Compliments and Positive Assessments
Subtitle: Sequential Organization in Multi-Party Conversations
Publisher: Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9789027264015
Subjects: Linguistics
Description: 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.