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...

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...

The present study examines the variables of gender and relationship status as a function of one component of Facebook activity, viz., the percentage of birthday greetings a Facebook user received. Information regarding birth date, relationship status (single or in a relationship) number of friends, and number of birthday wishes received were obtained from the profiles of 200 Facebook users, 100...

It requires knowledge and a team effort for publication of a journal. The various disciplines and specialties that are imbibed in dentistry make the journal appealing. The emphasis of the journal is to conduct and report high level research that has clinical relevance and educates one and all. It updates us on the latest trends in patient management and the newer advances as well as provides a ...

This article reports on a study of the use and form of greetings and closings in the emails of two New Zealand workplaces: an educational organization and a manufacturing plant. Using discourse analytic techniques, 515 emails were analyzed and a number of differences were identified. In the educational organization, where restructuring has resulted in low staff morale and a mistrust of manageme...

A multiple baseline design across participants was used to determine how teacher greetings affected on-task behavior of 3 middle school students with problem behaviors. Momentary time sampling was used to measure on-task behavior during the first 10 min of class. Teacher greetings produced increases in students' on-task behavior from a mean of 45% in baseline to a mean of 72% during the interve...

This study investigates to what extent greetings on a social network site popular with South Asians are associated with the degree of interpersonal closeness of the users, educated middle class Bengalis in the United States. Computer-mediated discourse analysis, face-toface interviews, and participant observation were employed to analyze the textual comments exchanged in 79 Bengali dyads. The a...

I am very happy to have been asked to be a part of this kick-off newsletter. It comes at the most perfect of times. The Holiday season is a terrific opportunity to reflect on our achievements during 2016. And I am proud to say that there are many reasons to celebrate. First, through your hard work, motivation and dedication, our residency program is by all metrics, the best in New Jersey and on...

Greetings to all: An eventful year has passed, and a New Year full of hope and dreams—2018—has come. In 2017, 116 of superb articles were published, including 8 review articles, 98 original articles, 8 editorials, and 2 letters. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the researchers who have contributed high-quality papers, into which they invested countless hours of tiring and hard wo...