The main objective of the present study is to elaborate the contrasts between males and females in their use of different strategies of request in English and Persian and ascertain the degree to which independent variables like gender and language affect the application of these strategies during informal communication.Furthermore, it offers comparable corpora which provide a good basis for cro...

The aim of the study is a contextual and interpretive analysis mitigation strategies request promise which are followed up in personage speech English fictional discourse. subject article establishing means that implement (namely, request), taking into account aspect communication situation on samples from findings research illustrate how outlined (mitigation request) manifested results show st...

This research aimed to investigate the types of request strategies used by characters in movie Silver Linings Playbook (2012). It also identified goals made characters. The data were taken from dialogues movie, which contained utterances. then classified into nine strategy according Blum-Kulka and Olshtain (1984), followed classification four theory proposed et al. (1985, as cited Forgas, 1985,...

To achieve overall business goals, GQM+Strategies® is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies and assesses the achievement of goals. Strategies derived from business goals are based on rationales (context factors and assumptions). Because extracting all rationales is an important process in the GQM+Strategies approach, we propose Context-Assumpt...

Conservation tillage (CT) systems have a number of potential benefits including lower crop production costs and the ability to reduce soil erosion that have made them common in several regions of the world. Although CT systems have been researched and successfully implemented on some farms in California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV), overall adoption is low and the reasons for the region's compara...

The present study aimed to analyze reprint request e-mail messages written by postgraduates (MA students) of two fields of study, namely Physics and EFL, to realize the differences and similarities between the two email types. To investigate the purpose of the study, a sample of 100 e-mail messages, 50 Physics and 50 EFL, were analyzed according to Swales’ (1990) model for reprint requests and ...