as some definitions show, idioms are expressions whose meanings cannot be obtained from individual words. in every society, people use their own conceptions and feelings through different idioms and expressions. so every culture and society has their own idioms. some scholars proposed methods for translating idioms but baker’s strategies are very important and constructive. this research tried ...

the present study was carried on to investigate the use of face-keeping strategies in reaction to complaints by male and female in two different cultures, persian and american english. to see if apology strategies are affected by cultural, contextual preferences and gender of interlocutors in two distinct languages of persian and american english. the hypotheses to be tested were 1) ifids, acce...

the aim of this study was to identify the problems of translating markedness structures from english to persian in order to look closely at what possible difficulties translators may face. it also seeks to probe the strategies applied accordingly by iranian translators in translating them. from three translation of blindness novel, the sentences with marked structures were elicited and also the...

تحقیق حاضر کوششی بود در جهت (الف) مشخص نمودن استراتژیهایی که دانشجویان و دانش آموزان ایرانی برای یادگیری زبان انگلیسی بطور عام و یادگیری واژگان بطور خاص مورد استفاده قرار می دهند، (ب) پیدا کردن ارتباط معنادار مابین استراتژیهای یادگیری زبان انگلیسی و واژگان انگلیسی از یک طرف و سطح توانایی زبانی فراگیران از طرف دیگر. (ج) پی بردن به تغییرات معناداری که بواسطه سن، جنس ، قومیت ، سالهای یادگیری زبان ...