The concept of complimenting in light of the Moore language in Burkina Faso

Abstract

This paper sheds light on the concept of complimenting, based on its practice in the Moore language spoken in Burkina Faso, West Africa. It revisits Holmes’ (1986) definition of “compliments” and proposes a model which gives new insight into the concept of complimenting behaviour across languages and cultures. The proposed model may have implications for our understanding of politeness strategies as proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987), particularly with the urge to integrate third person in the model, as a close examination of data from Moore would suggest. The data analyzed were collected in naturally occurring discourse.

Pragmatic Features of the Speech Act of Compliment in a Turkish TV Drama

“…Since then, compliments and compliment responses have received a great deal of attention from researchers in different parts of the globe. In fact, recent publications show that interest in this speech act has not faded away yet (e.g., Al-Mansoob, Patil, & Alrefaee, 2019;Boroujeni, Domakani, & Sheykhi, 2016;Eslami, Jabbari, & Kuo 2015;Farenkia, 2013;Furko & Dudas, 2012;Monjezi, 2014;Morales, 2012;Negargar, 2015;Salgado & Witten, 2019;Saifi & Sultani, 2017;Salgado & Witten, 2019;Sawadogo, 2018;Shokouhi & Rezaei, 2015).…”