1.1 Preliminaries
Generally speaking, language in relation to culture receives a considerable attention from scholars of the twentieth century. The term “culture” may be defined as social or shared knowledge that members of a specific society acquire and within this knowledge language may constitute a unit (1). Accordingly, a speech event is a sample of the interaction of language with social life (2).Our basic concern here is with the problematic question: How can one analyse the speech events of a given language? And here is an outline of our investigation.
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