| Yahya Modarresi Tehrani | |
| Birth Date: | 1945 |
| Birth Place: | Tehran |
| Fields: | linguistics |
| Workplaces: | Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (I.H.C.S.) |
| Education: | University of Kansas (PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Modern Persian |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.proquest.com/openview/5744146b22b06401c754dfe0a1de2678/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y |
| Thesis Year: | 1978 |
| Academic Advisors: | David A. Dinnen Michael M. T. Henderson |
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Yahya Modarresi Tehrani (fa|یحیی مدرسی تهرانی; born 1945) is an Iranian linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (I.H.C.S.), Tehran, Iran. He is best known for his works on sociolinguistics. He won the Iranian Book of the Year Award for his book An Introduction to Sociolinguistics.[1] [2]