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Compliment Responses among Malaysian Multilingualse functions depending on the value system of a particular community (Sifianou 1999: 52). Aside from creating solidarity (Manes and Wolfson 1981: 130, Herbert 1986: 77, 82), compliments are also used to seek information (Jaworski 1995, Sifianou 2001), make indirect requests (Holmes 1995, Sifianou 200

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Sociopragmatic Variation in Native Speakers’ and ESL Learners’ Requestsects of second language learners’ (henceforth L2 learners) pragmatic competence (Scarcella 1979, Blum-Kulka et al. 1989, Trosborg 1995, Schauer 2007, 2009, Economidou-Kogetsidis 2008, 2010, Lin 2009, Economidou-Kogetsidis and Woodfield 2012, Bella 2012). Following Leech (1983) and Thomas (1983), pra

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The Role of Gender in Taiwan and Mainland Chinese Complimentsand Japanese have been comparatively underexplored. The present study aimed to expand the scope of the VP literature by examining the role of gender in the ways that compliments are given in two varieties of Chinese, that is, Taiwan and Mainland Chinese.