Employing a cross-generational perspective, this study attempts to deepen our understanding of the politeness strategies Saudi females use when responding to compliments in English from an English speaker. The study investigated how Saudi females from two generations respond to compliments in an educational setting in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Participants included sixty-two female undergraduate students and sixty-four female lecturers from one university in the KSA. Following a mixed methods approach, the study included two primary sources of data: a quantitative Discourse Completion Task questionnaire for eliciting compliment responses (CRs) from the two generations; and qualitative semi-structured interviews with six participants from each group. Findings indicate that participants from both groups tended to accept compliments although there was a tendency to question the sincerity of the compliments.

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对英语语言能力赞美的回应

这项研究采用跨代的视角，试图加深我们对沙特女性在回应英语人士的英语赞美时所使用的礼貌策略的理解。该研究调查了沙特阿拉伯王国（KSA）教育环境中两代沙特女性如何回应赞美。参与者包括来自沙特阿拉伯一所大学的 62 名女本科生和 64 名女讲师。该研究采用混合方法，包括两个主要数据来源：定量话语完成任务问卷，用于引出两代人的赞美反应（CR）；对每组六名参与者进行定性半结构化访谈。调查结果表明，两组参与者都倾向于接受赞美，尽管倾向于质疑赞美的诚意。