this study was an attempt to investigate iranian and spanish intermediate nonnative english learners’ request strategies to their faculty. to this aim, 74 (50 iranian and 24 spanish) nonnative english intermediate learners participated in this study. a discourse completion test (dct) was used to elicit the request strategies used by the participants. the findings suggested the participants empl...

Although studies on pragmatics in general and politeness in particular abound in the literature, impoliteness has been largely ignored. In the present study, participants filled out either the Persian or English version of a discourse completion test (DCT). The researchers analyzed collected answers to discover the relationship between impoliteness and power. Furthermore, the researchers compar...

This qualitative research aims to find out the strategies used by students in giving and receiving compliments. The participants were graduate of English language education at Syiah Kuala University. In collecting data, researcher Discourse Completion Task (Henceforth called DCT) framework Xiang (2013). carried an interview adapted from Fattah (2020) elicit participants’ understanding conveying...

although studies on pragmatics in general and politeness in particular abound in the literature, impoliteness has been largely ignored. in the present study, participants filled out either the persian or english version of a discourse completion test (dct). the researchers analyzed collected answers to discover the relationship between impoliteness and power. furthermore, the researchers compar...

This study was an attempt to investigate Iranian and Spanish intermediate nonnative English learners’ request strategies to their faculty. To this aim, 74 (50 Iranian and 24 Spanish) nonnative English intermediate learners participated in this study. A discourse completion test (DCT) was used to elicit the request strategies used by the participants. The findings suggested the participants empl...

The study compares how native speakers of German from the area Innsbruck (Austria) and Italian Rome (Italy) perceive communicative act backing out an invitation for dinner at last minute, in a situation low social distance. purpose is twofold: to shed light on orientation Austrian languages/cultures terms linguistic politeness, expand empirical cross-cultural research less-commonly investigated...

Abstract This study aims to explore the use of euphemistic strategies by Algerians and Americans when dealing with three unpleasant topics: death, lying, disease. It also examines effect degree formality on strategies. To achieve this objective, a discourse completion task (DCT) was distributed 21 Americans. The data were analysed using SPSS. analysis revealed that there are some differences si...

Refusal is one of the most complicated challenges for hearer, as a face-threatening act, which influenced by social factors such gender. Thus, main purpose study to investigate role gender on speech acts refusal comparing performance English foreign language (EFL) learners and second (ESL) learners, males females. EFL ESL students’ data were collected using an online written Discourse Completio...