MCS 115: Oral and Interpersonal Communication

The present study takes a new sequential approach by investigating compliments in context, considering compliment form, as part of a positive remark continuum, with the respective response strategy uttered in response. The sequences suggest a connection between the address and reference terms in the positive remarks and the strategies chosen as a response.

This book compares the original version of the screenplay of the film Bamboozled with the Italian dubbed text, offering an analysis of forty-four compliments and forty-four insults.

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.

Includes two relevant chapters: "Surprise Her with Compliments" and "Graciously Receive Compliments"

Includes relevant chapter: "Learn to Take a Compliment"

Includes relevant chapter: "How to Handle Compliments"