The present study sought to investigate the translation strategies in an American sitcom in Iranian EFLclasses with emphasis on politeness. The participants were 50 male and female Iranian undergraduateB.A. and M.A. students majoring in English Translation, and English language teaching at the IslamicAzad University, North Tehran. The participants were administered three tests. A multiple choic...

Earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. Apart from Mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, Taiwo (2007), Adetunji (2009), and Ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...

The purpose of the present study is to compare the impoliteness strategies employed by Iranian and English students in English and Persian Languages. The participants consisted of 6o Iranian EFL learners at intermediate level of language proficiency, 60 Iranian non-English major students, and 212 native English-speaking students. The data were collected through an open-ended questionnaire in th...

PPKM (Enforcement of Restrictions on Community Activities) is one the government's policies in context tackling Covid-19 pandemic 2021-2022. This policy was responded to various ways by community, both positive and negative ways. The responses include use sarcastic words for acronym, different from its original meaning. Sarcasm pragmatic studies considered a form language impoliteness because i...

Interactional positioning has to do with how people express their attitudes and dispositions others (stance) signal they wish relate other participants in the discourse (engagement). These are closely connected extent which impoliteness is expressed resources strategies employed. This study investigates interactional two Nigerian political discussion sites, Nairaland Forum Gistmania. The findin...