A Study of Compliments from the Perspective of Discourse Strategies

This book is dedicated to deepening the study of compliments from the perspective of discourse strategies. And its relevant theoretical framework is consisted of prosody in conversation and context of discourse.The essential items to be addressed in this book contain the followings:the effect of compliments differentiates even with a slight change of prosodic features such as stress,intonation and paralinguistic features; the exactly same compliments in daily life can change its meaning under different contexts;how compliments are transformed as discourse strategies and play the corresponding roles in the successful realization of communicative purposes under different features of prosody.