Based on Brown & Levinson’s politeness theory (1987), this paper sought to explore the negative sub-strategies in English and Persian requests by analyzing subtitles of each British American movie consisting Little Women (2019), The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015), Twilight (2008), New Moon (2009). aim was define frequency applied both languages cultural differences applying them. In addition,...

Audiovisual devices such as satellite and conventional televisions can offer easy access to authentic programs which are considered to be a rich source of language input for SLA (Second Language Acquisition). The immediacy of various audiovisual programs ensures that language learners’ exposure is up-to-date and embedded in the real world of native speakers. In the same line, in the present pap...

This research was conducted with the aim of identifying the gender identity of women in the movies of war period. Four movies of ‘Bashu little stranger’, ‘Gilaneh’ and ‘from Karkhe to the Rhine’ were selected and the kinds of women's identity were identified by using discourse analysis in these movies. In these movies, although women tried to fulfill the expectations of society in the form of t...

Audiovisual devices such as satellite and conventional televisions can offer easy access to authentic programs which are considered to be a rich source of language input for SLA (Second Language Acquisition). The immediacy of various audiovisual programs ensures that language learners’ exposure is up-to-date and embedded in the real world of native speakers. In the same line, in the present pap...

The ultimate goal of this paper is to compare speak with talk in four corpora. In the Movie Corpus (Movie (MC). 20, January 2022. Online https://english-corpora.org /movies/), was preferable films six countries (America, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland). It worth mentioning that (2,620 tokens) (18,667 most preferred types 2010s. TV (TV (TVC). /tv/), countries’ Ireland) programs....