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Muy a tus órdenes: compliment responses among Mexican-American bilinguals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Guadalupe valdés  and
Cecilia Pino
Guadalupe valdés
Affiliation:
New Mexico State University
Cecilia Pino
Affiliation:
New Mexico State University
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Abstract

Recent work in the analysis of conversational discourse has included the study of compliment responses among English-speaking American monolinguals (Pomerantz 1978). This preliminary work suggests that compliment responses are subject to separate constraint systems that involve the receiver's obligation to respond to a compliment while at the same time avoiding self-praise.

This paper examines compliment responses, within the framework provided by Pomerantz, in conversational interactions between bilingual Mexican-American speakers. The strategies used by these speakers are compared with those used by monolingual English-speaking Americans and with those used by monolingual Spanish-speaking Latin Americans.

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Language in Society , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , April 1981 , pp. 53 - 72
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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