Politeness in Instagram: The Employment of Gratitude Speech Act by Male and Female English and Persian Users

The present research scrutinized the use of politeness strategies in gratitude expressions of English and Persian users of Instagram. For that purpose, 200 gratitude posts were collected, 100 of which belonged to English users and the other 100 posts were composed by Persian users of Instagram. This...

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Main Authors: Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur, Zeinab Sadat Mousavi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch 2021-01-01
Series:Research in English Language Pedagogy
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Online Access:http://relp.khuisf.ac.ir/article_677748_dcba30129233d0356ec1264b9bbcf6e1.pdf