Abstract
Using compliment as a speech act to examine the features of mode switching, Song conducted an empirical analysis using Korean learners of English and Americans as subjects. Both subject groups are college students. Compliment has a socially meaningful function to establish a good relationship with the addressee by expressing a positive evaluation which attributes the valued “good” to the addressee. For data collection, a discourse-completion CCSARP (Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project) questionnaire was created with seven hypothetical situations each of which leads to a possible answer of compliments.
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Song, S. (2018). Empirical Analysis. In: Second Language Acquisition as a Mode-Switching Process. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52436-2_7
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