Dear Participant,
My name is Wen Hao, the project researcher. I am currently doing a research for an academic project in pragmatics. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the EFL＆ESL acquisition on the Compliment Response (CR) of Chinese learner in the perspective of intercultural pragmatics transfer.
If you agree to participate in my study, you will be asked to complete a questionnaire containing several compliment situations which should take between 20 and 30 minutes to complete.
For this questionnaire is designed for a linguistic research, any of your response is considered acceptable for further analysis and study.
Thank you for your precious collaboration and assistance in this research.
What language do you speak as your native?
How long have you stayed in the English speaking country?
No, I haven't gone abroad.
Less than six months
Six months to one year
One year to two years
More than two years
Apart part from your native language and English, what other languages have you learned about?
For the English native speaker, write down languages except for English.
What is you major field of study? (For students, please write down your major＆grade, i.e English，junior)
You mother buy you a shirt as your birthday gift. You really like it. The next day, you hang out with your friends in this shirt. When you guys meet, one of your friends approaches you and said, "Your shirt is so pretty. It looks great on you!"
You recently take part in a competition, in which your group needs to give a presentation at the end. Your team members elect you delegate of the group to present it. After the presentation, one of your team member approaches you and say to you, that “You don’t know how amazing you are! I thought you would be nervous, but all I have seen in you are poise and elegance!”
Your professor assigned you to write a story as the final paper. You spent much energy and time on it, from which you expect a high grade. Days later, the professor spoke highly of your story in his class. He said, that “You really have the flair for writing! The language is natural, the plot attractive, really worth reading!”
You happen to meet your old friends, who you haven't seen for a couple of years. And your friend said to you, that" you look really nice, even prettier/more handsome than we met last time."
You moved into the new house you've just bought. One of your friends dropped by, and you showed your friend around the house. After that, your friend said to you, that "what a nice house!"
There are several responses to compliments below. Now you need to rank them in order of priority: which one are the most likely response you would reply?
A. Thank you, I also felt really enjoyable.
B. Thank you, if only I could do better!
C. Oh, really? I guess it is only the average.
D. Thank you, and I think I could do better.
E. How kind of you! You could do even better than me.
F. It is just so so. I should practice more.
What are the compliments that you are most likely to evade?
Compliment of appearance
Compliment of performance
Compliment of virtues
Compliment of possession
None of the above
What are the compliments that you are most likely to accept?
Compliment of appearance
Compliment of performance
Compliment of virtues
Compliment of possession
All of the above
None of the above
Under what circumstance will you apply the response "oh, it is really just so so." when receiving a compliments?
You think your performance is just okay
You just try to be modest
You felt you actually don't do it well
Others
When you apply "thank you" in respond to a Compliment, often you use it to...
Show your appreciation of their compliments and you will further discuss it
Show your modest and will later down grade the compliment.
Serve as a phatic word(仅为交际） and you may shift to another topic
Avoid embarrassment and for politeness noly
Others
When you apply "I am really flattered" in respond to a compliment, often you use it to...
Show your modesty and in return praise the complimentee
Serve as a phatic word only
Show that the compliments overwhelms you and you are really happy to hear that.
Show kind of suspicion that the complimentee may want something from you
Others
Thank you for filling the questionnaire! Here, you are encouraged to write something about your suggestion about this questionnaire.