Publications
Publication details [#14343]
Farghal, Mohammed and Mahmoud A. Al-Khatib. 2001. Jordanian college students' responses to compliments: A pilot study. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (9) : 1485–1502. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
A semantic, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic analysis of Jordanian sexual identity in relation to compliment behavior, attitudes and values. Discourse strategies and social relationships involved in the compliment responses are also discussed. It is observed that speaker gender is instrumental to the formulation and acceptance/rejection of a compliment.