Farzad Karimzad
About Me
I am a linguist who is interested in social and cognitive aspects and impacts of language. My research focuses on how humans create meaning through interaction, emphasizing the role of space and time in shaping learning, meaning-making, and behavior. My current research explores the intersection of discourse and materiality, human-AI interaction, and semiosis and social change, examining how these processes impact communication, education, and societal transformations.
Education and Academic Positions
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2023- Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of English,
Salisbury University
2021-2023 Associate Editor, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
2017-2023 Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of English,
Salisbury University
EDUCATION
2017 Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dissertation
title: “Sociolinguistic Effects of Mobility: Iranian Azerbaijanis in the U.S.”
2014 M.A., Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2012 M.A., TESOL, West Virginia University
2010 M.A., TEFL, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran (Left ABD)
2008 B.A., Translation Studies, Azad University of Tabriz, Iran
Publications
Books
Karimzad, Farzad. (in prep). Chronotopic Schemas, Scalar Images, and Fractal Resolutions:
Multilingualism in Iran. Palgrave series in Multilingualism in the Global South.
London: Palgrave.
Karimzad, Farzad. & Catedral, L. (2021). Chronotopes and Migration: Language, Social
Imagination, and Behavior. New York: Routledge. Click here
"This is innovative and original research on two diasporic communities which [are] relatively underresearched in applied linguistics...I expect it to open new avenues of inquiry on the topic of language, migration and belonging of transnational migrants in today’s world...The book presents a significant intellectual contribution to the field of applied linguistics by focusing on the complexity of locality and synchronicity...This is an outstanding book with great potential to shape disciplinary conversations around language, migration and space."
- AAAL Award Committee
Peer Reviewed Journals
Karimzad, Farzad. (forthcoming). The meta-metapragmatics of human and AI (inter)action:
Mattering and materializing sociolinguistic theory.
Catedral, L. & Karimzad, Farzad. (forthcoming). From the material to the social and back again:
Grassroots migrants and the fractal complexification of care. American
Anthropologist.
Karimzad, Farzad. & Catedral, L. (2022). Chronotopic Resolution, Embodied Subjectivity,
and Collective Learning: A Sociolinguistic Theory of Survival”. Special Issue on
‘Chronotopes and the COVID-19 Pandemic’, edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina
Perrino, Language, Culture and Society 4(2), 189 - 217.
Karimzad, Farzad. (2021). Multilingualism, chronotopes, and resolutions:
Toward an analysis of the total sociolinguistic fact. Applied Linguistics, 42(5),
848-877, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amaa053
Karimzad, Farzad. (2020). Metapragmatics of Normalcy: Mobility, Context, and Language
Choice. Special Issue on ‘Chronotopes and Chronotopic Relations’, edited by
Anna De Fina and Sabina Perrino, Language & Communication, 17, 107-118.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2019.02.001
Lyons, K. & Karimzad, Farzad. (2019). Chronotopeography: Nostalgia and modernity in the
South Delhi LL”. Special Issue on ‘Visceral Landscapes’, edited by Christopher
Stroud, Amiena Peck, and Quentin Williams, Sociolinguistic Studies, 13(1), 83–
104. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.36219
Karimzad, Farzad, & Catedral, L. (2018). Mobile (dis)connection: New technology and
rechronotopized images of the homeland. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology,
28(3), 293-312. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12198
Karimzad, Farzad, & Catedral, L. (2018). ‘No, we don't mix languages’: Ideological power
and the chronotopic organization of ethnolinguistic identities. Language in
Society, 47(1), 89-113. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404517000781
Terkourafi, M., Catedral, L., Haider, I., Karimzad, Farzad, Melgares, J., Mostacero, C.,
Nelson, J. Weissman, B. (2018). Uncivil Twitter: A Socio-pragmatic Analysis. Journal of
Language Aggression and Conflict, 1(6), 26-57.
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00002.ter
Karimzad, Farzad, & Sibgatullina, G. (2018). Replacing ‘Them’ With ‘Us’: Language
Ideologies and Practices of ‘Purification’ on Facebook. International
Multilingual Research Journal, 12(2), 124-139.
https://doi.org/10.1080/19313152.2017.1401449
Karimzad, Farzad. (2016). Life here beyond now: Chronotopes of the ideal life among
Iranian transnationals”. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 20(5), 607-630.
https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12211
Karimzad, Farzad. (2016[2018]). Optimal choices: Azeri multilingualism in indigenous and diaspora
contexts. International Journal of Bilingualism, 22(2), 141–158.
Book Chapters
Catedral, L. & Karimzad, Farzad. (Forthcoming ). Dialog across spatiotemporal
imaginaries: Unsettling language, reimagining transnationalism, and
materializing care. In J. Park & B. Bolander (Eds.), Unsettling language for
transnationalism research: identity, materiality, imagination, and beyond.
Karimzad, Farzad, & Catedral, L. (2022). Chapter 1: Navigating Topics and Creating
Research Questions in Linguistic Anthropology. In S. Perrino and S. Pritzker
(Eds.), Research Methods in Linguistic Anthropology. Bloomsbury Academic
Press.
Karimzad, Farzad. (2019). Mobility, Identity, and Complexity: Iranian Azerbaijanis in the
U.S.”. In Mirvahedi S. (ed.) The Sociolinguistics of Iran’s Languages at Home and
Abroad. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19605-9_10
Karimzad, Farzad. (2018). Language ideologies and the politics of language: Azerbaijanis in
Iran”. In Madina Djuraeva, & Francois V. Tochon (Eds.), Language Policy or the
Politics of Language: Re-imagining the Role of Language in a Neoliberal Society.
Blue Mounds, WI: Deep University Press.