@Article{, title={The Speech Act Sets* of Compla int and Refusal as Used by Iraqi EFL}, author={Ahmed Sahib Mubarak, M. A.}, journal={Journal Human Sciences مجلة العلوم الانسانية}, volume={1}, number={14}, pages={298-312}, year={2013}, abstract={A good deal of the work in the field of interlanguage pragmatics has been conducted within the framework of speech acts theory. Speech acts can be thought of as ‘functions’ of language, such as complaining, refusing, thanking, apologizing, requesting, inviting, and the like.

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