A Contrastive Study of Four Cultural Differences in Everyday

There are many differences in language and culture between native speakers of Persian and native speakers of English. There are certain attitudes and ideas and certain culturally prescribed rules of behavior that seem to be accepted by most Americans and Englishmen and certain ways of social interaction that are generally observed. The problem is similar in Persian when the language and culture have their local variations. Social scientists tell us that cultures differ from one another, that each culture is unique. As cultures are diverse, so languages are diverse. Understanding culture and its variations is not always easy. So it’s very important to study the cultural differences between languages. The difference between daily conversations is only one part of it. This paper is concerned with four cultural differences in everyday conversation between English and Persian. The international community has grown in size since World War II and has been demonstrating its significant role in handling international affairs. Along with it the interaction between peoples of different linguistic and cultural backgrounds has become increasingly frequent. Geographical distance has been greatly minimized as a result of the civil development of mankind, which includes the rapid advance of science and technology, the interdependence of economic and trading business, and the constant improvement of the means of transportation and communication. Today, no matter whether one travels overseas or lives within one’s native territory, one has to deal with foreign people or those of other ethnic origins. Cross-cultural communication is becoming daily more common. The relation between language and culture has its roots in the writing of a number of 19th and early 20th century linguists (eg. Wilhelm Von Humboldt, Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and Benjamin Lee Whorf). This trend of investigation has been continued by other eminen