Who Is Responsible for Successful Communication?: Investigating Compliment Responses in Cross-Cultural Communication

SAGE Open

Asma Moalla¹ 

关键词: compliment responses;    cross-cultural communication;    universality versus culture specificity;    speakers of AE;    Tunisian learners of English;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244012472686

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

This article attempts to compare aspects of discourse and sociolinguistic competence among speakers of American English (AE) and Tunisian learners of English with regard to the communicative act of compliment response (CR). The two participant groups’ CR strategies were found to be cross-culturally different and were found to be dependent on the participants’ respective cultural backgrounds. In addition, the data collected emphasize the fact that cross-cultural communication is a transactional mutual process and that both native and nonnative speakers of English are equally required to adjust their communicative behaviors to develop intercultural communication. The 30 American students and 30 Tunisian students filled a Discourse Completion Test (DCT) with 8 contextualized situations and sat after that for a semistructured interview. Interviews were audiotaped and transcribed for analysis.

【 授权许可】

CC BY