This qualitative research aims to find out the strategies used by students in giving and receiving compliments. The participants were graduate of English language education at Syiah Kuala University. In collecting data, researcher Discourse Completion Task (Henceforth called DCT) framework Xiang (2013). carried an interview adapted from Fattah (2020) elicit participants’ understanding conveying...

This study investigated politeness strategies of disagreement expressed by undergraduate Iraqi EFL students in Online Asynchronous Discussions OADs. The data were collected from 100 individuals randomly chosen classes at Mosul university. investigation focused on the impact that gender may have could be used to lessen possibility conflict expressing face-threatening act FTAs. For collection, pa...

This study was an attempt to shed light on the use of requestive speech act by Iranian nonnative speakers (NNSs) of English and Canadian native speakers (NSs) of English to find out the (possible) similarities and/or differences between the request realizations, and to investigate the influence of the situational variables of power, distance, context familiarity, and L1’s (possible) influence. ...

Due to the lack of paralinguistic information, politeness gains a considerable significance in telephone conversations (TCs). The use of politeness strategies can help interlocutors promote and/or maintain social harmony in telephone interactions. Using the Rapport Management Model proposed by Spencer-Oatey (2008), this study intended to primarily investigate the fundamental closing structures ...

The use of politeness strategies can help interlocutors promote and/or maintain social harmony in telephone interactions. Using the Rapport Management Model proposed by Spencer-Oatey (2008), this study aimed primarily to reinvestigate the closing structures of telephone conversation (hereafter abbreviated as TC) in Persian and to discover the common politeness strategies used by native Persian ...

The current paper primarily provides an account of how apology speech acts are internally intensified in Persian. Moreover, the study checks to what extent contextual variables, namely social distance and severity of offense, may motivate the internal intensification of apology speech acts. To these ends, the study collected the required speech acts through a Discourse Completion Test (DCT) fro...

The study compares how native speakers of German from the area Innsbruck (Austria) and Italian Rome (Italy) perceive communicative act backing out an invitation for dinner at last minute, in a situation low social distance. purpose is twofold: to shed light on orientation Austrian languages/cultures terms linguistic politeness, expand empirical cross-cultural research less-commonly investigated...

This study was a cross-sectional investigation into the request strategies used by Iranian learners of English as a Foreign Language and Australian native speakers of English. The sample involved 96 BA and MA Persian students and 10 native speakers of English. A Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was used to generate data related to the request strategies used by each group. Selection of request s...