A Comparative Study of Greeting Forms Common among Native Male and Female Speakers of Persian

This study aimed at discovering the most frequent verbal behaviors associated with Persian greetings. It tried to investigate whether these behaviors vary according to relationships between interlocutors and speakers sex. The results shows that greeting forms used by Persian males and females show great differences in terms of the linguistic forms used in different situations reveling the fact that men prefer using more informal expressions and feel a greater power face in comparison to female speakers. Women mostly tend to talk about private subjects and prefer to show how they feel about the subject matter.