this study examined naturally-occurring university classroom interactions at iranian universities and provided an analysis of silence patterns as politeness strategies used by male and female students. since empirical studies of silence in classroom settings are scarce, this paper aimed to explain such phenomena using participant interviews, classroom observation and detailed discourse analysis...

We have developed a computational model of the process of describing the layout of an apartment or house, a much-studied discourse task first character ized linguistically by Linde (1974). The model is embodied in a program, APT, that can reproduce segments of actual tape-recorded descriptions, using organizational and discourse strategies derived through analysis of our

following beebe, takahashi, and uliss-weltz’s (1990) classification, this study examines the relationship between power and gender of the addressees and the type and number of refusal strategies employed by sarawani baloch male university students (sbmus). fifty sbmus studying in azad university of sarawan were randomly chosen as the participants of the study. data collection was accomplished t...

This paper discusses the application of a previously reported theory of explanation rhetoric (Maybury, 1988b) to the task of explaining constraint violations in a hybrid rule/frame based system for resource allocation (Dawson et al, 1987). This research illustrates how discourse strategies of explanation, textual connectives, and additional justification knowledge can be applied to enhance the ...

The present study, on the one hand, attempted to investigate the strategies applied in dispreferred responses by Iranian university students of English and the extent to which pragmatic transfer could occur.  On the other hand, the study aimed to probe into the association between dispreferred organization and turn-shape. To this end, 31 relevant naturally occurring conversations, totaling 120 ...

justice is a fundamental concept in islam. numerous thinkers have reflected upon it. the present article aims to study the meaning of justice from the perspective of al-farabi and ibn khaldun by a qualitative content analysis-based literature review, and in the end, assess their strategies of confronting injustice. it is worth noting that al-farabi and ibn khaldun belong to different historical...

Both hard and soft power are important in promoting China's dominance. It is possible to argue that China has risen significantly terms of economic financial measurement criteria over the last 30 years, developing increasing its power. The nation substantially increased at regional global levels due cultural dimension and, particular, efficient foreign policy. present investigation sought addre...

The paper analyzes the discursive strategies of apparent empathy and ideological polarization that were used to legitimize discrimination against covered female students in Republic Turkey. We approached this complex social problem from point view critical discourse analysis, which represents an interdisciplinary research area centered on interest researching manipulative use language. ban wear...