TY - JOUR T1 - Greeting Forms in English and Persian: A Socio-Pragmatic Perspective AU - , Mohammad Ali Salmani-Nodoushan JO - Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences VL - 4 IS - 3 SP - 355 EP - 362 PY - 2007 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1683-8831 DO - pjssci.2007.355.362 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=pjssci.2007.355.362 KW - Sociopragmatics KW -tertium comparationis KW -greetings KW -speech acts KW -sociolinguistics KW -honorifics KW -pragmatics KW -contrastive linguistics AB - In order to compare English and Persian greeting forms, a model of sociopragmatic contrastive analysis was used. The corpus used for the study comprised of Persian greetings used in naturalistic contexts and English greetings used in movies and other video or audio media. The analyses revealed two patterns for English greetings and 5 patterns for Persian greetings. The results and pedagogical implications of the study are discussed. ER -