Reza Pishghadam - Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
Shima Ebrahimi - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
Saba Hasanzadeh - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
Haniyeh Jajarmi - Assistant Professor of TEFL, Bahar Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran

Since language is an integral part of a culture, inspecting linguistic expressions can unveil the hidden cultural memes of a society, conceptualized as cultuling (culture in language) analysis. The present study examined the cultuling of ‘making accreditation with English’ used by Persian native speakers from the upper, middle, and lower social classes. To this end, ۶۲۳ pieces of natural utterances, embracing this cultuling, were extracted from people's conversations in public and private places and from Iranian movies. Then, ۲۷۹ utterances were analyzed from linguistic, cultural, and psychological perspectives based on the cultuling analysis (CLA) model. Additionally, more data were acquired through semi-structured interviews with ۱۹۸ participants aged ۱۹ to ۵۴. The results of the study revealed that Iranians use English for various purposes in their conversations, including accreditation, power, education, superior identity, and higher social class in public/ private and formal/ informal contexts. Moreover, the analysis of Iranians’ different reactions to hearing English words in conversations manifested their hidden cultural patterns, including indirectness, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, high context, collectivism, low trust, and overstating

Culture, cultural patterns, cultuling, Accreditation