Compliment response is among the most common speech acts used in everyday conversations. Recipients’ responses to compliments differ depending on distinct social variables, including power, degree of intimacy, distance, culture and gender. The current study investigates Responses (henceforth, CRs) Moroccan male female EFL learners based four topics (ability, character, possession appearance). T...

Apology may be defined as “a compensatory action for an offense committed by the speaker which has affected hearer” (Marquez-Reiter, 2000, p. 44), and a compliment is another speech act "which explicitly or implicitly attributes credit to someone other than speaker... positively valued hearer" (Holmes, 1986, 485). The focus of this paper find out strategies are employed Turkish pre-service EFL ...

HDI’s interdisciplinary approach facilitates cu"ing edge and innovative solutions. HDI’s collaborative approach builds partnerships with churches, faith-based organizations, humanitarian organizations, private research organizations, individual scientific collaborators, academic centers, and state and federal agencies. Our aim is to compliment or extend the success of these organizations by joi...

Abstract This paper focusses on compliment responses in the context of group undergraduate student projects, a university Hong Kong. It applies Geoffrey Leech’s model politeness. Although less well known than some other politeness models, it has proved relatively popular studies responses, which are often said to involve clash between Maxim Agreement (achieved by agreeing with complimenter) and...

An important task for empathic agents is to provide social support, that is, to help alleviate emotional distress. In this paper, we select five types of verbal social support (sympathy, compliment, encouragement, advice, and teaching) and present our implementation in a prototype dialogue agent.

Future observations with ALMA will be able to detect star-forming primordial galaxies, and perhaps even their dwarf spheroidal satellites, in CO emission lines at redshifts approaching 10. These observations will compliment other tools designed to study the dawn of galaxy formation, such as NGST and FIRST.

Abstract Continuing advances in computer speed and the availability of user friendly software has made computational fluid dynamics a cost effective compliment and at times alternative to physical modeling in the field of civil engineering hydraulics. Validation of the CFD models for open channel flow conditions remains limited due to the significant cost of obtaining data. Furthermore, once th...