Azerbaijani. International Journal of Multilingualism. ISSN 1479-0718. doi: 10.1080/14790718.2018.1545019.
  • Macalister, John & Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2017). Beginnings. In Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (Eds.), Family language policy in a multilingual world: Challenges, opportunities, and consequences . Routledge. ISSN 9781138666078. p. 1–12.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi & Macalister, John (2017). Home as a confluence of discourses in multilingual linguistic ecologies. In Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (Eds.), Family language policy in a multilingual world: Challenges, opportunities, and consequences . Routledge. ISSN 9781138666078. p. 219–235.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2017). Exploring family language policy among Azerbaijani-speaking families in the City of Tabriz. In Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (Eds.), Family language policy in a multilingual world: Challenges, opportunities, and consequences . Routledge. ISSN 9781138666078. p. 74–95.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2016). Linguistic landscaping in Tabriz, Iran: A discursive transformation of an Azerbaijani-Farsi speaking space into a Farsi-English speaking place. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. ISSN 0165-2516. 242, p. 195–216. doi: 10.1515/ijsl-2016-0039.
  • Hawes, Thomas & Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2013). Language attrition and loss of identity: Azeri-Farsi codeswitching in Tabriz Iran. In Wiggen, Geirr; Bull, Tove & Nielsen, Marit Aamodt (Ed.), Ernst Håkon Jahr: Språkhistorie og språkkontakt. Language History and Language Contact. Festskrift til Ernst Håkon Jahr på 60-årsdagen 4. mars 2008. Novus Forlag. ISSN 978-82-7099-476-2. p. 248–265.

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  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2022). Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia The Politics of Language and Public Signage. Routledge. ISBN 9780367764586. 230 p.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2019). The Sociolinguistics of Iran’s Languages at Home and Abroad: The Case of Persian, Azerbaijani, and Kurdish. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-19605-9. 311 p.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2017). Family language policy in a multilingual world: Challenges, opportunities, and consequences . Routledge. ISBN 9781138666078. 244 p.

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  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2022). Introduction. In Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (Eds.), Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia The Politics of Language and Public Signage. Routledge. ISSN 9780367764586.
  • Lanza, Elizabeth & Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2022). Translanguaging Matters in Multilingual Families.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2022). Family language policy from a Sothern perspective: The case of Afghan families in Norway.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2022). Sexuality on live streams: A glance at the issue of agency and structure in the online-offline nexus in Iran.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2022). The politics of script(s) and writing in Iran.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2022). Family language policy in Afghan families in Norway.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi & Crepaldi, Yvonne Tse (2021). A tale of a transnational family in Singapore: Past experiences, present practices, future aspirations.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2021). “In England, if you talk to a minor, you go to jail”: Negotiation of age and its legal requirements across borders on online spaces.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2021). Linguistic landscapes reflect and facilitate tourism: The case of medical tourism in Mashhad, Iran.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2021). Linguistic landscapes: A window to (un)realities.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2021). Investigating agency and structure in family language policy scholarship.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2013). Review of Catrin Norrby and John Hajek (Eds.). Uniformity and diversity in language policy: Global perspectives, Australian Journal of Linguistics. ISSN 0726-8602. 33(1), p. 88–91.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2012). Review of Tania Granadillo & Heidi A. Orcutt-Gachiri (Eds.) Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Endangered Languages. Language in society. ISSN 0047-4045. 41(5), p. 693–694.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2011). Review of Louise Mullany and Peter Stockwell, Introducing English Language (A Resource Book for Students). Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL). ISSN 0155-0640. 34(3), p. 352–354.
  • Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2011). Review of Peter Garrett, Attitudes to Language (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics). Discourse & Society. ISSN 0957-9265. 22(3), p. 369–371.

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