Compliments in The Yemeni Society: a sociolinguistic perspective

This paper is a wide-range empirical investigation of the compliment behavior in the Yemeni speech community. It seeks to investigate its distribution, the structures and syntactic patterns of a compliment expression, the attributes praised, and how compliment is influenced by the sex and social sta...

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Main Author: Nada Qanbar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit UKM 2012
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5553/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5553/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5553/1/Vol_12_3_%28999-1017%29.pdf

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