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Title | Giving and Receiving Compliments in Spanish |
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Source | CASLS Spotlight |
Body | Valeria Ochoa is a graduate student in the Language Teaching Specialization program at the University of Oregon. Compliments can be used for a variety of communicative functions. Some of the most common ways compliments are used in Spanish are: as ice-breakers, solidarity building strategies, and to flirt. Meanwhile, compliments in English are usually used to: express admiration of someone’s work/appearance/taste, establish/confirm solidarity, serve as an alternative to greetings/gratitude/apologies/congratulations, soften face-threatening acts, open and sustain conversation, and reinforce desired behavior (Ishihara and Cohen, 2010). This lesson focuses on the ice-breaker and solidarity building functions in Spanish, and compares these to the English functions/strategies. Also, per Brown and Levinson (1987), responding to compliments can be quite complicated since responses can rely on politeness principles within societies. Due to the differences in responses to compliments in English and Spanish, the lesson will also cover pragmatically appropriate ways to respond to compliments in Spanish. It was designed for a university level accelerated first year Spanish course. Sources: CARLA. Dancing with Words retrieved from http://carla.umn.edu/speechacts/sp_pragmatics/Compliments/compliments_home.html. Alba-Juez, L. (2001). Some discourse strategies used to convey praise and/or positive feelings in Spanish everyday conversations. In Campos, H., Herburger, E., Morales-Front, A. & Walsh, T. J. (Eds.), Hispanic Linguistics and the Turn of the Millennium: Papers from the 3rd Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 364-80). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Brown, P., & Levinson, S. (1987). Politeness: Some Universals in Language Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ishihara, N., & Cohen, A. D. (2010). Teaching and learning pragmatics: Where language and culture meet. Routledge. Lorenzo-Dus, N. (2001). Compliment responses among British and Spanish university students: A contrastive study. Journal of Pragmatics, 33, 107-27. Manes, J., & Wolfson, N. (1981). The compliment formula. Conversational routine: Explorations in standardized communication situations and prepatterned speech, 115-132. Valdés, G. & Pino, C. (1981). Muy a tus órdenes: Compliment responses among Mexican-American bilinguals. Language and Society, 10, 53-72. Learning objectives:
Modes: Interpersonal Communication Materials needed: Handout Procedure:
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Publishdate | 2017-03-13 02:15:03 |