Iman Sheydaei Baghdadeh

Research Interests

Degrees and Institutions

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Recent Publications

Sheydaei, Iman. 2024. Ethnolinguistic communities: The physical visibility of MENA Americans and the local
enregisterment of Dearborn English. Genealogy 8, 41.
https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8020041

Sheydaei, Iman. 2024. Ethnic visibility and ethnolinguistic repertoires: Dearborn English and the hijab. Proceedings of
the Linguistic Society of America 9(1), 5669. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5669

Sheydaei, Iman. 2024. Dearborn English: An ethnolinguistic repertoire for MENA Americans. Linguistic Geography 12 (2).

Sheydaei, Iman. 2023. The Low-Back-Merger Shift: Evidence from MENA Americans in the Upper Midwest and southern California: MENA Americans and the Low‑Back‑Merger Shift. English Today. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078423000299[Opens in a new window]

Sheydaei, Iman. 2023. Ethnic Rootedness and Social Affiliations at the Interface with Linguistic Performativity: Evidence from Americans of Southwest Asian or North African Descent. Languages 9(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9010004

Sheydaei, Iman. 2021. Gender identity and non-binary pronoun use: Exploring reference strategies for referents of
unknown gender. Gender & Language 15(3), 369–393. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.18871