Cross-cultural analyses of speech acts are among the hot topics in contrastive studies and up to now various researchers have explored this very issue. Despite the ample studies in this field, the speech act of congratulation, especially the subject of ‘birthday congratulation’ remains untouched. The study investigates the possible effects of being an Iranian or an American typical Facebook use...

COMMUNICATION "Every cultural pattern and every single act of social behaviour involves communication in either an explicit or implicit sense"(Edward Sapir)-Communication is culture, culture is communication ROMAN JACOBSON ON COMMUNICATION: " meaning resides in the total act of communication. It is not a stable, predetermined entity which passes, untrammeled, from sender to receiver "-depending...

in recent years, two positive and effective developments have occurred in iran's legal system regarding the realization of the rights belonging to disabled people. in 1999, the comprehensive act for protection of rights of disabled persons was adopted; and in 2009, iran joined the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. the present paper studies the obligations of the islami...

this study attempted to investigate the effect of bilingualism on pragmaticawareness and development among iranian turkish/persian efl learners. data werecollected through a personal profile questionnaire with questions about theparticipants’ language background and a wdct with 10 situations to determine theextent to which the bilinguals demonstrated their pragmatic awareness of requests.they w...

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...

speech emotion recognition (ser) is a new and challenging research area with a wide range of applications in man-machine interactions. the aim of a ser system is to recognize human emotion by analyzing the acoustics of speech sound. in this study, we propose spectral pattern features (sps) and harmonic energy features (hes) for emotion recognition. these features extracted from the spectrogram ...

Refusing to participate in an action is a negative response that might lead dispute and jeopardise the connection between hearer speaker. To avoid conflict may arise when speaker must decline request, offer acceptable refusal adjust position of interlocutor as well circumstances situation. This study examined strategies sequence order employed by Malay speakers English second language (MSE) the...

This study attempted to investigate the effect of bilingualism on pragmaticawareness and development among Iranian Turkish/Persian EFL learners. Data werecollected through a personal profile questionnaire with questions about theparticipants’ language background and a WDCT with 10 situations to determine theextent to which the bilinguals demonstrated their pragmatic awareness of requests.They w...