The current study aims at exploring the difference between male and female Jordanian university students with regard to their compliment responses on Facebook. It also investigates when they respond compliments offered by opposite sex. is based a corpus consisting of 233 collected from comments Facebook posts. data analysis was Herbert’s (1986) taxonomy response strategies. Findings this resear...

Adopting a discursive approach to politeness (see, for example, Mills 2011), this paper explores spontaneous naturally occurring compliment responses (CRs) in Chinese from a cross-generational perspective. It aims to extend our understanding of the dynamic nature of face and/or politeness in contemporary Chinese. 16 multiparty conversations among two generations of the Chinese in China’s mainla...

Abstract This paper focusses on compliment responses in the context of group undergraduate student projects, a university Hong Kong. It applies Geoffrey Leech’s model politeness. Although less well known than some other politeness models, it has proved relatively popular studies responses, which are often said to involve clash between Maxim Agreement (achieved by agreeing with complimenter) and...

Apology may be defined as “a compensatory action for an offense committed by the speaker which has affected hearer” (Marquez-Reiter, 2000, p. 44), and a compliment is another speech act "which explicitly or implicitly attributes credit to someone other than speaker... positively valued hearer" (Holmes, 1986, 485). The focus of this paper find out strategies are employed Turkish pre-service EFL ...

Compliment response is among the most common speech acts used in everyday conversations. Recipients’ responses to compliments differ depending on distinct social variables, including power, degree of intimacy, distance, culture and gender. The current study investigates Responses (henceforth, CRs) Moroccan male female EFL learners based four topics (ability, character, possession appearance). T...