This study aims at investigating compliment responses of female and male Turkish university students in different situations. The data were collected through a written discourse completion task under four situational settings: appearance, performance, character, possession. 100 undergraduate (50 males 50 females) participated the study. Holmes’s (1988a, 1988b) macro micro categories adapted dev...

Abstract: Indonesians and Americans have the strategies to respond compliment which came from different culture. The aims of this research were addressing types disclosing direct indirect response used by compliments. data consist English Indonesian. was analyzed using qualitative method. Discourse Completion Test (DCT) questionnaire know differences between given Americans. result showed that ...