An Analysis of Iranian EFL Learners’ Dis-preferred Responses in Interactional Discourse
An Analysis of Iranian EFL Learners’ Dis-preferred Responses in Interactional Discourse

Alireza Jalilifar; Roqayeh Dinarvand

Volume 32, Issue 1 , May 2013, , Pages 19-44

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2013.1492

Abstract
  The present study, on the one hand, attempted to investigate the strategies applied in dispreferred responses by Iranian university students of English and the extent to which pragmatic ...  Read More
Cross-Cultural Differences and Pragmatic Transfer in English and Persian Refusals
Cross-Cultural Differences and Pragmatic Transfer in English and Persian Refusals

Mahmood Hashemian

Volume 31, Issue 3 , October 2012, , Pages 23-46

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.620

Abstract
  This study aimed to examine cross-cultural differences in performing refusal of requests between Persian native speakers (PNSs) and English native speakers (ENSs) in terms of the frequency ...  Read More