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A Critique of “Contrastive Analysis of Compliment between English and Chinese ” Introduction of the article Rui Yu, Li Fu Xiao-Yu Hou’ s “Contrastive Analysis of Compliment between English and Chinese” is a classic in intercultural communication studies. It is published in Journal of Intercultural Communication StudiesXVI, 2007, Volume 1, Pages 153-162. 2. Analysis of the article The social phenomenon of compliment behavior exists in various societies and linguistic cultures. The compliment behavior can not only enhance the relationship between communicators but also consolidate and strengthen the solidarity among communicators. Thus, the compliment behavior operates like social lubricant. Compliment responses in Chinese and English have different characteristics because they are influenced by different social factors. Consequently, the study on compliment has been paid extensive attention to.This thesis aims at investigating the characteristics of compliment responses in Chinese and English, comparing their differences and similarities and attempting to analyze the reasons which lead to the differences and similarities from cross-cultural perspective.Based on Julia Gousseva’s experiment, a similar experiment was designed and carried out by the present author. The purposes were to find the features of compliment in Chinese by Chinese students, to discover similarities and differences of compliment between English and Chinese and to explore the reasons why the differences in linguistic performance exist. This article provides deeper research on this subject and examines genre of written discourse. Most of previous studies abroad and in China focus on the syntax and the topic of compliment behavior itself. This article also claims that most of the studies,such as its function,implication,and causes are based mostly on the study on the oral compliment. As for the oral compliment,this paper shows it very clear in the literature review. And it demonstra