Without knowing the speech act functions, it would be difficult to make correct requests in a language. Studies in pragmalinguistics have shown that conventionally direct and indirect requestive patterns are perceived differently in different speech communities. This study investigates the perception of the requestive speech acts by Persian native speakers to determine the socially appropriate ...

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in this paper we introduce condition (e?p) a generalization of conditions (e?), (e) and (p) of acts over monoids and will give a classification of monoids by comparing this condition of their (rees factor) acts with other properties. we give also a criterion of cyclic acts to satisfy condition (e?p).

abstract textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) context where it provides the primary linguistic input. the present research was an attempt to comparatively evaluate the touchstone series in terms of compliment and complaint speech acts. four touchstone textbooks (book 1, book 2, book 3, and book 4) were selec...