@article{paperid:1025988, author = {Pishghadam, Reza and Zarei, Sima}, title = {Cross-cultural Comparison of Gratitude Expressions in Persian, Chinese and American English}, journal = {English Language Teaching}, year = {2012}, volume = {5}, number = {1}, month = {January}, issn = {1916-4742}, pages = {117--126}, numpages = {9}, keywords = {Culture; Pragmatic Competence; Speech act; Speech act of gratitude}, }