期刊名称：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
印刷版ISSN：2250-0715
电子版ISSN：2248-9010
出版年度：2012
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：150-161
出版社：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
摘要：Mastery of the grammatical system of a language is not enough for the use of a language, we need to have “the knowledge of the rules of use and communicatively approach performance” (Richards & Schmidt, 1982, p.52) in conversation and particularly language in telephone conversation. Closing a telephone conversation is an activity which should be done collaboratively by both participants through employing a variety of procedures in order to bring the conversation to an end. In closing, speakers have to be concerned about the appropriate strategies to be used; otherwise, misunderstanding is likely to occur. A well-structured closing can strengthen mutual solidarity and serve maintaining the relationships. This study aims to make a comparison between English and Persian speaker’s choice of strategies in telephone conversation closings. Natural data are tape recorded and transcribed for analysis to explore how closing is realized in Persian and how comparable it is to English. The English data analysis is according to Liddicoat’s findings (2007); he discovered the general conventions of conversation closing in English speech. Our comparison shows peculiar differences in the structure of the speech act of closing across English and Persian. The differences include mainly the strategies employed by the speakers to end a telephone conversation.
关键词：pre-closing sequences; closing implicative environments; terminal sequences; in-;conversation objects; moving out of closing.
