不同学习者英语恭维及应答策略使用的比较研究-外国语言学与应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

i i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to avail myself of this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to all those who have offered me help in the course of writing the thesis. My thanks are particularly extended to Associate Professor *** my supervisor, who has struck me with her expertise on which my thesis is based and constructed. I am grateful to her for her kindly ideas, invaluable suggestions, and inspiring comments, without which, the completion of the present dissertation would have been impossible. Likewise, I express my heartfelt gratitude to all the teachers of the College of International Studies of Guizhou University, most especially, Professor Wang Zhiyun, Li Binglin, and Associate Professors Zeng Xianmo, Jin Dingyuan and Zhou Lin, whose lectures and courses serve as an unfailing source of knowledge and inspiration in my future study. I am grateful to my dear friends, most especially to Katrina and Wang Jiedan, who have helped me conduct the experiment and collect materials. Lastly, I would like to express my indebtedness to my dear father, mother and little brother, who has not only given me the necessary moral support but has also offered me many good suggestions and help. ABSTRACT A Comparative Study of the Usage of English Compliment and Compliment Response Strategies by Different Learners Specialty: Foreign Linguistics Applied Linguistics Orientation: Pragmatics Supervisor: Duan Lingli M.A. Candidate: Xu Fengxiang [Abstract] With the increasingly rapid development of international communication, it becomes more and more crucial to cultivate and improve peoples intercultural communicative competence in meeting the demands of an integrated society and world. Compliment is a kind of positive speech acts. Considering its frequent usage in daily life and its important function of greasing people’s social relationships, the present study analyzes the preferred compliment strategies and compliment response st