Jordanian college students' responses to compliments: A pilot study

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1485-1502

  Farghal, Mohammed ^a   Al Khatib, Mahmoud A ^b  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Compliment responses; Face; Gender; Jordanian Arabic; Macro functions; Micro functions; Politeness; Sociolinguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041834710     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(01)00006-6     Document Type: Article

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