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The difference between Chinese and Western compliments NO.1:Definition of compliments In the language and culture that Chinese and western people, compliment is one of the most common language for daily use, it plays a greeting, encourage, acknowledgements, open the topic and alleviate the contradiction etc.. So compliments are shared by English and Chinese culture formulaic speech act, known as the verbal gift, social lubricant However, influenced by their social psychology, cultural orientation, values and other factors, the topic, compliment structure model, response strategy aspects of a national culture deeply, to reflect the cultural characteristics of different nations. NO.2:the differences between Chinese and Western compliments (a), differences in compliments function: According to the investigation and statistics of Hao Bert, Holmes and Wolfson, the main function of compliments in western culture: 1) appreciated; 2) is due to peoples social status and role relationship is not fixed, especially women, use compliments to coordinate the relationship between the two sides of communication of consistency, which put it as a compliment a harmonious social relations, promote feelings or friendship each other means. According to Jia Yuxin (1997) survey, the main Chinese compliments in function: 1) to make each other feel good; 2) appreciation; 3) by others (b), the difference of the topic compliment: Compliment is a positive politeness strategy, positive evaluation of some superiority over others is carried out, the vast majority of compliment topic involving several appearance, behavior, ability, achievements and property and so on, especially to compliment others appearance and achievements for the worst. 1:Compliment others in appearance In Western cultures, men praise female body appearance, dress, etc., can be said to be very common thing, but, in Chinese traditional culture is the basic taboo. In Chinese, when male comp