A Contrastive Study of Request Speech Act in English and Persian Novels: Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach

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Ziba  Amini ¹ (Department of English, Falavarjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran)
Laya  Heidari Darani ² (Department of English, Falavarjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran)

Received: 2019-02-14 Accepted : 2019-07-05 Published : 2019-12-01

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