The research of D.H.and T.B.is supported in part by the DFG(SFB/TRR167,ID259373024,A07);T.B.is supported by the Alzheimer Forschung Initiative e.V.(AFI).
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This article reviews the notions of transfer and its subcategories of positive transfer as well as negative transfer.This article also considers the research on pragmatic transfer in the speech act of compliment in fi...
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...
Researchers have revealed valuable insights into complimenting behaviors in a variety of contexts in the past decades. However, few documents about complimenting in the context of teaching and education can be found, ...
Chinese compliment response strategies are different from western’s.According to the investigation of Chinese politeness,the compliment strategies,and the analysis of the examples,writer summarizes Chinese strategies...
Gender differences in language use are common, especially in compliments. This paper intends to offer a pragmatic analysis of gender difference on compliment from six aspects: syntactic form, lexical choice, person fo...
By taking an empirical approach, the paper addresses the compliment-responses taking place in the Chinese televised talk and attempts to find out the different functions realized by the different linguistic forms in s...
The purpose of this empirical study is to investigate the employment of the strategies among the Chinese college-level English learners in responding to compliments and the negative pragmatic transfer involved in thei...