A contrastive study of compliment responses among Australian English and Mandarin Chinese speakers

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A contrastive study of compliment responses among Australian English and Mandarin Chinese speakers

This study investigates compliment responses (CRs) among Australian English and Mandarin Chinese speakers. The data werecollected through the use of written discourse completion tasks, with four situational settings (appearance, character, ability andpossession).Atotal of 60 university-student infor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Tang, C., Zhang, Grace
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier BV 2008
Subjects:	Cross-cultural communication Speech acts Australian English Politeness Compliment responses Chinese
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6234

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