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************************************************ TEXT FAMILIARITY, READING TASKS AND ESP TEST PERFORMANCE JOURNAL: The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal Volume 3, No 1, April 2003 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) ************************************************ A SOCIOPRAGMATIC COMPARATIVE STUDY OF OSTENSIBLE INVITATIONS IN ENGLISH AND FARSI JOURNAL: Research Journal of the Faculty of Foreign Languages Fall 2004 University of Tehran ABSTRACT: Of late, linguistics has been trying to come up with a universal theory of language. Linguists, sociolinguists, and psycholinguists have focused on the different aspects of language. The sum of all their efforts has, no doubt, contributed to the developing field of Universal Grammar. However, the field calls for a good number of other research studies in the different languages of the world. As such, the present study was carried out with the aim of examining Farsi ostensible invitations in terms of the universals of pragmatics. In much the same way as Clark and Isaacs (1990) did, in the present study, too, 45 field workers observed and reported 566 ostensible and 607 genuine invitations. 34 undergraduates were interviewed and afforded 68 ostensible and 68 genuine invitations. And, 41 pairs of friends were interviewed and afforded 41 ostensible invitations. The data were then put to statistical tests: the comparison of ratios was carried out for the purposes of comparing the ratios of the two types of invitations (for any probable difference) in terms of the seven features that control their use in the English language; the chi-square test was also carried out to determine whether the type of invitation was dependent on such variables as the sex, age, and social class of the inviters or not. The results of the data analysis revealed that Farsi ostensible invitations go by the universal norms that influence language use. It was also concluded that the type of invitation was dependent on the variables mentioned above. To place an order for the full text of the paper, write to: Research Journal of the Faculty of Foreign Languages College of Foreign Languages, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Phone: 0098 21 8025005 to 8025009 WEB: http://www.ut.ac.ir/ ************************************************ امتحان زبان دیپلم یا فاجعه ارزشیابی عنوان مجله: رشد آموش زبان سال چاپ: سال نهم، زمستان 1371 و بهار 1372 شماره مسلسل: 34 و 35 شماره صفحات: از صفحه 14 الی 19 ************************************************ عنوان مجله: فصلنامه علمی-پژوهشی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی اراک سال چاپ: سال اول، زمستان 1377 شماره مسلسل: 1 شماره صفحات: از صفحه 139 الی 143 ************************************************ |
