Hamid Allami
English Department, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran
[ 1 ] - A comparative sociopragmatic analysis of wedding invitations in American and Iranian societies and teaching implications
Wedding invitations (WIs), as a uniquely socially and culturally constructed genre, provide a distinct opportunity to compare the sociocultural values of different speech communities as reflected in the textual content and organization of the different moves. Students can be exposed to this genre and its different moves using a genre-based pedagogy. Genre-based ped...
[ 2 ] - A Sociopragmatic Analysis of Compliment Responses in Persian
This paper reports on the findings of a study designed to investigate the cultural and social complexities governing the compliment responses among the Persian native speakers. 200 Persian respondents took a 24-item Discourse Completion Task (DCT) while 15 native field workers were also set responsible for collecting the examples of complimenting exchanges they either observed or participated i...
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