This paper examines impoliteness in ancient Greek, taking into account the linguistic structure of silencers and dismissals, their communicative functions gender distribution three comedies by Aristophanes. Silencers dismissals serve a number different goals: reinforcing disagreement, creating comic effect, advancing plot. We will analyse possibilities that speakers have at disposal to express ...

from applied linguistic point of view, the fundamental question facing the language teachers, methodologists and course designers is which procedure is more effective in fl/sl: learning to use or using to learn? definitely, in order to be a competent language user, knowledge of language system is necessary, but it is not sufficient to be a successful language user. that is why there was a gradu...