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The communicative act of replying to compliments has been studied in different languages but never in Vietnamese The literature on cross-cultural pragmatics
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German speakers, however, have been proven to accept compliments more frequently In American English, too, compliments are often accepted with an agreement
The data consists of 50 English and 50 Turkish compliments naturally agree or accept a Compliment, none of the speakers use an appreciation marker
Keywords: compliment, compliment response, face, Irish English, Mexican Spanish, politeness Resumen are found to prefer an accepting strategy over all
Keywords: Politenes; compliments; gender studies; Spanish; ethnography Studies on compliment responses in Spanish Accepting represents 27 and
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responses and structural, topical and functional patterns of compliments in Nvivo Culture and language have always been accepted as intricately interwoven It has others and strengthen social rapport in English and Spanish (2013)
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