In order to communicate accurately and fluently, learners need know how produce different speech acts inside outside the classroom context. Refusal act is complicated, performing refusals successfully needs a higher level of pragmatic competence (Eslami, 2010). This study done in analyze refusal its responses among Iranian EFL learners. The participants this are 120 advanced These provided with...

Following Beebe, Takahashi, and Uliss-Weltz’s (1990) classification, this study examines the relationship between power and gender of the addressees and the type and number of refusal strategies employed by Sarawani Baloch male university students (SBMUS). Fifty SBMUS studying in Azad University of Sarawan were randomly chosen as the participants of the study. Data collection was accomplished t...

To date, little research on pragmatic transfer has considered a multilingual situation where there is an interaction among three different languages spoken by one person. Of interest was whether pragmatic transfer of refusals among three languages spoken by the same person occurs from L1 and L2 to L3, L1 to L2 and then to L3 or from L1 and L1 (if there are more than one L1) to L2. This study ai...

Commissive speech acts are that bind the speaker to carry out what is stated in speech. This research aims analyze types and functions of commisives used by characters Knives Out movie. The method this qualitative descriptive which instrument researcher herself. utterances were classified based on theory proposed Searle (1985) Austin (1969). found movie into six act: promise, guarantee, refusal...

condolence is part of austin’s expressive speech act and is related to searle’s behabitives illocutionary act. although a theoretically sound issue in pragmatics, condolence speech act has not been investigated as much as other speech acts in discourse-related studies. this paper aims at investigating interjections and intensifiers while performing condolence speech act among persian and englis...

this study was an attempt to shed light on the use of requestive speech act by iranian nonnative speakers (nnss) of english and canadian native speakers (nss) of english to find out the (possible) similarities and/or differences between the request realizations, and to investigate the influence of the situational variables of power, distance, context familiarity, and l1’s (possible) influence. ...