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Compliment Responses in Marrakeshi Context |
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Finally in this discussion of complimenting behavior in marrakeshi context, it is useful to examine compliment responses.
What is clearly noticeable in the Marrakeshi compliment responses is that people are much more likely to either accept or
mitigate the force of the compliment than to reject it outright. If, as has been assumed, compliments function as social lubricants
and increase or consolidate the solidarity between the speaker and the addressee, it may be that, among Marrakeshi people,
rejecting compliments decreases that solidarity to such a degree that it is seldom used. /rbbi jxallik/ May God preserve you These expressions are most of the time considered as appropriate responses for many compliment situations and are widely used especially by women. Men, on their part, tend generally to mitigate the force of compliment either by shifting credit, requesting reassurance, or by providing an information comment.
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A research paper submitted to the department of English of Cadi Ayyad University |
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