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...

Without knowing the speech act functions, it would be difficult to make correct requests in a language. Studies in pragmalinguistics have shown that conventionally direct and indirect requestive patterns are perceived differently in different speech communities. This study investigates the perception of the requestive speech acts by Persian native speakers to determine the socially appropriate ...

The past decade has seen the rapid development of a new approach to pragmatics that attempts integrate insights from formal and experimental semantics pragmatics, psycholinguistics, computational cognitive science in study meaning: probabilistic pragmatics. most influential is Rational Speech Act (RSA) framework. In this review, I demonstrate basic mechanics commitments RSA as well some its sta...

this essay examines greetings as one of the elements of politeness in a nigerian community and how it influences the cultural characteristics of the people. to analyze, this essay makes use of speech act theory and politeness principle and also considers the pragmatic context in analyzing different types of greetings such as condolences, departure and arrival, rejoicing, daily greetings, casual...