Jordanian college students' responses to compliments: a pilot study

Farghal, Mohammed; Al‐Khatib, Mahmoud A.

doi:10.1016/s0378-2166(01)00006-6

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“…In the field of foreign language learning, Nelsen et al (1996) argue that pragmatic failure is quiet possible in the context of paying compliments and responding to them. Farghal and Al-Khatib (2001) similarly point out that there is a pragmatic failure in compliments' response by native English speakers during the acquisition of Jordanian spoken Arabic compliments.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…The majority of these studies focus on the fields and topics of compliment (e.g., Daikuhara, 1986;Migdadi, 2003;Zayed, 2014;and Al-rousan, 2016); the acceptability of compliment (e.g., Daikuhara, 1986;Yu, 2005;Al-rousan, 2016;and Hao,2017); the structure of compliments (e.g., Holmes, 1986;and Nelson,1993); the factors behind compliments (e.g., Al-rousan,2016); and compliment response (e.g., Herbert, 1997;and Farghal and Al-Khatib, 2001). …”

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The Translation of Compliments in Spoken Jordanian Arabic into English

Salem

2018

IJL

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This paper examines the difficulties involved in translating culture-bound compliments from spoken Jordanian Arabic into English in different cultural interactions. The study specifically looks into a number of compliments in Arabic and discusses their translation into English. To achieve this goal, a test was designed by the researchers to examine the translation of 10 compliments that are not familiar to the English language and culture, and these translations were examined with the help of a few native English-speaking colleagues to check their acceptability in stylistic terms. The sample of subjects included 20 female BA students at the University of Jordan; all of them are in their third year. The findings reveal that the participants adopted the techniques of literal translation, paraphrase, addition, and omission when translating culture-bound compliments. They also encountered difficulties relating to grammar, lexical choice, and collocation.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The Translation of Compliments in Spoken Jordanian Arabic into English

Salem

2018

IJL

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“…Ritual has played an important role in two areas of politeness research, in particular: cross-cultural and historical politeness research. As regards the former, a considerable number of studies have explored ritualistic politeness in areas that are relatively 'less studied' in Anglophone academia, such as Arabic (Farghal and Al Khatib 2001), Persian (Koutlaki 2002;Eslami-Rasekh 2005;Bucar 2012), Japanese (Ide 1998;Ohashi 2008), and Chinese (e.g. Pan 2000; Pan and Kádár 2012).…”

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Convention and Ritual (Im)politeness

Terkourafi

Kádár

2017

The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness

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“…Thus, the speech acts of compliment (Cs) and responding to compliments (CRs) are not an exception. Literature on the act of complimenting (e.g., Wolfson 1981;Manes, 1983;Knapp, Hopper & Bell, 1984;Barnlund &Araki, 1985;Holmes & Brown, 1987;Nelson, Bakery & Al-Batal, 1993;Garcia, 2012;Placencia & Lower, 2013;Evazzade & Katal, 2012;Goetzinger, Park, Widdows, 2006;Zarei, 2011) and responding to compliments (Holmes, 1988a(Holmes, , 1988bPomerantz, 1978;Hebert 1991;Hertbert & Straight, 1989;Chen, 1993;Nelson, Al-Batal & Echols, 1996, Lorenzo-Dus, 2001and Farghal & Al-Khatib, 2001;Cheng, 2011;Sadeghi & Foutooh, 2012;Cai, 2012;Hauser, 2008;Chen & Yang, 2010) has supported Wolfson's statement. These studies have shed light on the linguistic forms, the sociolinguistic functions and the strategies of Cs and CRs.…”

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“…In Nelson, Al-Batal & Echols' (1996) report, the term "mitigate" was used in replacement for deflecting, which in their study, becomes a subcategory under "mitigate"). However, on the one hand, the subcategories under these three broad categories are rather different in different studies (e.g., Daikuhara, 1986;1988;Herbert & Straight, 1989;Herbert, 1990;Chen, 1993;Nelson, Al-Batal & Echols, 1996;Farghal &Al-Khatib, 2001 andLorenzo-Dus, 2001). One example can be seen in the comparison of Chen's (1993) and Holmes's (1988a) theoretical framework as shown earlier in the present paper.…”

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Strategies Employed by the Vietnamese to Respond to Compliments and the Influence of Compliment Receivers’ Perception of the Compliment on Their Responses

Pham

2014

IJL

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This research explores the strategies employed by the Vietnamese to respond to compliments and the influence of compliment receivers' perception of the compliment on their responses. Three hundred and sixty compliment/compliment response sequences were obtained from 120 extended interviews with 126 participants (6 interviewers and 120 interviewees). The conversations were tape-recorded. The interviewees' interpretation of their compliment responses was also recorded. The results show the Vietnamese have a high tendency to reject compliments because they want to be perceived as modest people by the compliment giver. The analysis of the compliment/compliment response sequences and of the participants' interpretation of their responses indicates that responding to compliments in Vietnamese is a complex speech act. Besides three major strategies used in compliment responses (i.e., acceptance, rejection and deflection), there are cases where the two opposite strategies acceptance and rejection appear in the same response. This reflects the Vietnamese tension between modesty/self-denying and self-appreciation. In other words, different principles involved in replying to compliments interact both between responses and within responses. The act of responding to compliments in Vietnamese is also complicated in that the receiver of the compliment can use the same strategy to convey different meanings. For example, in deflecting compliments the compliment receiver tends to shift the praised credit to other people, luck, fate or God to acknowledge their contribution. However, compliment receivers International Journal of Linguistics ISSN 1948-5425 2014 www.macrothink.org/ijl 154 also tend to use this strategy to show themselves to the complimenter as modest and tactful people, especially when they know that their credit shift does not influence the way the complimenter perceives the praised attribute.

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Jordanian college students' responses to compliments: a pilot study

Cited by 64 publications

References 14 publications

The Translation of Compliments in Spoken Jordanian Arabic into English

The Translation of Compliments in Spoken Jordanian Arabic into English

Convention and Ritual (Im)politeness

Strategies Employed by the Vietnamese to Respond to Compliments and the Influence of Compliment Receivers’ Perception of the Compliment on Their Responses

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