[1] He developed a theoretical and an analytical framework of cultural cognition, cultural conceptualisations, and language, which draw on and expands the analytical tools and theoretical advancements in several disciplines and sub-disciplines, including cognitive psychology, anthropology, distributed cognition, and complexity science.
The theoretical/analytical frameworks and their applications in several areas of applied linguistics including intercultural communication, cross-cultural/intercultural pragmatics, World Englishes, Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL), and political discourse analysis are the subject of Sharifian’s monographs entitled Cultural Conceptualisations and Language (John Benjamins, 2011) and Cultural Linguistics (John Benjamins, 2017).
Professor Sharifian was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Language and Culture, and the Series Editor of Cultural Linguistics book series (Springer), and the founding Series Editor of Routledge Advances in Teaching English as an International Language (Routledge).
He published articles in many edited books and in more than 25 leading international journals.
In his early career Sharifian was an English language teacher in Esfahan.
He moved to Melbourne in 1998 and he completed multiple award winning research (The University Research Medal, Dean's Prize for Outstanding Research, and Western Australian Institute of Education Early Career Medal) at Edith Cowan University in 2003.
He was awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship by the Australian Research Council in 2003, based at the University of Western Australia.
In 2014 he was elected as the President of Applied Linguistics Association of Australia.
Professor Farzad Sharifian's death was announced in a statement by the Australian Linguistic Society on 12 May 2020[2] Sadeghpour M, & Sharifian F. (2019) World Englishes in English language teaching.
Cultural Linguistics and Poetry: The case of Khayyam’s Rubaiyat.
Perception of (im)politeness and underlying cultural conceptualisations.
Conceptualisations of damâ ‘temperature’ in Persian: A Cultural Linguistic Study.
Globalisation and developing meta-cultural competence in learning English as an International Language.
Cultural conceptualizations in intercultural communication: a study of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians.
Figurative language in international political discourse: The case of Iran.
Cultural schemas in L1 and L2 compliment responses: A study of Persian-speaking learners of English.
link Clyne, M. G. and Sharifian, F. (2008) English as an International Language: Challenges and possibilities.
“When stones falls”: A conceptual-functional account of subject-verb agreement in Modern Persian.