Dr. Barile, Chairman, International Organization for Mycoplasmology, Dr. Kumagi, President, Japanese Association of Medical Sciences and Professor Emeritus of University of Tokyo, and Ladies and Gentlemen: It is our great pleasure to have the Fourth International Congress of the IOM (International Organization for Mycoplasmology) meet here in Japan and to have so many scientists and their famil...

this study aimed to investigate the effects of economic status and level of education on the choice of address terms by iranian couples in shahrekord, iran. to this end, 50 couples were selected, based on their educational and economic statuses, and were studied in terms of their choice of address terms. a discourse completion task was used as the data elicitation technique and chi-square was c...

this study aims at ascertaining a framework that would account for the persian data. we scrutinize all data occurring in the selected corpus, and describe how they usually work on the basis of the two following variables: power and intimacy. according to our investigation, the use of terms of address in persian is affected by age, sex, occupation, ideology, political and social position of the ...