Given the importance of complimenting and responding to compliments in everyday
interactions, several studies have investigated the strategies used to compliment and also to …

This study explores discourse markers (DMs) as they occur with compliment responses
(CRs) in classroom interactions among Iranian learners of English as a foreign language …

Refusals have been widely examined across languages in the literature. However, few
attempts have been made to elicit both perception and performance data for method …

Speech acts used in doing ta'ārof (Iranian system of politeness) have been conceptualized
in terms of both positive (ie sincere or genuine) and negative (ie ritual or ostensible) …

The present study aimed at investigating the effect of the social variable of education on the
use of compliments and compliment responses in Persian. To this end, a Discourse …

The use of the compliment strategies of Pakistani university students in Pakistan is
investigated in the present study. The quantitative approach is used in this study. The …

The role of cognitive processes in compliment-response (CR) exchanges is an
underdeveloped area of investigation. This article aims to probe whether Persian speakers' …

This study examined the role of culture and age in Canadian and Persian children's moral
evaluations and classifications of lie-and truth-telling in prosocial situations. Two sets of data …

Compliment responses (CRs) as manifestations of social-cultural standards and politeness
varieties of a certain speech community are prevalent types of speech acts which are …

This article reports on a study of English subtitles of Persian Ostensible Offer of Money
(POOM). The first stage of this study involved identifying instances of POOM in Iranian films …