چکیده مقاله
This research aims to investigate the effects of three social factors age, gender, and social status on compliment response patterns in Persian To this aim, an open ended written discourse completion task DCTs was developed including eight situations in each of which the respondents received a compliment for their appearance, character, ability, or possession: once from a friend equal position and then from someone of a higher social position unequal position The DCTs were completed by 400 native speakers of Persian 100 boys and 100 girls aged between aged 15 and 18, and 100 male and 100 female teachers aged above 30 The collected data were coded following Herbert's 1986 model with a minor modification proposed by Yousefvand 2010 and were then analyzed to obtain the frequency and percentage of different types of compliment responses and to see if the effect of the social factors is meaningful The results of the study not only emphasize the difference between different response patterns to compliments among various social groups but have some educational functions, particularly they help non Persian speakers respond to ccomplimentsconsidering speakers’ culture and social factors
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نویسندگان
Hossein Aryaeefar
Ph D in Linguistics, IHCS, Linguistics Department
Neda Keikhaie
MA in linguistics, Shiraz University, Goreign Languages and Linguistics faculty, Shiraz, Iran
شیوه ارجاع
Aryaeefar, Hossein and Keikhaie, Neda,1401,An investigation of complement response strategies in Persian: effects of age, gender, and social position,Twelfth International Conference on the Study of Language, Literature, Culture and History
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مجموعه مقالات دوازدهمین کنفرانس بین المللی مطالعات زبان،ادبیات، فرهنگ و تاریخ16 تیر 1401