Jordanian males and females' compliments in different social contexts : strategies and functions

العناوين الأخرى

المجاملات عند الأردنيين و الأردنيات في المواقف الاجتماعية المختلفة : استراتيجيات و وظائف

مقدم أطروحة جامعية

Ghanim, Samah Naim Hasan

مشرف أطروحة جامعية

Husayn, Riyad

أعضاء اللجنة

Jalabnah, Atif Mustafa Muflih
Khafaji, Rasul
al-Qudah, Mahmud

الجامعة

جامعة الشرق الأوسط

الكلية

كلية الآداب و العلوم

القسم الأكاديمي

قسم اللغة الإنجليزية

دولة الجامعة

الأردن

الدرجة العلمية

ماجستير

تاريخ الدرجة العلمية

2009

الملخص الإنجليزي

The study reported here aimed at exploring different strategies employed by both males and females while exchanging compliments in different social contexts and settings, in addition to examining femalemale acceptance of compliments from the opposite sex in different contexts.

The main functions of exchanging compliments as perceived by both genders were also elicited from the body of the questionnaire distributed to 180 male and female students at Al-Isra Private University in addition to the most frequent type of compliments used by both of them.

Analysis of the data suggested that males tend to utilize hypocrisy when complimenting their superiors at work, more than females do.

Elaborated and exaggerated forms of compliments were employed more by females on certain social occasions; whereas, males tended to add humorous effect to their compliments in such situations more than females.

In friendship conversation, both genders, while attending for a friend's behavior, tended to be more supportive and encouraging and compliments with sarcasm accompanied with irony provide a good strategy for saving the face of the speaker.

The study also found that males seemed to accept females' compliments in different contexts as opposed to females' rejection of males' compliments in specific situations such as: appearance and clothes.

Moreover, the findings showed that both men and women compliment women mostly on appearance then personality followed by ability and women compliment men mostly on ability first then possession while men compliment men on possession first then ability .

Women complimented each other on appearance more than on any other topic while men were less accustomed to receive admiration related to physical appearance from either men or women.

Thus, the highest percentage of females tends to pay compliments mainly as a kind of social involvement more than males do.

On the other hand, males considered compliments as means of gaining promotion at work.

The study concluded with some recommendations calling for further research.

التخصصات الرئيسية

اللغات والآداب المقارنة

عدد الصفحات

108

قائمة المحتويات

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

نوع البيانات

رسائل جامعية

رقم السجل

BIM-692015