The present study examined the different levels of (im)politeness strategies in expressing request, apology, and refusal speech acts across intermediate and advanced Iranian EFL learners to identify their attitudinal ratings of their produced structures in terms of pragmatic success and (im)politeness mannerism. A discourse completion test including 2 Likert scales on attitudinal appropriatenes...

This article explores some cognitive and aesthetic principles about picture poems. It regards language as a hierarchy of signs: the graphemic string signifies a phonological string, which signifies units of meaning, which signify referents in extralinguistic reality. Our linguistic competence urges us to reach the final referents as fast as possible. Poetic language draws attention to itself, t...

Giulio Romano was a prominent Italian Mannerist architect from Mantua of the Late Renaissance who made significant contribution to development architectural processes and proposed methods interpreting order system used in modern era. The research aims present architect's activity as natural step classical system. systematisation, comparative synchronic analyses were used. study artistic point v...

Continuing the previous research on mannerism in history of European art, primarily book Dnevnik melankolije [The Diary Melancholy] by Dževad Karahasan, this paper tries to understand specific internal contradictions William Shakespeare’s play tension between classical and mannerist experience world. On foundations laid Gustav Rene Hocke his books mannerism, Karahasan examined relationship dram...