This study intends to investigate how Iranian EFL learners utilize suggestion speech act. To
this end, 150 Iranian English learners took part in this research and completed a DCT …

Recent research in interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) has substantiated that some aspects of
pragmatics are amenable to instruction in the second or foreign language classroom …

The lack of knowledge about impolite disagreement strategies can result in
misunderstanding and consequently lead to an unsuccessful process of communication …

This study aims to explore the use of disagreement strategies in two Arabic dialects:
Jordanian and Algerian Arabic. It also investigates the effect of social status on the choice of …

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 …

The present study positions a research on the speech act of suggestion by Iranian native
speakers of Farsi. The primary objectives of this study are to examine Iranian Farsi speakers' …

This paper outlines an attempt to research the speech act of suggestion of ELT students
majoring at a state university in Turkey. A written discourse completion task (WDCT) and a …

Purpose of study: This is a pragmatic study dealing with the speech act of disagreement at
the production level. The aim of the study is to investigate whether gender (the independent …

The term speech act has been used by Crystal (1992: 362) to refer to a communicative
activity defined with reference to the intentions of a speaker while speaking and the effects …

Objectives: This study analyzed how Filipino and Chinese individuals express
disagreements on Facebook, focusing on gender dynamics. It further investigated the …