Are beautiful people better negotiators? In this article, I present evidence from a simple bargaining game in which players listened to prerecorded speeches and viewed the pictures of other players. I found that physically attractive players received a greater share of the surplus when their partners could both listen to their speeches and view their pictures.This effect was strongest when the ...

This study explored how political elites can contribute to power enactment through using language. It started with a theoretical overview of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and then presented a corpus consisting of speeches of eight political elites, namely, Malcolm X, Noam Chomsky, Martin Luther King, Josef Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Winston Churchill, J.F. Kennedy and Adolph Hitler. This stud...

purpose: to assess the english language competence of iranian ophthalmologists and their points of view regarding the need for and importance of holding ophthalmologic congresses in english.   methods: a descriptive-analytic, cross sectional study was conducted during the 17th iranian ophthal-mology congress, tehran. data collection was performed via a standard self administered question-naire....

The present paper investigates linguostylistic features peculiar to celebrities’ award receiving speeches - a public discourse variety of modern English which is popular not only for its social importance but also linguistic and stylistic significance. results the analyses carried out on basis case study methodology show that emotional colouring expressiveness are most typical characteristics a...