Publications

Publication details [#56632]

Changizi, Mahsa and Mohammad Aliakbari. 2012. On the realization of refusal strategies by Persian and Kurdish speakers. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 36 (5) : 659–668.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | face maintenance | language and culture | refusing | swearing

Language as a subject

Kurdish | Persian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper explores the use of refusal strategies by Persian and Kurdish speakers (PSs and KSs) as well as semantic formula frequency and shift regarding eliciting act forms and interlocutor status.