The Impact of Contextual Variables on Internal Intensification of Apology Speech Acts in Persian: Social Distance and Severity of Offense in Focus
The current paper primarily provides an account of how apology speech acts are internally intensified in Persian. Moreover, the study checks to what extent contextual variables, namely social distance and severity of offense, may motivate the internal intensification of apology speech acts. To these...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Isfahan
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Applied Research on English Language |
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| Online Access: | http://are.ui.ac.ir/article_23797_71fbccc9ec313498297543cf1d42ac9c.pdf |