This study aimed to investigate the application of

persuasive strategies among Iranian learners of English

as a foreign language. To this end, 150 Iranian English

learners took part in this study. The ...

Pragmatic impairment is the main cause of communication difficulties in hearing-impaired children and it is obvious that there should be a way to assess their difficulties in order to find out suitable teaching strategies to teach them pragmatic...

This study is an investigation into the speech act of suggestion utilized by Iranian learners of English. To this end, 150 Persian natives and 150 Iranian English learners were asked to complete a Discourse Completion Task ...

The study of speech acts, which investigates an utterance as a functional unit in communication, began to influence greatly the teaching of language use. Numerous studies have been conducted on different kinds of speech ...

This research focuses on the impact of translator’s critical reading (Baker, 2010) on the text which is called translator's preface (as a paratextual element). Translators who have translated the same text may not have the ...

This study intends to conduct a contrastive analysis between English and Persian with regard to suggestion speech act. To this end, some Iranian university students were asked to complete a Discourse Completion Task (DCT) ...