abstract pragmatics is the study of communicative action in its sociocultural context. communicative action includes not only using speech acts (such as apologizing, complaining, complimenting, and requesting), but also engaging in different types of discourse and participating in speech events of varying length and complexity. the present study aimed to investigate the assessment of pragm...

Background and Objective: Today, knowledge, as a new organizational intangible asset, is the most important asset of organizations. Improving the performance of the organization's human resources, which will ultimately lead to the development of the organization, depends on several factors, the most important of which are knowledge capital and intellectual management. In this regard, this study...

Today, the creation and management of knowledge assets play a decisive role in maintaining the viability and value creation of universities. However, it seems still no agreement has been formed on the most fundamental knowledge assets that generally are intangible. The existing understandings of knowledge assets of universities which are generally partial, personal and not tested, have failed t...

“any science seeks generalities; the aim is to transcend knowledge of particular cases by discovering general regularities or laws” (chesterman, 2001, p. 1). these were the words of chesterman whose paper has served as a typical example of numerous papers carried out on ‘translation universals’ since the mid-nineties. blum-kulka (1986) is among translation studies scholars who proposed ‘explici...

Knowledge assets and intellectual capital are the major leverages for profitability and maintaining competitive advantages of corporations in today’s knowledge-based world. The difference between book value and market value of corporations, specifically since 1980’s onwards, which is analytically attributed to increased corporate investments in intellectual capital, indicates the importance of ...

Background and Aim: Nowadays, organizations significantly emphasize on different aspects and dimensions of knowledge and intellectual capitals. Knowledge and information are power and each individual equipped with them is powerful. Thus attention to knowledge and intellectual capitals for reaching to Psychological Empowerments in each organization is necessary and inevitable. The aim of this re...

  In the knowledge-based economy, intellectual capital is used to create value for organizations. Organizations seek to create, manage, expand and exploit optimal intellectual capital in terms of organizational value creation and business process improvement. Considering the competitiveness of the present age seems that banks must improve their performance to achieve their goals and perform th...