The  current  study  investigated  the  expression  of  disagreement  by  Iranian  advanced  English learners.  The  data  for  the  study  comprised  the  recorded  discussions  of  26  male  and  female interlocutors  in  three  different  settings:  1)  language  institute,  2)  home  environment,  and  3) university  setting.  Analysis  of  the  arguments  pointed  to  the  influence  of  c...

This paper presents a study on the realization of speech rhythm in native and nonnative Polish. The paper examines the usefulness of %V-ΔC and nPVI-rPVI metrics for rhythm analysis in native and non-native speech and their efficiency in capturing speaker idiosyncrasies in the realization of rhythm. The metric scores are also used to investigate the effect of speakers’ L1 (German or Korean) on t...

The age of criminal responsibility of children in the Islamic Penalties Act has been determined as religious Bulugh (puberty) Nasab. According to this, criminal authorities hold girls criminally liable and punishable at 9 complete lunar years and boys at 15 complete lunar years. Unfortunately, our legislator has set criminal responsibility of children based on sexual maturity; therefore, thousa...

This article examines the types of speech acts produced by intermediate Spanish learners as well as their selection of pragmalinguistic forms to communicate these acts. In contrast to much of the research on speech acts and pragmatics in interlanguage which has emphasized learner errors in comparison to native speakers, this study primarily examines what learners are able to produce, and it doe...

This essay examines greetings as one of the elements of politeness in a Nigerian community and how it influences the cultural characteristics of the people. To analyze, this essay makes use of speech act theory and politeness principle and also considers the pragmatic context in analyzing different types of greetings such as condolences, departure and arrival, rejoicing, daily greetings, casual...

The article represents the results of a phonetic experiment devoted to study pragmatically, and stylistically determined manifestation directive speech acts in modern German language. allowed establishing prosodic invariant act describing variant patterns realized diverse situational conditions which demonstrated different degree categoricalness revealed their differential character on level ex...

This study aimed to explain the assertive illocutionary speech of Minangkabau cultural leaders in context a monologue termed Pitaruah Ayah, containing values wrapped metaphorical speech. research refers Searle’s act theory and descriptive qualitative methods were used. Data collected from records all speeches through transcription in-depth interviews. analyzed using agitated equivalent method o...