Compliments and compliment responses across cultures and gender : A case of a British and American TV show 'The Office'

Kedveš, Ana

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Compliments and compliment responses across cultures and gender

Ana Kedveš (2011)

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Kedveš, A. (2011). Compliments and compliment responses across cultures and gender : A case of a British and American TV show 'The Office' (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:723190

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Kedveš, Ana. "Compliments and compliment responses across cultures and gender : A case of a British and American TV show 'The Office'." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2011. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:723190

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Kedveš, A. (2011). 'Compliments and compliment responses across cultures and gender : A case of a British and American TV show 'The Office'', Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 19 August 2019, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:723190

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Kedveš A. Compliments and compliment responses across cultures and gender : A case of a British and American TV show 'The Office' [Master's thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2011 [cited 2019 August 19] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:723190

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A. Kedveš, "Compliments and compliment responses across cultures and gender : A case of a British and American TV show 'The Office'", Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2011. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:723190

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Title	Compliments and compliment responses across cultures and gender : A case of a British and American TV show 'The Office'
Title (croatian)	Komplimenti i odgovori na komplimente između kultura i rodova: primjer britanske i američke tv serije "The Office"
Author	Ana Kedveš
Mentor	Tanja Gradečak-Erdeljić (mentor)
Committee member	Gabrijela Buljan (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee member	Tanja Gradečak-Erdeljić (član povjerenstva)
Committee member	Mario Brdar (član povjerenstva)
Granter	Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Department of English Language and Literature) Osijek
Defense date and country	2011-09-21, Croatia
Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline	HUMANISTIC SCIENCES Philology Anglistics
Abstract	Compliments constitute an important aspect of humans' everyday communication. The skill of complimenting is highly indicative of one's pragmatic competence. Compliments perform different functions, from increasing social rapport, establishing friendly relationships, expressing admiration and affection, greeting and introducing to showing speaker's envy, disapproval, sarcasm or an intention to flatter the addressee into one own advantage. Therefore, compliments can also be perceived as positive or negative face threatening acts, depending on which aspect of the interactant’s face they might harm. A lot of research has been done in order to investigate functional, semantic, syntactic and lexical properties of compliments, as well as the choice of compliment response strategy. The listed features of compliment use practice vary with the gender and the cultural framework of the interactants. This case study examines how the use of compliments and compliment responses has been presented in British and American mockumentary sitcoms The Office and The Office: An American Workplace. The corpus was comprised of the first season of each television series and examined in order to extract compliment utterances. These were analysed in term of functional, semantic and syntactic properties, as well as the choice of compliment response strategies. Findings were compared in order to detect cultural and gender-based variations. The representation of differences in compliment use practice in the analysed sitcoms constitutes an important aspect of the protagonists’ characterisation and contributes to achieving humorous effect.
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Language	english
URN:NBN	urn:nbn:hr:142:723190
Study programme	Title: Engleski jezik i književnost (dvopredmetni); smjerovi: nastavnički, filološki, prevoditeljski Study programme type: sveučilišni Study level: diplomski Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Study programme	Title: Pedagogija (dvopredmetni) Study programme type: sveučilišni Study level: diplomski Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra pedagogije (magistar/magistra pedagogije)
Type of resource	Text
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