Gender and the Vatican

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

In the Vatican

VATICAN CITY [AP) • Pope John Paul I assumed the throne of St. Peter and leadership of the world's 700 million Roman Catholics yesterday in solemn, outdoor rite marked by the simplicity already a hall-mark of his papacy. Breaking more than 1,000 years of tradition, the 65-year-old pontiff donned a simple white wool stole as the shepherd of his flock and concelebrated his inaugural Mass with the...

investigating the effect of motivation and attitude towards learning english, learning style preferences and gender on iranian efl learners proficiency

تحقیق حاضر به منظور بررسی تاثیر انگیزه و نگرش نسبت به یادگیری زبان انگلیسی، ترجیحات سبک یادگیری و جنسیت بر بسندگی فراگیران ایرانی زبان انگلیسی انجام شد. برای این منظور، 154 فراگیر ایرانی زبان انگلیسی در این تحقیق شرکت کردند. سه ابزار جمع آوری داده ها شامل آزمون تعیین سطح بسندگی زبان انگلیسی آکسفورد، پرسشنامه ترجیحات سبک یادگیری براچ و پرسشنامه انگیزه و نگرش نسبت به یادگیری زبان انگلیسی به م...

The Vatican Versus Freud

out of the minds of the monks he has had psychoanalysed by a distinguished Jewish woman, but also how to purge his own brain of such poison. The man is Gregoire Lemercier, the sixth of an artillery officer's thirteen children who feared his father and at the same time wanted to emulate him. When he became a priest he transferred his complex to God. His autoanalytical sermons bloom with double f...

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