Compliments and Compliment Responses: Grammatical Structure and Sequential Organization by Andrea GolatoISBN: 9789027294722
Publication Date: 2005-01-27
This book analyzes compliments and compliment responses in naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in German. Using conversation analytic methodology, it views complimenting and responding to compliments as social actions which are co-produced and negotiated among interactants. This study is the first to analyze the entire complimenting sequence within the larger interactional context, thereby demonstrating the interconnectedness of sequence organization, turn-design, and function of a turn.