Praising and complimenting

Lewandowska‐Tomaszczyk, Barbara

doi:10.1075/pbns.3.08lew

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“…Explicit compliments are generally direct and unambiguous positive remarks that contain at least one positive semantic carrier (Ye 1995;Yu 2005;Yuan 2002). On the other hand, implicit compliments, without a positive lexical item at the level of linguistic form (Ye 1995;Yu 2005), require more inferences from the addressee to reconstruct the implicated meaning (Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 1989;Yu 2005). The definition by Holmes (1988) also indicates that compliments are associated with such topics as appearance, possessions, achievements, and personality traits (Daikuhara 1986;Herbert 1997;Holmes 1986Holmes , 1995Knapp et al 1984;Wang and Tsai 2003;Wolfson 1989a;Yu 2005;Yuan 2002).…”

Section: Defining Complimentsmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…There have been a number of compliment studies in different varieties of English and other western languages (Herbert 1989(Herbert , 1990Holmes 1988Holmes , 1995Knapp et al, 1984;Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 1989;Manes and Wolfson 1981;Parisi and Wogan 2006;Wolfson 1984Wolfson , 1989aWolfson , 1989b. Nevertheless, Chinese compliments have received relatively less attention in the literature.…”

Section: Empirical Studies On Chinese Complimentsmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Explicit compliments are generally direct and unambiguous positive remarks that contain at least one positive semantic carrier (Ye 1995;Yu 2005;Yuan 2002). On the other hand, implicit compliments, without a positive lexical item at the level of linguistic form (Ye 1995;Yu 2005), require more inferences from the addressee to reconstruct the implicated meaning (Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 1989;Yu 2005). For example, someone compliments another's handbag by saying, 你的包包好漂亮啊!…”

Section: Complimentsmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Variational Pragmatics in Chinese: Some insights from an empirical study

Ren¹,

Woodfield²

2013

Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics

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Section: Defining Complimentsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Empirical Studies On Chinese Complimentsmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Explicit compliments are generally direct and unambiguous positive remarks that contain at least one positive semantic carrier (Ye 1995;Yu 2005;Yuan 2002). On the other hand, implicit compliments, without a positive lexical item at the level of linguistic form (Ye 1995;Yu 2005), require more inferences from the addressee to reconstruct the implicated meaning (Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 1989;Yu 2005). For example, someone compliments another's handbag by saying, 你的包包好漂亮啊!…”

Section: Complimentsmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Variational Pragmatics in Chinese: Some insights from an empirical study

Ren¹,

Woodfield²

2013

Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics

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“…For example, a communicator who says: 'This cake recipe is lovely. I wish I could try it out one day' indirectly communicates her request that the hearer give her the cake recipe, but she may also be hoping that the hearer will offer to make the cake for her or offer to show her how to make the cake (see Herbert 1989, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 1989. This and many other similar examples show that there is a fine line between what a compliment communicates indirectly and what is not communicated, but is, rather, a personal, covert, goal that the speaker hopes to achieve by paying the compliment.…”

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Compliments and Refusals in Poland and England

Bhatti

Žegarac

2012

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Abstract There are significant cross-cultural differences in the way compliments and refusals are made and responded to. The investigation of these speech acts touches on some interesting issues for pragmatic theory: the relation between the universal and the culturespecific features of complimenting and refusing, the importance of culture specific strategies in explaining how these speech acts are produced and responded to, as well as the relation between the message conveyed by a compliment or refusal and its affective/emotional effects on the hearer. The pilot study presented in this paper investigates the production and reception of compliments and refusals in the relatively proximate cultures of England and Poland. The findings reveal significant systematic cross-cultural differences relating to refusals, while the differences relating to compliments are fewer and more subtle. The data suggests that the cross-cultural similarities and differences observed can be explained in terms of (a) a universalist view of institutional speech acts and face concerns in rapport management, (b) the Relevancetheoretic view of communication and cognition as oriented towards maximising informativeness and (c) some culture-specific values. These tentative conclusions are based on very limited data and indicate useful directions for future research.

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“…This observation has forced some studies to make a general distinction between compliments and some other speech acts such as praises, congratulations, appreciation and other positive evaluative statements (Holmes, 1988;Kerbrat-Orechioni, 1987;Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, 1989;Maradin, 1987;Norrick, 1980 and others). For example, Holmes (1988) noted that not all positive statements and praises are compliments.…”

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Approaches to Identifying the Compliment Data

Mustapha¹

2012

IJEL

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Scholars' interest in the speech act of complimenting has grown over the years for many reasons one of which is its being robust with sociolinguistic information. However, it appears that many studies still grapple with what the compliment is because of its nature which has been described to be naturally ubiquitous and many times overlapping with other speech functions. In addition, fieldwork experiences have also called for the need to define the compliment although some scholars have argued that there is no need to define the act. In this paper, we glean from fieldwork experiences and data analysis in a study of 1200 compliments in Nigerian English to support the claim that a definition is needful and to propose some defining characteristics (termed approaches) that might be useful for those researching on the compliment data.

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Praising and complimenting

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Variational Pragmatics in Chinese: Some insights from an empirical study

Variational Pragmatics in Chinese: Some insights from an empirical study

Compliments and Refusals in Poland and England

Approaches to Identifying the Compliment Data

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