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SM ISO690:2012 FARENKIA, Bernard Milo. Speech acts and regional variations in french: the case of compliments on skills
in cameroon and Canadian french. In: Limbaj şi context. Revista internaţională de lingvistică, semiotică şi ştiinţă literară, 2011, nr. 2, pp. 182-200. ISSN 1857-4149. |
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Limbaj şi context. Revista internaţională de lingvistică, semiotică şi ştiinţă literară | ||||||
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The present study examines differences and similarities in the realization of compliments on skills in Cameroon and Canadian French. The data were collected by the means of a Discourse Completion Test (DCT) administered to 55 participants in Yaoundé (Cameroon) and 39 respondents in Montréal (Canada). The 278 compliments collected were analyzed according to the three super-strategies identified in the corpus, namely direct compliments, indirect compliments and compliments with external modification, i.e. supporting acts. The results show a strong preference for direct compliments in both sub-cultures. While the Cameroonian participants most frequently used double head acts, i.e. the combination of two
direct compliments, the Canadian informants mostly favoured single head acts, i.e. single direct compliment. Differences in terms of situational distribution of the direct compliments
were also identified. Moreover, the Cameroonian informants used six indirect compliments, while there was no occurrence of indirect compliments in the Canadian data. With regard to
the use of supportive moves to modify the compliments, the results reveal that ‘gratitude’, ‘wish’, ‘apology’ and ‘comment’ were largely used in both data sets, while some external modifiers such as ‘greeting’ and ‘self-introductions’ only appeared in the Cameroonian responses. |
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Cuvinte-cheie politeness, Cameroon French, Canadian French, compliment strategies, regional pragmatic variation. |
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