This paper sheds light on the concept of complimenting, based on its practice in the Moore language spoken in Burkina Faso, West Africa. It revisits Holmes’ (1986) definition of “compliments” and proposes a model which gives new insight into the concept of complimenting behaviour across languages and cultures. The proposed model may have implications for our understanding of politeness strategies as proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987) , particularly with the urge to integrate third person in the model, as a close examination of data from Moore would suggest. The data analyzed were collected in naturally occurring discourse.

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根据布基纳法索的摩尔语言表扬的概念

本文基于在西非布基纳法索所讲的摩尔语言的实践，对称赞的概念进行了阐述。它回顾了Holmes（1986）对“称赞”的定义，并提出了一个模型，该模型对跨语言和文化的称赞行为的概念提供了新的见解。拟议的模型可能会对布朗和莱文森（1987）提出的礼貌策略的理解产生影响，特别是在将第三人称整合到模型中的冲动下，这是对摩尔数据的仔细研究表明的。分析的数据是在自然发生的话语中收集的。