Hamid Hassani
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Hamid Hasani (born November 23, 1968 in Saqqez (سقّز), Iranian Kurdistan
province
, of Kermanshahi
descent originally, Kermanshah province
, Iran
) is an Iranian scholar and researcher, concentrated on Persian lexicography
, dictionary-making, and Persian corpus linguistics
, also an expert on Persian, Arabic, and Kurdish
prosody
(metrics
/ versification
).
He has published 7 books and more than 70 papers on Persian
, Arabic, and Kurdish language and literature. Hassani also has published some works on Persian lexicography
, corpus
-making, and frequency-concordance
dictionaries
.
He has given three international lectures: two lectures in English
and Persian in Oslo
, Norway
(September 1997, at the University of Oslo
, Blindern
and Kloden Institute, respectively), and a lecture in Persian in Dushanbe
, Tajikistan
(March 2006) at the Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage of the Academy of Sciences.
He lives in Tehran since 1987, and works now at The Academy of Persian Language and Literature
, Department of Terminology
, Tehran, Iran.
B. Papers in Persian:
C. International lectures in Persian and English:
Iranian Kurdistan
Iranian Kurdistan is an unofficial name for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes Kurdistan Province, Kermanshah Province, Ilam Province and parts of West Azerbaijan province....
province
Province
A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...
, of Kermanshahi
Kermanshah
Kermanshah is a city in and the capital of Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 784,602, in 198,117 families.The overwhelming majority of Kermanshahi people are Shi'a Muslims...
descent originally, Kermanshah province
Kermanshah Province
Kermanshah Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. The province was known from 1969 to 1986 as Kermanshahan and from 1986 to 1995 as Bakhtaran.-Counties:...
, Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
) is an Iranian scholar and researcher, concentrated on Persian lexicography
Lexicography
Lexicography is divided into two related disciplines:*Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries....
, dictionary-making, and Persian corpus linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Corpus linguistics is the study of language as expressed in samples or "real world" text. This method represents a digestive approach to deriving a set of abstract rules by which a natural language is governed or else relates to another language. Originally done by hand, corpora are now largely...
, also an expert on Persian, Arabic, and Kurdish
Kurdish language
Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....
prosody
Prosody (linguistics)
In linguistics, prosody is the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech. Prosody may reflect various features of the speaker or the utterance: the emotional state of the speaker; the form of the utterance ; the presence of irony or sarcasm; emphasis, contrast, and focus; or other elements of...
(metrics
Meter (poetry)
In poetry, metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order. The study of metres and forms of versification is known as prosody...
/ versification
Versification
Versification may be*the art of making verses, see poetry*the theory of the phonetic structure of verse, see meter *the rendition of a prose work into verse, especially of classical works during the Middle Ages, see medieval poetry...
).
He has published 7 books and more than 70 papers on Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
, Arabic, and Kurdish language and literature. Hassani also has published some works on Persian lexicography
Lexicography
Lexicography is divided into two related disciplines:*Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries....
, corpus
Corpus linguistics
Corpus linguistics is the study of language as expressed in samples or "real world" text. This method represents a digestive approach to deriving a set of abstract rules by which a natural language is governed or else relates to another language. Originally done by hand, corpora are now largely...
-making, and frequency-concordance
Concordance
Concordance can mean:* Concordance , a list of words used in a body of work, with their immediate contexts* Concordance , the presence of the same trait in both members of a pair of twins...
dictionaries
Dictionary
A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...
.
He has given three international lectures: two lectures in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and Persian in Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
(September 1997, at the University of Oslo
University of Oslo
The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...
, Blindern
Blindern
Blindern is the main campus of the University of Oslo, located in Nordre Aker in Oslo, Norway.-The campus:Most of the departments of the University of Oslo are located at Blindern; other, smaller campuses include Sentrum , Gaustad , St...
and Kloden Institute, respectively), and a lecture in Persian in Dushanbe
Dushanbe
-Economy:Coal, lead, and arsenic are mined nearby in the cities of Nurek and Kulob allowing for the industrialization of Dushanbe. The Nurek Dam, the world's highest as of 2008, generates 95% of Tajikistan's electricity, and another dam, the Roghun Dam, is planned on the Vakhsh River...
, Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....
(March 2006) at the Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage of the Academy of Sciences.
He lives in Tehran since 1987, and works now at The Academy of Persian Language and Literature
Academy of Persian Language and Literature
Iran's Academy of Persian Language and Literature is a body controlled by the Iranian government presiding over the use of the Persian language in Iran and other Persian speaking countries. The academy members are academics of Persian literature and linguistics from , , , and .- History :The...
, Department of Terminology
Terminology
Terminology is the study of terms and their use. Terms are words and compound words that in specific contexts are given specific meanings, meanings that may deviate from the meaning the same words have in other contexts and in everyday language. The discipline Terminology studies among other...
, Tehran, Iran.
Publications and international lectures
A. Books in Persian:- 2009: Published Persian Beginner's Dictionary, (in Persian: Farhang-e Zabān-āmuz-e Fārsi, Sat.h-e Moqaddamāti), with Behruz Safarzadeh, Tehran, Iran Language InstituteIran Language InstituteThe Iran Language Institute is a state-owned, non-profit organization founded in 1979 in Iran with the national mission of developing foreign language learning. The headquarters of this institute is located in Tehran with teaching schools in 32 cities across the country...
