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Pishghadam, Reza; Zarei, Sima – English Language Teaching, 2012
Granted the fact that different cultures have different speaking styles, knowledge of these styles can help people grasp the essence of social cultural knowledge to communicate with others more successfully. In this regard, the present paper aims at comparing the use of speech act of gratitude in Persian and Chinese EFL learners and English native…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Chinese, Indo European Languages, North American English
Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2006
In their study in 1990, Clark and Isaacs identified five properties and seven defining features that distinguished between English ostensible and genuine invitations. To see if Persian ostensible and genuine invitations could be distinguished by the same features and properties, the present study was carried out. 45 field workers observed and…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Undergraduate Students, Data Analysis, Friendship