Pragmatic and cultural considerations of compliment responses among Malaysian-Malay speakers

Pragmatic and cultural considerations of compliment responses among Malaysian-Malay speakers

Janet Holmes defines a compliment as “a speech act which explicitly or implicitly attributes credit to someone other than the speaker, usually the person addressed, for some „good‟ (possession, characteristic, skill, etc.) which is positively valued by the speaker and the hearer” (485). Compliments...

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Main Author: Othman, Normala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Islamic University Malaysia 2011
Subjects:
PL5101 Malay
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/16659/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/16659/1/Normala_Othman-asiatic.pdf

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