Compliments are great.Maybe someone does well on a test.Praise them for their good work.Say,"Good job!"or"I'm proud of you!"Someone may have a wonderful idea.Then you can say,"That’s a great idea!"
With the continuous advancement of globalization and the growing international trade,international business negotiations are crucial to the success of trade.In human verbal communication,compliment is a frequently use...
Compliment as a speech act is a tool for establishing friendship that creates ties of solidarity in different cultures.This paper introduces the background theories concerning studies of the speech act of complimentin...
The present study investigated the linguistic features of a special speech act,compliments produced by two groups of Chinese learners of English,one living in China's Mainland(EFL)and the other in Malaysia(ESL).This s...
At the era of information and technology,the advancement of education is closely related to the internet.Flipped classes,micro-lectures,e-learning and blended learning are widely used in English teaching.This paper is...
There is a new craze among young people—flocking to so-called kuakuaqun, or flattery groups, on the Internet, where they praise one an other, at times even paying to be exaggeratedly complimented.
Compliments are always sweet to ears,but sometimes,they are burdensome and unwanted.Due to cultural differences,people in different countries have different reactions towards compliments.Facing the unwanted compliment...
Through comparing the data collected in different time, this paper explores the changes of Chinese compliments and compliment responses during the recent fifteen years, and also studies the differences of compliments ...
As a type of polite speech in interpersonal communication,compliments show the speaker’s praises for certain advantages of the listener.Through compliments,the speaker shows friendliness and hopes to build up social ...
Compliments and their responses are special speech actions which are broadly used in interpersonal communications.And how to give compliments and respond to them constitute a significant part of the communicative comp...