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 this paper after reviewing the necessity of scientific decision making, the multiple decision making models and the analytical hierarchy process are briefly defined as the techniques for decision making in human judgment. Then, considering the importance of inconsistency in analytical hierarchy process, the modified version of least square method is used to obtain the overall priority of alt...

Life skills and its training to individuals is one of the major factors for mental health development in community. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practice of the first three life skills priorities among third grade high school girls in terms of planning for the students’ educational programs. In a descriptive study, we first selected 200 respondents amon...

it is definitely necessary to understand the concept and behavior of causation of life insurance policies and its determinants for insurance managers, regulators, and customers. for insurance managers, the profitability and liquidity of insurers can be increasingly influenced by the number of causation through costs, adverse selection, and cash surrender values. therefore, causation is a materi...

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...