Compliment responses are one of speech act types in pragmatic study. This study is aimed (1) to investigate the strategies used by the American and Makassarese people in responding to the complim ent, (2) to compare the response tendencies used by American and the Makassarese people based on Gender and age; and (3) to investigate the cultural influences on the American and Makassarese response.The research was a comparative study which and used a descriptive- qualitative approach. The data were collected from youtube.com and DCT questionnaire. The  data  were  analyzed  using  a  number  of techniques, namely  noting  down  the utterances,  categorizing the responses identified based on Holmes’ semantic formula and explaining the cultural influences based on their responses. Firstly, the research result revealed that both the American and Makassarese people used 3 compliment strategies: accepting, evading and refusing. Americans would use the evading strategy when the speaker and his interlocutor were good friends; while a Makassarese  would either use the evading strategy or the refusing strategy in his responses, when the speaker and his interlocutor were of a different kinship hierarchy, such as between the older  and  the  younger  brothers or sisters  and  between  husband  and  wife. Secondly,  The  comparison  of the compliment responses between the American and Makassarese males indicated that an American male had the tendency to evade a compliment in every topic except teenager had tendency to accept the compliment in any topic. While a Makassarese male tend to receive the compliment for all the topics, except for the comp liment for an achievement.on the other hand, an American woman had tendency to accept a compliment for all topics, but an older woman had a tendency to refuse a compliment. a Makassarese woman, had also a tendency to accept a compliment for all topics. Finally, Makassarese people, both men and women had the tendency to accept, evade or refuse compliments when they had kinship.

Exploring the cultural pragmatic speech of the Makassar people of various ages and genders is a popular trend in current pragmatic research. However, most of the previous studies have only obtained data from speakers of different genders and ages and have not addressed the cultural influences that influence them. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to fill in the gaps of previous research by showing that the dominant culture greatly influences verbal actions in response to praise from people living in Makassar, children, adolescents and adults. Three instruments are used in this descriptive research: observations, surveys and interviews with 15 adults, 15 youth and 15 children. The results show that Makassar culture influences the proportion of compliments used by Makassar people. 87% of female responses received praise in adulthood, 13% avoid praise, and 82% of female responses receive praise and 18% avoid praise in adolescence. In adulthood, 60% of their responses are praise, 40% avoid praise, 80% of men respond to praise, 20% reject praise, and 100% of boys accept praise.

The aim of this study was to investigate the pragmatic failure in English and Arabic students at the UIN Alauddin Makassar's Faculty of Adab and Cultural Studies. The data for the study were gathered through observation, distribution of questionnaires in the form of a discourse completeness test (DCT), and interviews. Quantitative and qualitative research data were collected in this research. This study employed three statistical models or techniques: descriptive statistics, association rules (a priori algorithm), Chi Square, and qualitative analysis. The results shos that there are three kinds of pragmatic failure that produced by the English and Arabic students such as sociopragmatic, pragmalinguistic, and psychopragmatic aspects. In addition, The researcher suggests to the next researcher to study more deeply about the types of pragmatic failure in other fields.

This study aims to describe (1) the form of compliment strategies and compliment responses of English learners at the Adab and Humanities Faculty of UIN Alauddin Makassar, (2) the factors related to the pragmatics of the transfer of English learners at the Adab and Humanities Faculty of UIN Alauddin Makassar. The population in this study is all students of semester 6 of the Class of 2017 English Language and Literature Faculty of Adab and Humanities UIN Alauddin Makassar, with a total of 70 respondents as a representative selected research sample, is considered as the representation of the entire research population. The data collection methods are conducted using DCT, interviews, and direct observations. The data obtained is analyzed with quantitative and qualitative techniques. Specifically, the quantitative data is processed with statistics using R analytics software, while the qualitative data is analyzed using pragmatic transfer analysis. The results showed that (1) The form of compliment strategy used by English learners at the UIN Alauddin Makassar faculty consists of 18 forms of compliment strategies and 13 forms of compliment response strategies, the most commonly used forms are surprise and congratulations strategies while the form of compliment response that is most often done is the appreciation and appreciation strategy receive compliments. (2) There are 3 factors related to the pragmatic transfer of English learners that affect the negative transfer that occurs when performing compliments speech acts and compliment responses, including sociopragmatic, pragmalinguistic and psychopragmatic factors.

The aim of this research is to find out the review of employee motivation at the Hotel Arborbiz Makassar.The type of research used is descriptive qualitative, in which the author describes the results of observations and direct interviews with employees at Hotel Arborbiz Makassar. Writing this Final Project is the result of research conducted from June to July 2022.The results showed that the work motivation of employees at Hotel Arborbiz Makassar was seen from several factors that influenced employee motivation, such as promotions, work performance, the work itself, awards, responsibilities and recognition from superiors.