Responses of children to compliments : a sociolinguistic study

العناوين الأخرى

استجابات الأطفال لضروب الثناء : دراسة لغوية اجتماعية

مقدم أطروحة جامعية

al-Faqir, Husayn Khalid

مشرف أطروحة جامعية

Kanakri, Mahmud Ali

أعضاء اللجنة

al-Sakarnah, Ahmad Khalaf
al-Jarrah, Muhammad Ali
al-Salman, Mahmud Ahmad

الجامعة

جامعة مؤتة

الكلية

كلية الآداب

القسم الأكاديمي

قسم اللغة الإنجليزية و آدابها

دولة الجامعة

الأردن

الدرجة العلمية

ماجستير

تاريخ الدرجة العلمية

2006

الملخص الإنجليزي

This study provides a preliminary analysis of children's responses to compliments in Jordanian Arabic from a sociolinguistic point of view.

The study approaches the pragmatic and sociolinguistic characteristics of children's responses based on a corpus of 418 compliment responses by the use of Brown and Levinson's model of politeness theory (1978, 1987).

The study aims to explore the strategies used by children in responding to compliments, compare compliment responses strategies of children with those of adults, discover similarities and differences in responding to compliments between boys and girls, examine the influence of gender, family, friends, and the like on the type of response a child gives, and inspect the child's ability to indicate whether a compliment is sarcastic or sincere.

The complimenting behavior of children has been investigated, by the use of Fergal and Al-Khatib's (2001) scheme of compliment responses, in terms of simple vs.

complex responses.

Results of the study indicate that children employ simple responses more frequently than complex responses.

Results also show that one of the most salient fractures of children's language is the extensive use of non-verbal responses.

The body of compliment responses recorded from children's data in the present study indicates the rich variety of children's complex responses.

Results point to boys' tendency to construct and initiate competitive discourse and girls' tendency to initiate language that can be described as caring and affectionate.

Results also indicate that most children between 6-9 years old have no problems in understanding literal compliments.

But, some problems appear with respect to understanding ironic compliments.

In the case of children who are 10-12 years old, there seems to be no problems as most of these children comprehend literal compliments and ironic compliments like adults.

التخصصات الرئيسية

العلوم الاجتماعية (متداخلة التخصصات)
علم النفس

الموضوعات

• علم النفس
• الأطفال
• التقييم
• السلوك
• الأردن
• اللهجات
• اللغة العربية

عدد الصفحات

120

قائمة المحتويات

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

نوع البيانات

رسائل جامعية

رقم السجل

BIM-304403