The present study aimed at examining the knowledge of Iranian EFL learners in responding
to compliments in English, with a focus on the variables of gender, age and educational …

Although the literature on compliments and compliment responses is abundant, very few
studies have examined complimenting behaviour and the influence of gender on …

This study illustrates how compliments and compliment response strategies differ across
gender among celebrities in Malaysia. The objective of the study is to identify the functions …

This study was conducted to examine compliment responses among Jordanian university
students. It aims to explore the use of compliment responses among Jordanian, and …

Paying complements is probably a universal phenomenon. However, differences arise when
the interlocutors attempt to respond the complements in different cultures. This study …

Launched in February 2004 and pursuing its mission of “giving people the power to share
and make the world more open and connected,” Facebook (FB) is now considered to be a …

Speech carries, in addition to its propositional meaning, the functional intentions of the
speaker (illocution). Persian language is governed by norms the realization of which makes …

The present study aimed at investigating the effect of the social variable of education on the
use of compliments and compliment responses in Persian. To this end, a Discourse …

The advanced Iranian EFL students are capable of producing grammatically correct
sentences, but they have a lot of gaps, lack of variety and form-function clashes in …

ABSTRACT A number of researches on compliments and compliment responses (CRs)
have been done from cross-cultural perspectives; however, few attempts have been made to …