A cross-cultural comparison of the requestive speech act realization patterns in Persian and American English

The purpose of this study was to: (a) expand the scope of cross-cultural speech act studies to include a non-western language, (b) to examine similarities and differences in the realization patterns of the speech act of requesting between Persian speakers and American speakers of English, (c) to examine effects related to sex of the speaker on the realization patterns of the requesting speech act, and (d) to examine effects related to social variables of distance and dominance on the realization patterns of requesting speech act in the two cultures.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Eslamirasekh, Zohreh

Contributors dc:contributor

• Maclay, Howard S.

• Education, Bilingual and Multicultural
• Language, Modern

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1992 Eslamirasekh, Zohreh

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9305519
(UMI)AAI9305519

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21720