A Contrastive Analysis of Persian and English Compliment, Request, and Invitation Patterns within the Semantic Metalanguage Framework

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Mohammad Bagher Shabani ¹ , Ali Malmir ² , Shahram Salehizadeh ³

1 - Assistant Professor, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran
3 - PhD Candidate, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran

Received: 2020-02-15 Accepted : 2020-02-15 Published : 2019-10-01

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