Adopting a discursive approach to politeness (see, for example, Mills 2011), this paper explores spontaneous naturally occurring compliment responses (CRs) in Chinese from a cross-generational perspective. It aims to extend our understanding of the dynamic nature of face and/or politeness in contemporary Chinese. 16 multiparty conversations among two generations of the Chinese in China’s mainla...

The current study aims at exploring the difference between male and female Jordanian university students with regard to their compliment responses on Facebook. It also investigates when they respond compliments offered by opposite sex. is based a corpus consisting of 233 collected from comments Facebook posts. data analysis was Herbert’s (1986) taxonomy response strategies. Findings this resear...

This research studies about expressive speech act in Crazy Rich Asian movie, the objectives of are to describe (1) analyze type found movie and (2) S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G model used movie. theory from Searle (1985) Hymes (1974) analyzing data. There twelve mentioned by Searle; apologize, thank, condole, congratulate, complain, lament, protest, deplore, boast, compliment, greet, welcome. descriptive qu...

In an interesting study, Verkasalo et al. (1) found some support for lower breast cancer risks in long sleepers in Finland. The authors appropriately embedded their discussion in the existing literature, insofar as they point to prior studies into possible links between long sleep and mortality. Indeed, the recent review by Youngstedt and Kripke (2) evinced that sleeping beyond 8 hours could be...

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Using a simple numerical method, we compute the stability of the MSSM vacuum with respect to tunneling. The stability criterion is then used to put restrictions on the mass parameters. These restrictions are necessary conditions for the vacuum stability and compliment the existing sufficiency conditions obtained analytically. e-mail address: [email protected] e-mail address: ricardor@physic...