Compliment-rejection versus compliment-avoidance: Listener-based versus speaker-based pragmatic strategies

Herbert, Robert Κ.; Straight, H. Stephen

doi:10.1016/0271-5309(89)90005-0

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“…They include: (a) discourse completion tasks and questionnaires (e.g., Barnlund and Akari, 1985;Sharifian, 2005;Tang and Zhang, 2009), (b) recall protocols (e.g., Knapp et al, 1984), (c) role play (e.g., Saito and Beecken, 1997), (d) field observation (e.g., Wolfson and Manes, 1980;Herbert and Straight, 1989, and several others) and (e) conversation and discourse analysis (Pomerantz, 1978;Wieland, 1995;Golato, 2002). Golato (2003) discussed the merits and demerits of each of these methods of data collection, noting that each of them allows the researcher to investigate different facets of the topic at hand.…”

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On the Applicability of Cultural Scripts in Teaching L2 Compliments

Karimnia¹,

Afghari²

2010

ELT

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In this study, Natural Semantic Metalanguage (henceforth NSM) was used to carry out a comparative analysis. The compliment response behavior of native Persian speakers was compared with that of Native American English speakers to see if it can provide evidence for applicability of NSM model which is claimed to be universal. The descriptive technique was the cultural scripts approach, using conceptual primes proposed in the NSM theory. The cultural scripts were presented in both English and Persian Metalanguages. The data were taken from a corpus of 50 hours of recording the live interviews from the Persian and English TV channels. The results showed the applicability of NSM model for cross-cultural comparisons. Then, the paper concludes with the pedagogical implications of the development of the theory of cultural scripts for teaching L2 socio-pragmatics in general and compliments in particular.

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On the Applicability of Cultural Scripts in Teaching L2 Compliments

Karimnia¹,

Afghari²

2010

ELT

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“…(Holmes, 1988;Herbert & Straight, 1989;Chen, 1993) In Holmes's research on New Zealand English, he found out that people in New Zealand preferred to accept compliment more than people in Malay. In Herbert's research on Americans and South Africans, the result shows that in South African English CR, acceptance was applied twice as much as in American English.…”

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On the Pragmatic Patterns of Chinese College English Learners’ Compliment Responses

Bai¹

2015

IJEL

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The purpose of this research is to investigate the pragmatic features of Chinese college EFL learners' compliment responses (CR) in English. Since nowadays there is a large population learning English in China and there are limited researches on how the English language is used by Chinese EFL learners, to study the patterns of Chinese EFL learners' use of English is significant.The data of this study were collected by role play. Twelve short films which contain compliments from native English speakers were designed and recorded. These scenes were controlled by four variables: gender, social status, types of compliments and the formality of the situation. Then these short films were played to 360 Chinese undergraduate students which were divided into 12 groups. The compliment responses of these participants were recorded immediately. Then, these records were transcribed and the data was analyzed statistically with the reference of the four variables.The results of the analysis indicate that a majority of Chinese EFL learners tend to accept the compliment while seldom Chinese EFL learners still apply non agreement as their CR strategy. Also, Chinese EFL learners prefer to apply a mixed CR strategy when they are complimented and they prefer to accommodate a combined pragmatics which is based on Chinese and English pragmatics. Chinese EFL learners could respond to compliments in English in several CR strategies that did not discussed in previous studies. The four variables of gender, social status, types of compliments and the formality of the situation have a huge influence on Chinese English learners' responses to compliments in English.

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“…Nevertheless, as Nelson, Al-Batal and Echols (1996) note, although the work of Pomerantz (1978) is helpful in understanding how and why Americans compliment, it lacks a quantitative analysis of the type and the frequency of CRs. This shortfall was then supplied in Herbert's (1989) work. Herbert (1989) could be regarded as the first researcher to provide information on the frequency of some particular NES compliment response types.…”

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Strategies Employed by the Vietnamese to Respond to Compliments and the Influence of Compliment Receivers’ Perception of the Compliment on Their Responses

Pham

2014

IJL

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This research explores the strategies employed by the Vietnamese to respond to compliments and the influence of compliment receivers' perception of the compliment on their responses. Three hundred and sixty compliment/compliment response sequences were obtained from 120 extended interviews with 126 participants (6 interviewers and 120 interviewees). The conversations were tape-recorded. The interviewees' interpretation of their compliment responses was also recorded. The results show the Vietnamese have a high tendency to reject compliments because they want to be perceived as modest people by the compliment giver. The analysis of the compliment/compliment response sequences and of the participants' interpretation of their responses indicates that responding to compliments in Vietnamese is a complex speech act. Besides three major strategies used in compliment responses (i.e., acceptance, rejection and deflection), there are cases where the two opposite strategies acceptance and rejection appear in the same response. This reflects the Vietnamese tension between modesty/self-denying and self-appreciation. In other words, different principles involved in replying to compliments interact both between responses and within responses. The act of responding to compliments in Vietnamese is also complicated in that the receiver of the compliment can use the same strategy to convey different meanings. For example, in deflecting compliments the compliment receiver tends to shift the praised credit to other people, luck, fate or God to acknowledge their contribution. However, compliment receivers International Journal of Linguistics ISSN 1948-5425 2014 www.macrothink.org/ijl 154 also tend to use this strategy to show themselves to the complimenter as modest and tactful people, especially when they know that their credit shift does not influence the way the complimenter perceives the praised attribute.

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Compliment-rejection versus compliment-avoidance: Listener-based versus speaker-based pragmatic strategies

Cited by 93 publications

References 6 publications

On the Applicability of Cultural Scripts in Teaching L2 Compliments

On the Applicability of Cultural Scripts in Teaching L2 Compliments

On the Pragmatic Patterns of Chinese College English Learners’ Compliment Responses

Strategies Employed by the Vietnamese to Respond to Compliments and the Influence of Compliment Receivers’ Perception of the Compliment on Their Responses

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