عنوان	Politeness in the Simpsons: a pragmatic study
نوع پژوهش	مقاله ارائه شده کنفرانسی
کلیدواژه‌ها	Key terms: Politeness, Pragmatics, Strategies, Simpsons.
چکیده	Politeness is the act of showing good manners toward others. It is done through certain strategies all employed for the same purpose. Politeness has been studied in different places and data. The Simpsons is good and rich with situations where the strategies of politeness are employed. This study has set itself the task of investigating politeness strategies in the Simpsons dialogues. It concludes that that the characters in the Simpsons use different strategies of politeness to show that they are polite and they are not aggressive towards the other. The most frequent strategy used in the dialogues studied is indirect politeness.
پژوهشگران	طاهره افشار (Tahereh Afshar) (نفر اول)، نادیا فرهود (نفر دوم)