Japanese compliment discourse: The process of collaborative construction

• 作者: Kyoko Satoh
• 来源期刊: Journal of Japanese Linguistics
• 关键词: Areas of interests: compliment discourse Japanese collaborative construction discourse analysis
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（1）
• 页码范围: 10-27
• 页数: 18页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1515/jjl-2014-0103

摘要

Following on Pomerantz’s (1978) study, the speech act of compliment has been studied from various aspects. Past studies have been confined largely to examination of a single compliment and its response pair. However, actual compliment speech acts rarely end after one such exchange. Therefore, this paper observes the strategic development of compliment discourse: how compliment discourse, a series of exchanges that include compliments and their responses, develops, recesses, and moves into the next topic. In analyzing the extended speech act, rather than merely compliment response pairs, this research reveals the following developmental patterns: repetition of compliment and response, followed by frame shift to close the compliment discourse. The findings indicate that people collaboratively construct compliment discourse for the purpose of facework, i.e., avoidance of self-praise and agreement with others, and respecting evaluation of evaluation.