List of Articles Compliment Open Access Article Abstract Page Full-Text 1 - Evaluating Speech acts in ELT Textbooks: The Case of Compliments and Complaints in the Touchstone Series Mahdieh Jalilian Ali Roohani Open Access Article Abstract Page Full-Text 2 - Raising EFL Learners’ Pragmatic Competence via Teaching Compliments: The Case of Explicit vs Implicit Instruction in Focus Hossein Isaee Hamed Barjesteh Open Access Article Abstract Page Full-Text 3 - The reflection of prophetic integrity in the complete poetical work of khaghani atamohammad Radmanesh Open Access Article Abstract Page Full-Text 4 - A Contrastive Analysis of Persian and English Compliment, Request, and Invitation Patterns within the Semantic Metalanguage Framework Mohammad Bagher Shabani Ali Malmir Shahram Salehizadeh