the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...

the present paper deals with criminal issues. for example, legal injunction on the necessity of returning a deposit has a legal nature and legal injunction on the punishment of those who breach the trust has a criminal nature. existing social issues are the basis of classification of some instances into the issue, some of which are based on variation and others on quality. therefore, the motiva...

iv abstract this study examined the linguistic behaviors of two iranian efl teachers each of them teaching learners of two similar proficiency levels, a beginner level and an intermediate level, to investigate the relationship between the learners proficiency levels and the amounts and purposes for l1 use by the two teachers. the study was carried out to investigate whether there were differe...

Background: Divorce has always been one of the five main issues in the country and one of the criteria for community health. Therefore the purpose of this study is to investigate quantitative and qualitative researches on the factors affecting divorce through systematic review. Method: The research community includes all the quantitative and qualitative articles published (2006-2016) regarding...

this study investigates the strategies native english and persian speakers employ for expressing gratitude in different situations. the strategies of persian efl learners are also compared with english strategies in order to find the differences that may exist between these two languages. social status and size of imposition of the favor are social variables which are investigated in detail for...

The present study, with a futuristic approach, identifies the most important factors affecting the future status of sustainable tourism in Yazd province and examines the extent and manner of these factors on each other. This research was applied in terms of its purpose and in terms of a combination of documentary and survey methods, and in terms of its nature, based on new methods of futuristic...

The present study aims to investigate the contextual, environmental and strategies capacities making the countrychr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('39')))s sports were done. The research method was mixed (qualitative-quantitative), in the qualitative part the phenomenological method was used and in the quantitative part the descriptive-survey method was used. The statistical samp...