Compliment responses among male and female Jordanian university students

This study was conducted to examine compliment responses among Jordanian university students. It aims to explore the use of compliment responses among Jordanian, and investigate if there are any differences with regard to gender. The corpus consists of 611 compliment responses collected from 36 p...

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Main Authors:	Al-rousan, Mohammad Yahya, Norsimah Mat Awal, Khazriyati Salehuddin
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10134/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10134/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10134/1/9014-33378-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-101342017-02-21T03:52:07Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10134/ Compliment responses among male and female Jordanian university students Al-rousan, Mohammad Yahya Norsimah Mat Awal, Khazriyati Salehuddin, This study was conducted to examine compliment responses among Jordanian university students. It aims to explore the use of compliment responses among Jordanian, and investigate if there are any differences with regard to gender. The corpus consists of 611 compliment responses collected from 36 participants through an ethnographic (note-taking) method during the second semester of 2013/2014 academic session. This research adopted Herbert’s (1990) taxonomy of compliment response strategies to analyze the compliment responses. Results show that recipients used the agreement strategies more frequently than the other strategies. The findings also show although both males and females favored to use agreement strategies more than non agreement and other interpretation strategies, female students used agreement strategies more frequently than the male students. This may support the claim that males tend to interpret compliment as FTA. Females also preferred to use agreement strategies to respond to compliment offered by female than compliment offered by male. Compliment responses strategies are discussed in terms of gender. It can be concluded that the linguistic manipulations of compliment responses shown in this study indicate that no one strategy of compliment responses would work because different genders have different sets of strategies, thereby preventing any valid generalization. The current study offered important differences in using compliment responses between genders. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016-02 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10134/1/9014-33378-1-PB.pdf Al-rousan, Mohammad Yahya and Norsimah Mat Awal, and Khazriyati Salehuddin, (2016) Compliment responses among male and female Jordanian university students. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 16 (1). pp. 19-34. ISSN 1675-8021 http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/750
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description	This study was conducted to examine compliment responses among Jordanian university students. It aims to explore the use of compliment responses among Jordanian, and investigate if there are any differences with regard to gender. The corpus consists of 611 compliment responses collected from 36 participants through an ethnographic (note-taking) method during the second semester of 2013/2014 academic session. This research adopted Herbert’s (1990) taxonomy of compliment response strategies to analyze the compliment responses. Results show that recipients used the agreement strategies more frequently than the other strategies. The findings also show although both males and females favored to use agreement strategies more than non agreement and other interpretation strategies, female students used agreement strategies more frequently than the male students. This may support the claim that males tend to interpret compliment as FTA. Females also preferred to use agreement strategies to respond to compliment offered by female than compliment offered by male. Compliment responses strategies are discussed in terms of gender. It can be concluded that the linguistic manipulations of compliment responses shown in this study indicate that no one strategy of compliment responses would work because different genders have different sets of strategies, thereby preventing any valid generalization. The current study offered important differences in using compliment responses between genders.
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author	Al-rousan, Mohammad Yahya Norsimah Mat Awal, Khazriyati Salehuddin,
spellingShingle	Al-rousan, Mohammad Yahya Norsimah Mat Awal, Khazriyati Salehuddin, Compliment responses among male and female Jordanian university students
author_facet	Al-rousan, Mohammad Yahya Norsimah Mat Awal, Khazriyati Salehuddin,
author_sort	Al-rousan, Mohammad Yahya
title	Compliment responses among male and female Jordanian university students
title_short	Compliment responses among male and female Jordanian university students
title_full	Compliment responses among male and female Jordanian university students
title_fullStr	Compliment responses among male and female Jordanian university students
title_full_unstemmed	Compliment responses among male and female Jordanian university students
title_sort	compliment responses among male and female jordanian university students
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2016
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10134/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10134/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10134/1/9014-33378-1-PB.pdf
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Compliment responses among male and female Jordanian university students

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