A cross-cultural study of condolence strategies in a computer-mediated social network
Among the various speech acts, an under-investigated one is condolence speech act.The present study sought to investigate the verbal strategies of expressing condolence used by (1) Iranian native speakers of Persian, (2) Iranian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners, and (3) American native speakers of English.Accordingly, a total of 200, 42