چکیده:
Compliments (Cs) and compliment responses have been a prevailing topic of study in pragmatics due to their pivotal role in effective intercultural and transcultural interactions. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of research on compliments in the Persian language conducted over almost about the past four decades. It summarizes key findings of compliments in the Persian language used by Iranian speakers of Persian, discusses the significance of these findings, and speculates the future directions of research on complimenting studies on Persian language. An extensive bibliographical search on studies on this particular area yielded a database of nine studies on Persian Cs for this systematic review. After a brief exploration of the background of compliment studies done by prominent scholars in other languages, we provide a working definition of compliments. We then examine studies to date of complimenting behavior in Persian, highlighting similarities and differences, and any emerging trends. We provide a synthesis of the research conducted in this area, the theoretical frameworks, and the methodologies used in different studies, including data collection and data analysis. Based on the review of previous studies, we speculate on some possible directions for future research in this area.
خلاصه ماشینی:
A Systematic Review of Compliments among Iranian Persian Speakers: Past, Present, and Future Directions* Ali Derakhshan (Corresponding author) ** Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran.
com Introduction The indispensable role of pragmatics in learning, teaching, assessment, and research in English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts has been acknowledged over the last four decades (Birjandi & Derakhshan, 2014; Chalak & Abbasi, 2015; Cohen, 2018; Culpeper, Mackey, & Taguchi, 2018; Derakhshan, 2015, 2019a; Derakhshan & Arabmofrad, 2018; Derakhshan & Eslami, 2015, 2020; Derakhshan, Shakki, & Sarani, in press; Eslami & Derakhshan, 2019, 2020; Eslami, 2005; Ishihara, & Cohen, 2014; Malmir & Derakhshan, 2020; Sonnenburg-Winkler, Eslami, & Derakhshan, in press; Taguchi, 2019; Taguchi & Kim, 2018).
Its importance in intercultural and intracultural communication has inspired scholars to investigate complimenting behavior in different languages, resulting in numerous studies that have been accumulated in the field of pragmatics (cf.
This study is the first systematic review of research conducted to examine the speech act of compliment on the Persian language.
Having reviewed the basic definitions and functions of compliments, compliment topics, linguistic patterns, methods of data collection, and the classification schemes and theoretical frameworks used by different researchers, we now provide a systematic review of the studies done on compliments in Persian language.
Some of them (Boroujeni, Domakani, & Sheykhi, 2016; Karimnia & Afghari, 2010, 2011; Sadeghi & Zarei, 2013; Sorahi & Nazemi, 2013; Yousefvand, 2010) included compliment in their titles, but their research questions focused on CRs. Finally, nine articles were selected for conducting a systematic review and for further analysis.