Traverso-Dimachki2017
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Traverso-Dimachki2017 |
| Author(s) | Véronique Traverso, Loubna Dimachki |
| Title | “ktîr Tajjibe ce plat! fî garlic?”: Compliments and assessments in French and Lebanese dinner talk |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, French, Lebanese, Compliments, Assessments, Turn design, Noticings |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Intercultural Pragmatics |
| Volume | 14 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 137-163 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1515/ip-2017-0008 |
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Abstract
In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of compliments and other evaluative comments in French and Lebanese Arabic. The analysis is based on naturally-occurring interactions, video-recorded during dinner invitations among friends and relatives. The analysis focuses on two specific types of compliments related to being offered and savoring food. The description takes into account not only the linguistic forms of assessments and compliments (on the syntactic and lexical levels), but also vocal productions like “hm”, as well as gestures, mimics, gaze and other multimodal resources. In the first part of the paper, we discuss the main aspects of previous studies on compliments that will be used as reference points for our own study. We then present the corpora we used and our methodology. The last part of the paper is devoted to the interactional multimodal analysis of specific types of compliments related to being offered food in the two corpora.
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