A socio-pragmatic comparative study of
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5.4. Limitations of the Study
A good number of social factors such as culture, ethnicity, and generation are not easy to process. Researchers, therefore, usually keep aloof from them. In other words, sociolinguists indulge in the study of manageable factors and variables. For the same reason, the present study has limited its scope to such parameters as sex, age, and social class. A second limitation of this study is related to the methods of data collection. The abstract nature of pragmatics is such that makes the utilization of a good number of methods of data collection impossible. The painful fact is that the remaining methods are not without restrictions. Observation, for instance, is influenced by the so-called observer paradox. Interview, on the other hand, is subject to inaccuracies of many types. The data of this study include instances of ostensible invitations from a variety of speech communities (i.e. Yazdi, Shirazi, Tehrani, etc.). Therefore, the study is not limited in terms of the speech community to which it applies. However, making any generalization on the basis of the results of the study calls for a bigger repertoire of samples and instances. 5.5. Suggestions for Further Research This study was primarily designed to find out whether Farsi ostensible invitations would function in consonance with the universals of pragmatics. Other similar studies, however, could be carried out with a set of different focuses. The following list outlines CHAPTER FIVE: CONCLUSIONS AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS 71 some of the domains that call for research. 1) Evaluation of ostensible invitations in the regional dialects of Farsi such as Kurdish, Turkish, etc; 2) Evaluation of ostensible invitations in terms of the implications they endeavor to effect; 3) Evaluation of ostensible invitations with the aim of outlining their semantic and syntactic patterns; 4) etc. |
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