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This study investigates compliment responses (CR) among Australian English and Mandarin Chinese speakers. The data were collected through the use of written discourse completion tasks (DCT), with four situational settings (appearance, character, ability and possession). A total of 60 university-student informants participated in the study. The findings demonstrate a consistent tendency across the...
Responding to a compliment poses a dilemma for speakers (Pomerantz, 1978) because they have to balance two diametrically conflicting conversational principles: to agree with one's conversational coparticipants and to avoid self-praise (Herbert, 1989). Far from being universal, the solution to the above dilemma hinges upon politeness principles at work within and across societies (Brown and Levinson,...
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