“Move away so I can Hear!”- American and Iranian Male University Students’ Responses to Rudeness – A Pilot Study

Although speech acts are universal phenomena which occur in all languages, the realizations of speech acts are culturally-specific. Language learners should not only have linguistic competence, but they should also be aware of the appropriate use of a given function in the target language. In additi...

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review

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