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Pragmatic Competence of Complimenting among Female Omani EFL College Students: A Sociolinguistic Study Pragmatic Competence of Complimenting among Female Omani EFL College Students: A Sociolinguistic Study
The importance of pragmatic competence in language teaching and learning has been highlighted in many studies; however, scarcity of such studies in the Omani context can be easily identified. The study investigates how female Omani higher education students express compliments in English and whether these are pragmatic …