A Contrastive Study of Compliment Responses among Australian English and Iranian Persian Speakers

Abstract

This study aims at conducting a contrastive study of compliment responses (CR) among Australian English and Iranian Persian speakers within the framework proposed by Chen-Hsin Tang and Grace Qiao Zhang (2009). The data of the study was collected by giving a series of written discourse completion tasks which contained four situational settings (appearance, character, ability, and possession) to a group of Iranian university students. Then, it was analyzed using Holmes' (1988, 1993) classification of compliment responses. The findings of this study were compared with the results of the study carried out by Tang & Zhang (2009).