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Publication details [#51000]

Tang, Chen-Hsin and Grace Qiao Zhang. 2009. A contrastive study of compliment responses among Australian English and Mandarin Chinese speakers. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (2) : 325–345.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complimenting | explicitness | implicit assertion | language and culture | response

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin | English, Australian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses culturally grounded differences in compliment responses (CR) among Australian English and Mandarin Chinese speakers. The latter prefer an implicit and ‘detouring’ approach, the former explicit compliment responses and more response efforts.