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"Conventional Expressions of the English and Persian Directive Speech Acts: A Study in Pragmalinguistics 1 AFSHAR, Mohammad Reza Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences Introduction Pragmalinguistics which is a part of pragmatics is the study of linguistic forms and conventional expressions found in a given language for conveying particular illocution(Markanen, 1985).
The corpus used in this study consists of 1109 English and Persian utterances which have been classified into five different directive speech acts: order, demand, request, advice and suggestion.
Request: 1)Future Action of Hearer 2)Speaker believes Hearer can do Action 3)It is not obvious that Hearer would do Action without being asked 4)Speaker wants Hearer to do something 5)counts as an attempt to get Hearer to do Action On the basis of the dictionary meaning of demand and suggestion the following feclicity conditions have been assumed when classifying directive utterances : IV.
3)Hearer has not the obligation to do the action 4)Speaker has the right to tell Hearer to do the action 5)Speaker guides Hearer Based on the above felicity conditions, linguistic forms(strategies)of English and Persian directive functions cited above have been derived.
On the basis of some felicity conditions these utterances were then classified into the following types of directive speech acts : a)orders, b)advices, c)requests, d)demands, and e)suggestions.
To request someone to do something through the use of English second person plural imperative verb, a Persian speaker imagines that his utterance is as polite as its Persian equivalent."