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A SOCIO-PRAGMATIC COMPARATIVE STUDY OF OSTENSIBLE INVITATIONS IN ENGLISH AND FARSI
Mohammad Ali Salmani-Nodoushan, Ph.D.
The present study was carried out with the aim of examining Farsi ostensible invitations in terms of the universals of pragmatics. To this end, 45 field workers observed and reported 566 ostensible and 607 genuine invitations. 34 undergraduates were interviewed and afforded 68 ostensible and 68 genuine invitations. And, 41 pairs of friends were interviewed and afforded 41 ostensible invitations. The data were then put to statistical tests: the comparison of ratios was carried out for the purposes of comparing the ratios of the two types of invitations (for any probable difference) in terms of the seven features that control their use in the English language; the chi-square test was also carried out to determine whether the type of invitation was dependent on such variables as the sex, age, and social class of the inviters or not.
The results of the data analysis revealed that Farsi ostensible invitations go by the universal norms that influence language use. It was also concluded that the type of invitation was dependent on the variables mentioned above.
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