Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part C (2025)

The expressive speech act of compliment has received a great deal of study by linguists and researchers since it reflects the psychological states of the speaker identified in the propositional contents. Each speaker may find himself /herself tending to express approval many times daily about hearer's presence, behavior, characteristic …etc. Thus, compliments are common features of everyday speeches due to their great number offered and received.
The present research aims at: 
1.    Scrutinizing the theoretical views embraced by linguists and researchers concerning definitions, types, strategies and classifications of compliments as speech acts. 
2.    The central properties that differentiate compliments acts from other similar acts. 
3.    The functions of compliment as a speech act.
4.    The felicity conditions on the speech act of compliment as modified by the researcher.