Compliments and Positive Assessments

Download or read book Compliments and Positive Assessments written by Susanne Strubel-Burgdorf and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compliments are among the most widely studied speech acts in pragmatics. The present study takes a new sequential approach by investigating compliments in context, considering compliment form, as part of a Positive Remark continuum, with the respective Response Strategy uttered in response. Analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively in multi-party conversations of the Santa Barbara Corpus of American English, the sequences suggest a connection between the address and reference terms in the Positive Remarks and the strategies chosen as a response.