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Title:	A socio-pragmatic study on Arabic compliments and compliment responses among Jordanian undergraduate students
Authors:	Mohammad Yahya Najib Al Rousan (P66651)
Supervisor:	Norsimah Mat Awal, Assoc. Prof. Dr.
Keywords:	Compliments Responses Values Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -- Dissertations
Issue Date:	2017
Description:	Compliments are utterances that carry positive evaluations given to the addressee who, in turn, may respond to them as an act to achieve harmony. Compliments are embedded in people's daily conversations as they show their admiration and consideration of other people's feelings, culture, and values. The purpose of this study is to investigate compliments and compliment responses among Jordanian undergraduate students. Hence, this study aims at exploring the functions, intentionality, and forms of compliment and compliment responses among the undergraduates, and investigating if there are any differences with regard to gender, culture, and social economic status. Data were collected from 36 participants through an ethnographic (note-taking) method and Discourse Completion Task. Some 1460 compliments and compliment responses were collected and analyzed. 18 out of the 36 participants were further interviewed in order to get better insights about their perceptions of the functions and intentionality in using such compliments and to get potential explanations about the differences in using the compliment forms. The compliment utterances were also analyzed in terms of the frequency of the following compliment forms: compliment strategies, compliment topics, compliment formats, syntactic patterns of compliments, and compliment responses. Compliment responses, on the other hand, were analyzed using Herbert's Taxonomy of Compliment Response Strategies. Results of the current study show that the functions and intentionality of using compliments were wider and more diverse from what have been suggested in the past studies; it also shows that functions and intentionality between participants differ based on their gender, culture, and social economic status. Results also demonstrate that compliments occurred more frequently among participants of the same gender, culture, and level of social economic status. The current study reveals that Jordanian's traditional and Islamic values still play an important role in the complimenting behavior of today's Jordanian youths. This study contributes to the field of socio-pragmatic through the addition of new perspectives about the functions and intentionality of using compliments in the Jordanian community; it also presents new findings and perspectives about compliment forms in non-western contexts.,Certification of Master's/Doctoral Thesis" is not available
Pages:	221
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan

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