Publications

Publication details [#12581]

Nelson, Gayle L., Waguida El Bakary and Mahmoud Al Batal. 1996. Egyptian and American compliments: Focus on second language learners. In Gass, Susan M. and Joyce Neu, eds. Speech Acts Across Cultures. Challenges to Communication in a Second Language. (Studies on Language Acquisition 11). De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 109–128.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative competence | complimenting | crosscultural communication | L2-acquisition | speech act

Language as a subject

Egyptian | English, American

Annotation

This study investigated American and Egyptian complements to determine similarities and differences in compliment form, attributes praised, gender of the compliment giver and receiver and compliment frequency.