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This paper aims at finding compliments in Sasak in nggeto-nggete dialect and find out how compliments and responses the compliment in Sasak, this paper examine the structure of compliments with regard to Brown & Levinson and Austin while complimenting responses with regard to Herbert & Straight and leech. This study is qualitative, attempting to describe data, represented in the form of words. During collecting data, utterances were recorded directly by a set of tape-recorders then transcribed into spoken text. Later, the recorded data were analyzed using Brown & Levinson and Austin to analyze compliments and Herbert & Straight and leech to analyze compliment responses. The result showed that young sasakness in doing compliments directly while in doing compliment responses probably in rejection to Minimize the expression of impolite beliefs and Maximize the expression of polite beliefs.