Compliment responses in English and Turkish with implications for language learning

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Uludağ Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2003

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: DERYA TÜZÜN

Danışman: İSMET ÖZTÜRK

Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu

Özet:

The present study was conducted to investigate compliment response strategies used by Turkish EFL learners, gender differences in the strategies and the comparison between Turkish and English compliment responses. Also, the linguistic realization of the strategies was investigated. The subjects were 67 students in a private high school in Bursa.( 35 female and 32 male students) Date were collected by the use of DCT. The data revealed that compliment response strategies in Turkish how similarities with English compliment response strategies. The findings suggest that both Turkish and English speakers tend to accept or agree while responding to a compliment. The rejection and downgrading strategies were less frequently used in the two languages. It was found that in responding to compliments two languages were very close and cross- cultural communication can become unproblematic. The study has implication for language pedagogy and textbook writing.