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Janet Holmes
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What Holmes Believes About Language.
Politeness On Janet Holmes
Holmes suggests that women and men have different perceptions of what language is used for; Men use language as a tool to give and obtain information and women use it as a form of keeping in touch with others.
WHY HOLMES BELIEVES YOU GIVE A COMPLIMENT.
Usually intended to make others feel good. Serve to increase or consolidate the solidarity between the speaker and addressee. also she thinks complimentary language is a speech act that caters to positive face needs
Holmes' Research.
Holmes based her research on Brown and Levinson's idea of positive and negative face.
She says that women are more positively orientated politeness and rhat men use more negatively orientated politness .
WHAT IS A COMPLIMENT?
WHAT HOLMES THOUGHT
ABOUT MEN AND WOMENS POLITENESS.
. A compliment is a speech act which explicitly or implicitly attributes credit to someone other than the speaker, usually the person addressed, for some ‘good’ (possession, characteristic, skill, etc.) which is positively valued by the speaker and the hearer.