Sažetak: The present study attempts to outline the degree and type of use of apology strategies in Per-sian and elaborate on the socio- cultural attitudes and values of this community. The infor-mants were 330...

Sažetak: The study of compliments has attracted the attention of many scholars (e.g., Goffman 1971; Lakoff 1973; Brown and Levinson 1978; Amouzadeh 2001; Gola-to 2002; Sharifian 2005) and has become a major i...

Sažetak: This paper aims to explore the pragmatic aspects of summer school application calls in the framework of Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness theory. The first part of the paper elaborates on the the...

Sažetak: U ovome se radu istražuju načini upućivanja i prihvaćanja komplimenata među hrvatskim i njemačkim studentima, a s obzirom na dosadašnji nedostatak hrvatsko-njemačkih kontrastivnih istraživanja ovoga g...