this study aims to examine how iranian efl learners perceive and apply mitigation devices in request speech act in 4 asymmetrical situations. role-play interactions and questionnaires were used to elicit the required data from iranian informants (male vs. female). the results obtained from the analysis of data revealed that in identical situations, male requestors were comparably more certain t...

The present study aimed to review the instruction of the L2 speech acts in English pragmatics in the Iranian context during the last two decades from 2000 to 2020. To this end, upon the completion of the study search, the retrieved articles were selected and analyzed based on the research domain.  The results of our synthesis from 54 studies carried out on the instruction of the speech act not ...

We present first results of our project on the generation of contextually adequate greeting exchanges in video role playing games. To make greeting exchanges computable, an analysis of the factors influencing greeting behavior as well as the factors influencing greeting exchanges is given. Based on the politeness model proposed by Brown & Levinson (1987) we develop a simple algorithm for the ge...

The acceptance of trolling as a feature internet communication and the clustering together behaviors that range from playfulness to abusive bullying under term “trolling” has interesting moral implications. For it seems sometimes such behavior is dismissed “mere trolling” consequently trolls who perform these acts are granted partial exemption responsibility for content or consequences their sp...

The study aimed to find out the women's representation of Sima Bahous' speech entitled "Looking Forward a Future Gender Equality" by applying Mills' discourse analysis perspective, such as subject-object position, reader and writer-reader position. presence UN Women organization is new step source hope for women fighting gender equality empowerment. Bahous, woman behind Women, contributed impro...

The article analyzes the research on diagnosis of speech development among children with autism spectrum disorders. It is taken into account that a comprehensive idea state and features child's formation as means communication can be obtained only in process examination analysis his or her activity. proved majority diagnostic techniques are not suitable for use diagnosing level autistic childre...

the purpose of this study was to examine cook’s (2003) ‘multiple competence’ by investigating backward pragmatic transfer (from l2 [english] to l1 [persian]) in refusals to invitations. it explored participants’ frequency and content of refusal strategies in l1 regarding the status (i.e., power and distance) of interlocutors and the proficiency level of efl learners. the participants were persi...