@article{paperid:1038768, author = {Ghazanfari, Mohammad and A. Bonyadi and Sh. Malekzadeh}, title = {Investigating cross-linguistic differences in refusal speech act among native Persian and English speakers}, journal = {International Journal of Research Studies in Language Learning}, year = {2013}, volume = {2}, number = {4}, month = {October}, issn = {2243-7754}, pages = {49--63}, numpages = {14}, keywords = {pragmatics; speech act theory; refusal utterances; pragmatic gender differences; movie analysis}, }