Compliments and compliment responses in Israeli Hebrew: Hebrew university in Jerusalem students in interaction

Danziger, Roni

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2017.12.004

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“…A pioneering study of compliments has been conducted by some experts like Pomerantz (1978), Wolfson & Manes (1980), Holmes (1995), andYe (1995). Most research on compliments has paid particular attention to compliment response strategy either in a single language (Danziger, 2018;Pomerantz, 1978;Sartini, 2019) or comparison of two languages (R. Chen, 2010;Tang & Zhang, 2009). This paper then will focus more on compliment strategies rather than how to respond (following Holmes 1995;Ye 1995;Wolfson & Manes 1980).…”

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Compliment Strategies Used by The Judges in Indonesian and American Idol 2019: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Study

Agustiyani¹

2020

scr. j. j. linguist. engl. teach.

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Background: This is a contrastive study that compares the investigation on the patterns of compliments strategies used by the judges in Indonesian Idol and American Idol 2019. This study aims at describing the compliment strategies addressed by the judges in two reality talent shows, that’s a singing competition, and to reveal the differences of cultural values between the two societies. Methodology: The data is collected from the two YouTube accounts for the top three finalists’ performance by utilizing the observation method with the note-taking technique. Ye’s compliment strategies theory (1995) and Holmes’ syntactic patterns of compliments (1995) are employed in analyzing the data. Findings: The result showed a significant difference between Indonesian and American judges in the way they give compliments. Indonesian judges prefer to use more explicit compliments while American judges prefer implicit compliments instead. Conclusion: It then revealed the contrastive cultural reflection of western people that is supposed to be ‘more ‘direct’ in the way of speaking’ (Wierzbicka, 2003). On the other hand, the finding exhibited contrast results from conventional perception upon Indonesian cultural predilection to ‘indirectness’ in the way of speaking. Keywords: American Idol 2019; Compliment Strategies; Cross-cultural Pragmatics; Indonesian Idol 2019; The Judges.

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Section: Compliment Strategies Used By the Judges In Indonesian And Amentioning

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Compliment Strategies Used by The Judges in Indonesian and American Idol 2019: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Study

Agustiyani¹

2020

scr. j. j. linguist. engl. teach.

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“…Kasah ‫)כסאח(‬ refers to a hostile, bashing talk that maintains the assertive directness of dugri without its infrastructure of solidarity. Firgun, ‫,)פרגון(‬ in contrast, is an interpersonal speaking style that maintains sincerity and solidarity in a competitive, individualistic environment (Katriel, 1993;Maschler, 2001;Dori-Hacohen, 2016;Danziger, 2018). The Hebrew verb lefargen roughly translates as "to support, not to envy or begrudge another's success" (Katriel, 1993: 31), and denotes a selfless, sincere supportive verbal activity towards another.…”

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“…In cases where words of support are evaluated as instrumental or insincere, they are often labelled flattery (ḥanfanut, Katriel, 1993). Since 10.1163/26660393-bja10020 | Contrastive PragmaticS (2020) 1-31 firgun has been shown to be a communicative pivot for Jewish-Israeli solidarityoriented social behaviour (Danziger, 2018;Kampf and Danziger, 2019), this metacommunicative term needs to be taken into account when studying the evaluation of strategic language use by Hebrew speakers.…”

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Interpretive Constructs in Contrast: The Case of Flattery in Hebrew and in Palestinian Arabic

Danziger

Kampf

2020

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The contrastive study of interpretive constructs, the end products of evaluative processes, enables identification of patterns of meaning-making that may result in cross-cultural misunderstandings. The study focuses on judgments of flattery in Israeli Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic. Using contrastive metapragmatic methodology, it examines how flattery is used and perceived in two neighbouring speech communities with different cultural speaking styles: Israeli dugri (and its related firgun) and Arabic musayara. Findings indicate more similarities than differences in the performance and evaluation of flattery, with a slight departure with regard to evaluation and stance. We hypothesize that following the asymmetrical contact between Hebrew speakers and Arabic speakers in Israel, younger Arabic speakers tend to adopt the majority group’s patterns of politeness.

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“…In supportive action, most of the speakers accepted the compliments (94%). More recently, Danziger (2018) has done a study on Hebrew speakers' CR patterns. Using a DCT, Danziger realised that Hebrew speakers are more inclined to accept the compliments while the patterns observed among Hebrew speakers were claimed to be more diversified in comparison to other cultures.…”

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Appraising and reappraising of compliments and the provision of responses

Moghaddam

2019

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The role of cognitive processes in compliment-response (CR) exchanges is an underdeveloped area of investigation. This article aims to probe whether Persian speakers’ responses to compliments change in line with their appraisals of the situation. To achieve this aim, Persian speakers’ responses to compliments are analysed based on their first and second appraisals of the event. In this study, with a focus on the CR exchanges, Persian speakers (N = 160) were observed and audio-recorded during everyday conversation. The results of this study manifest that Persian speakers have distinct (and even opposite) reactions based on their first and second appraisal of compliments. This suggests, therefore, that Appraisal 1 and Appraisal 2 undergo different sociocognitive processes that reflect automatic and non-automatic responses to compliments. It is concluded that the relation between Appraisal 1 and Appraisal 2 is mostly contradictory rather than confirmatory, in that the first compliment is mostly appraised as a politeness strategy (a social lubricant), whereas the second compliment is frequently appraised as purposeful or strategic praise. In addition, the first compliment is responded to automatically, whereas the second compliment is approached non-automatically.

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Compliments and compliment responses in Israeli Hebrew: Hebrew university in Jerusalem students in interaction

Cited by 19 publications

References 21 publications

Compliment Strategies Used by The Judges in Indonesian and American Idol 2019: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Study

Compliment Strategies Used by The Judges in Indonesian and American Idol 2019: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Study

Interpretive Constructs in Contrast: The Case of Flattery in Hebrew and in Palestinian Arabic

Appraising and reappraising of compliments and the provision of responses

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