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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International Islamic University Malaysia
2011
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