A cross-cultural study of condolence strategies in a computer-mediated social network

Among the various speech acts, an under-investigated one is condolence speech act. The present study sought to investigate the verbal strategies of expressing condolence used by (1) Iranian native speakers of Persian, (2) Iranian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners, and (3) American native...

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Main Authors: Minoo Alemi, Niayesh Pazoki Moakhar, Atefeh Rezanejad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2021-06-01
Series:Russian Journal of Linguistics
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/viewFile/26799/19505