Compliments and positive assessments sequential organization in multi-party conversations
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2018.
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| Series: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
v. 289. |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Philosophische Fakultät, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2012. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027264015 9027264015 |