The present study aimed to identify strategies used to realize the speech act of offerin Persian. To do so, 195 male and female native Persian speakers were selected fromdiverse age ranges, educational backgrounds, and social classes, and were assigned a36-item Discourse Completion Task (DCT) to elicit the speech act of offer. Thirtyfield workers also recorded naturally occurring interactions c...

The study of compliments has attracted the attention of many scholars (e.g., Goffman 1971; Lakoff 1973; Brown and Levinson 1978; Amouzadeh 2001; Golato 2002; Sharifian 2005) and has become a major issue in the area of interactional sociolinguistics. To date, many models of politeness have been put forward in the literature. In this study, Brown and Levinson’s (1978, 1987) politeness model was u...

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...

briefly (Austin’s Speech Act Theory, which claims that language use can be equated with performing actions linguistically; and Grice’s Cooperative Principle and concomitant conversational maxims (cf. Reading 1.2), which espouse the view that language use involves rational inferential processes). Other concepts that are presupposed include the following. An Adjacency Pair (cf. Reading 1.1) is a ...

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 current study was carried out to investigate the functions of the ritual speech act of ‘ya Allah’ (literally meaning ‘O God’) employed by Iranians in social interactions. To this end, sixty-two Persian native speakers of different age groups, ranging from 35 to 85, of both genders were observed in 250 natural situations such as daily interactions, gatherings, public or private places and lo...