this research intended to determine whether english and persian men and women were different with respect to the use of intensifiers, hedges and tag questions. to conduct the study, r. lakoff's (1975) ideas concerning linguistic differences between males and females were taken into account. in order to gather the most natural-like data, 6 english and 8 persian film• scripts with a family a...

We show how the wide range in strengths of intensifying degree adverbs (e.g. very and extremely) could be explained by pragmatic inference based on differing cost, rather than differing semantics. This predicts a linear relationship between the meaning of intensifiers and their length and log-frequency. We test this prediction in two studies, using two different dependent measures, finding that...

Abstract To analyze the vacuum failure mechanism of low-light-level image intensifiers in depth, outgassing rates and compositions released gases from optical fiber panel photocathode glass used for were investigated by static pressure-rising method residual gas analysis. The investigation results show that rate at a baking temperature 150°C is only about one order magnitude higher than 23°C, w...