“He Is No Different from Other Men”: Complimenting and Responding to Compliments through Membership Categorization Practices

This brief analysis examines the interactional practice of complimenting and responding to compliments using MCA. The topic is not new; numerous CA studieshave brought to light how people tend to respond to compliments and how such tendencies can be understood in terms of the sequential organization...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gahye Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2013-05-01
Series:Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/SALT/article/view/1347