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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Glavni avtor: Othman, Normala
Format: Article
Jezik:English
Izdano: International Islamic University Malaysia 2011
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Online dostop:http://irep.iium.edu.my/16659/1/Normala_Othman-asiatic.pdf