(ILI), XVI + 1210 + IV pp; - 2005: Published Persian Today Corpus|The Most Frequent Words of Today Persian, based on a one-million-word corpus (in Persian: Vāže-hā-ye Porkārbord-e Fārsi-e Emruz), Tehran, Iran Language Institute (ILI), 322 pp;
- 2004: Published Arabic Poetry: Prosody and Rhyme (in Persian: `Aruz-o Qāfiyeh-ye `Arabi), Tehran, `Elmi va Farhangui, V + 144 pp;
- 2004: Published Madārej-ol-Balāgheh in Rhetoric (in Persian: Madārej-ol-Balāgheh dar Elm-e Badi`), by Rezā-Qoli Khān Hedāyat, edited and annotated by Hamid Hassani (co-editor: Behruz Safarzadeh), Tehran, The Academy of Persian Language and LiteratureAcademy of Persian Language and LiteratureIran's Academy of Persian Language and Literature is a body controlled by the Iranian government presiding over the use of the Persian language in Iran and other Persian speaking countries. The academy members are academics of Persian literature and linguistics from , , , and .- History :The...
, XIX + 164 pp; - 2001: Published A GlossaryGlossaryA glossary, also known as an idioticon, vocabulary, or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms...
of Constitution of Islamic Republic of IranConstitution of Islamic Republic of IranThe Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran was adopted by referendum on October 24, 1979, and went into force on December 3 of that year, replacing the Constitution of 1906. It was amended on July 28, 1989. The constitution has been called a "hybrid" of "authoritarian, theocratic and...
(in Persian: Farhang-e Mowzu`i-e Qānun-e Asāsi-e Jomhuri-e Eslāmi-e Irān), Tehran, Rowzaneh 162 pp; - 1998: Published Mer'āt-ol-Khiyāl Who's Who (in Persian: Tazkereh-ye Mer'āt-ol-Khiyāl), by Shir-`Ali Khān Ludi, edited and annotated by Hamid Hassani (co-editor: Behruz Safarzadeh), Tehran, Rowzaneh, XXI + 370 pp;
- 1992: Published Poetry of Nimā-Yooshij (a research on poetic meters and forms of Nimā-Yooshij) (in Persian: Musiqi-e She`r-e Nimā (tahqiq-i dar owzān va qāleb-hā-ye she`ri-e Nimā-Yushij), Tehran: Ketāb-e Zamān 272 pp.
B. Papers in Persian:
- 1991–present: Published more than 70 papers in Persian on Persian, Arabic, and Kurdish language and literature.
C. International lectures in Persian and English:
- 2006: “The One-Million-Word Corpus of Today Persian” (in Persian: “Peykare-ye Yek-Miliyon-Loghati-e Fārsi-e Emruz”, TajikistanTajikistanTajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....
, DushanbeDushanbe-Economy:Coal, lead, and arsenic are mined nearby in the cities of Nurek and Kulob allowing for the industrialization of Dushanbe. The Nurek Dam, the world's highest as of 2008, generates 95% of Tajikistan's electricity, and another dam, the Roghun Dam, is planned on the Vakhsh River...
, Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage of the Academy of Sciences, 5th International Congress of Persian and Tajik Scholars, March 2006; - 1997: “Poetry of Nima-Yooshij, Free Verse or Blank Verse?” (English), Norway, University of OsloUniversity of OsloThe University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...
(BlindernBlindernBlindern is the main campus of the University of Oslo, located in Nordre Aker in Oslo, Norway.-The campus:Most of the departments of the University of Oslo are located at Blindern; other, smaller campuses include Sentrum , Gaustad , St...
), September 1997; - 1997: “Persian Prosody and Necessity of Professional Studies” (in Persian: “'Aruz-e Fārsi va Zarurat-e Tahqiq-e Takhassosi dar An” (Persian), Norway, Oslo, Kloden, September 1997.
Works to be prepared/ to be published
- The Persian Word Bank (بانکِ زبانِ فارسی): a one-hundred-million-word corpus, under preparation.
- The Dari (East Persian)Dari (Eastern Persian)Dari or Fārsī-ye Darī in historical terms refers to the Persian court language of the Sassanids. In contemporary usage, the term refers to the dialects of modern Persian language spoken in Afghanistan, and hence known as Afghan Persian in some Western sources. It is the term officially recognized...
Corpus: a one-million-word corpus, under preparation. - The Tajik LanguageTajik languageTajik, Tajik Persian, or Tajiki, is a variety of modern Persian spoken in Central Asia. Historically Tajiks called their language zabani farsī , meaning Persian language in English; the term zabani tajikī, or Tajik language, was introduced in the 20th century by the Soviets...
Corpus: a one-million-word corpus, under preparation. - The Sorani KurdishSoranîSoranî is the name of a Kurdish language that is spoken in Iran and Iraq. Soranî is one of the main Kurdish languages, which are a branch of the Iranian languages.- Name :...
Corpus: a one-million-word corpus, under preparation.