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This study examines compliment responses (CRs) among American undergraduates and Korean undergraduates with high English proficiency. The data was gathered through the instrument of written discourse complement tasks (DCTs), with four situational settings: appearance, character, ability, and possession. A total of 120 undergraduates from both countries participated in the study from mid-December until late December, 2010. The findings demonstrate that even Korean undergraduates with high English proficiency have a high tendency of using fewer Accept strategies, and more Evade and Reject strategies than the American undergraduates do. This means that the Korean undergraduate participants use an indirect approach in response to compliments, preferring modest strategies to CRs, which is because of cultural influences; their counterparts, on the other hand, prefer using direct CRs. This indicates that the participants from both cultural backgrounds use different compliment protocols, and CRs in both cultures vary in meaning respectively.
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1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1 Overview of politeness theory
2.2 Brown and Levinson's politeness and face theory
2.3 Leech's politeness principle
2.4 Gu's Politeness Principle
3. Methodology
3.1 Participants
3.2 Instrument design
3.3 Data collection
3.4 Data Analysis
4. Findings and discussions
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