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 ...

abstract in aggregate, active forms of reactive silica with mineral names are sometimes associated with sand and gravel in concrete mixture. alkali hydroxides originated from alkalis in the cement or other resources form an alkaline silica gel with this reactive silica which becomes swallowed and expanded during time causing damage to concrete. there have been growing researches on alkaline r...

On-the-job training in organizations is one of the methods of empowering the staff such trainings are gradually inclined to electronic ones due to the development of technology. One of the criticisms leveled against organizational trainings is their ineffectuality and many believe that the new approach can make it much more effective. The current article aims at making an investigation into the...