Publications

Publication details [#43604]

Yu, Ming-Chung. 2005. Sociolinguistic competence in the complimenting act of Native Chinese and American English speakers: A mirror of cultural value. Language and Speech 48 (1) : 91–119.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complimenting | crosslinguistic perspective | language and culture | native speaker | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Chinese | English, American

Place, Publisher

Kingston Press

Journal WWW

www.catchword.com/titles/00238309.htm

Annotation

This paper compares and contrasts sociolinguistic characteristics of complimenting speech acts, formulated by native Chinese and native American speakers.