The process of globalization entails the acquisition of a construct, cultural intelligence, with which EFL students can function appropriately in intercultural situations. This study was, first, intended to find the relationship between cultural intelligence and the use of expressions of gratitude by Iranian EFL learners. Second, it sought to determine whether there were any significant differe...

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...

Just as internationalization [i18n] and localization [L10n] do not simply consist of translation of interface components, but also of careful cross-cultural and cross-functional considerations to the cultural sensitivities of the intended source and target languages, similar considerations should be given to those issues in the realization of Semantic Web systems. Specifically, this paper descr...

Hate speech is a phenomenon that affects communication and undermines multicultural society by disrupting intercultural engagement. The internet’s euphoria allows media around the world to witness troubling rise of vitriolic language. Moving beyond Euro-America hate phenomenon, cross-cultural nuanced ethnography has evolved in Malaysia. Therefore, challenge protecting against discrimination, de...

The topic of the present paper concerns cultural translation and focuses on cross-cultural aspect pragmatic equivalence. It is based hypothesis that framework literary work, i.e. deliberate choice tied verbal actions interpretations these actions, forms an important slot in overall structure context displays artistic idea writer. Hence research work clearly shows should adequately transmit inte...

This study examines service encounters in Saudi Arabia from a pragmatic perspective. Its aim is to investigate the possible impact of perceived cultural distance between customers and providers on choices. It specifically how construct their when talking same (versus different) cultural/ethnic background terms discourse structure; strategies request internal modifications, stylistic strategies....

Speech-language pathologists serving multicultural populations may encounter unfamiliar beliefs about speech disorders among the members of different cultures. This study used a questionnaire to look at attitudes toward four disorders (cleft palate, dysfluency, hearing impairment, and misarticulations) among 166 university students representing English-speaking North American culture and severa...

The present study examines sociolinguistic features of a particular speech act, paying compliments, by comparing and contrasting native Chinese and native American speakers' performances. By focusing on a relatively understudied speaker group such as the Chinese, typically regarded as having rules of speaking and social norms very different from those of Westerners, this paper aims at illuminat...

This study investigated the effectiveness of colligational corpus-based instruction on enhancing the pragmalinguistic knowledge of speech act of request among Iranian intermediate EFL learners. The objective of the study was to find out whether or not providing students with corpora through using colligational instruction had any significant effects on enhancing their pragmalinguistic knowledge...