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Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
About Kourosh Safavi
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- Kourosh Safavi (Persian: ???? ?????; born 27 June 1956, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian linguist, translator and university professor.
- He is the vice-president of Linguistics Society of Iran and a leading professor in Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.
- His activities revolve around semantics, semiotics, history of linguistics and the relationship between linguistics and literature.One of the most prolific writers and translators on linguistics, Safavi has authored renowned books such as An Introduction to Linguistics, Wandering in the Philosophy of Literature, Logic in Linguistics, Literature from Linguistics Standpoint, Acquaintance with Written Systems, Introduction to the History of Iranian Languages, and Applied Semantics.
- He also has translated many books into Persian written by notable linguists and writers such as Noam Chomsky (Language and Mind and Language and Thought), Roman Jakobson, Ferdinand de Saussure (Course in General Linguistics), Hösle , Goethe (West-östlicher Diwan) and Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World).
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