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CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 1 Focus of this StudyF ocus on a classroom setting 2 Quantifiable results of complimentavoidance Study ofEnglish in the Midwest Importance to students and teachers Research Questions Organization ofthis study S CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 9 Definition ofImportant Terms 9 Politeness theory 1Î mportance of Speech Acts Cross-cultural comparisons ofspeech acts 1Ô verview of Compliments and Compliment Responses Compliments Social functions of compliments Status differences Gender differences 22 Semantic pattems Syntactic pattems Lexical pattems Topics Compliment responses Possible Reasons for Pattems CHAPTER 3. MATERIALS AND METHOD Methods of Data Collection Ethnography Elicitation Developing a Discourse Completion Test 34 Choosing subjects 35 Choosing test items 36 Length 38 Data Collection Procedure 38 Data Excluded from Analysis 39 Statistical Analysis 39 IV CHAPTER 4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 41 Male and Female Data Combined 41 Semantic patterns 43 Lexical patterns 44 Syntactic patterns 47 Status differences 49 Gender Based Analysis Status differences Semantic formulae 52 Lexical patterns Summary CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSION Summary ofresults Limitations ofthe Current Study 58 Areas for Further Research 60