Complimenting Routines in English and Learner English
Complimenting is a tool that can be used to establish friendship. It also is an important social strategy for many a time it acts as an opener for a conversation and later facilitates meaningful social communication to follow. Neglecting to give compliments could even be understood as a sign of disapproval. Moreover, the inappropriate use of compliments may cause embarrassment and even offense in many cultures.
There are many factors that determine how non-native speakers of (L2) respond to compliments when compared with native speakers (L1). Some of these factors are; schemata, speech events, socio-cultural norms and linguistic etiquette. Schemata is a pre-existing knowledge involving things. L2 speakers who had been learning the language for a longer period of time responded differently to the more recent learners of the language. A lot of the long term speakers of L2 had managed to acquire a lot of the correct......
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