This study was an attempt to investigate Iranian and Spanish intermediate nonnative English learners’ request strategies to their faculty. To this aim, 74 (50 Iranian and 24 Spanish) nonnative English intermediate learners participated in this study. A discourse completion test (DCT) was used to elicit the request strategies used by the participants. The findings suggested the participants empl...

Milgram's famous experiment contained 23 small-sample conditions that elicited striking variations in obedient responding. A synthesis of these diverse conditions could clarify the factors that influence obedience in the Milgram paradigm. We assembled data from the 21 conditions (N = 740) in which obedience involved progression to maximum voltage (overall rate 43.6%) and coded these conditions ...

With the aim of designing a spoken dialogue system which has ability to adapt user's communication idiosyncrasies, we investigate whether it is possible carry over insights from usage styles in human-human interaction human-computer interaction. In an extensive literature review, demonstrated that play important role human communication. Using multi-lingual data set, show there significant corr...

The non-deictic that is known to be a non-obligatory element and thus is said to be often deleted. This does not imply it does not have any semantic value; on the contrary, the nondeictic that may indicate the speaker's attitude or his/her vantage point. This function is derived from the function of the demonstrative that and from the iconicity generated by its phonological shape. The non-deict...

When allocating scarce healthcare resources, the expected benefits of alternative allocations matter. But, there are different kinds of benefits. Some are direct benefits to the recipient of the resource such as the health improvements of receiving treatment. Others are indirect benefits to third parties such as the economic gains from having a healthier workforce. This article considers whethe...