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2021/3/27 * 4. Compliments Case 2 At a reception at an American college, Mr. Chen, a newly-arrived Chinese scholar, was chatting with the hostess. As an acquaintance of the hostess approached, she said, “Ron, let me introduce Mr. Chen, an outstanding physicist and one of the nicest people I know.” Mr. Chen offered his hand to the newcomer but looked at the hostess and said with a smile, “Should I blush, or should I tell him you don’t really mean it?” 2021/3/27 * Comments In both cases, the words of the Chinese conveyed a message quite different from what was intended. In the first case, the reply could have meant that the American did not know what a really good dress is. Otherwise, how could she get so excited about an ordinary dress? The implication was that the American woman’s taste in clothing was questionable. 2021/3/27 * Comments In the second case, if Chen had not been smiling, his words could have been interpreted as: “You’re just saying that to be polite; you don’t really mean that.” So in the first case, the implication was that American woman had poor judgment, while in the second one, the hostess was not sincere. What a gap between that intention and the message! 2021/3/27 * 4. Compliments The Semantic Formula English compliments often contain one of a highly restricted set of adjectives and verbs. This was a great meal. You look so nice today. You did a good job. I like your haircut. I love your glasses. I really enjoyed you class. Of all the complimets, 80 percent are of the adjectival type and 16 percent make use of verbs. 2021/3/27 * 4. Compliments The Semantic Formula In Chinese, however, positive words expressing compliments are mainly adjectives and adverbs. 裙子真漂亮。Your skirt is very pretty. 这房间真不错。This room is really good. 你进步很快。You make progress very rapidly. 你待人真好。You treat pelple sincerely. Another linguistic feature of Chinese compliments is that many of them begin with the pronouns “you” or “your”, while in English compliments the pronoun
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