Request Strategies in Everyday Interactions of Persian and English Speakers

Cross-cultural studies of speech acts in different linguistic contexts might have interesting implications for language researchers and practitioners. Drawing on the Speech Act Theory, the present study aimed at conducting a comparative study of request speech act in Persian and English. Specificall...

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Main Authors: Shiler Yazdanfar, Alireza Bonyadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-12-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016679473