Hate speech is a phenomenon that affects communication and undermines multicultural society by disrupting intercultural engagement. The internet’s euphoria allows media around the world to witness troubling rise of vitriolic language. Moving beyond Euro-America hate phenomenon, cross-cultural nuanced ethnography has evolved in Malaysia. Therefore, challenge protecting against discrimination, de...

The current study was carried out to investigate the functions of the ritual speech act of ‘ya Allah’ (literally meaning ‘O God’) employed by Iranians in social interactions. To this end, sixty-two Persian native speakers of different age groups, ranging from 35 to 85, of both genders were observed in 250 natural situations such as daily interactions, gatherings, public or private places and lo...

This paper presents an acoustic description of the production plain uvular /q/ in speech eight speakers South Bolivian Quechua. While this sound patterns phonologically as a stop, its primary realization is voiced continuant. Variation documented with respect to segmental and prosodic position. Segmentally, continuant most common intervocalically after rhotic, while voiceless comparatively more...

Politeness is a phenomenon which is common to all cultures. Each culture has a different perception of what is polite and each language has various devices for expressing politeness. One of the important aspects of politeness which is the central focus of many studies is the polite behaviors of men and women. The focus of this study is on the politeness strategies of males and females from diff...

This  study  examined  the  effects  of  individual  difference  (ID)  factors  on  changing  pragmatic abilities  among  L2  learners  of  English.  Participants  were  48  Japanese  EFL  students  in  an English-medium  university  in  Japan.  They  completed  a  pragmatic  speaking  test  (k=12)  that assessed  their  ability  to  produce  two  speech  acts:  requests  and  opinions,  in  hi...