A Study of Compliment Response Strategies Employed by Vocational High School Students in Taiwan

臺灣高職生回應讚美語所使用的策略探究

陳麗閔(Li-Min Chen) ； 王萸芳(Yu-Fang Wang)

《興大人文學報》 51期 (2013/09) Pp. 227-254

摘要

本研究藉由「語篇補全測試」，以四大主題設計八大日常生活情境，調查台灣高職生的讚美回應語。本研究共有79位高職生，針對8個情境及不同性別，提供他們認為最適當的社交回應方式。研究結果發現「修正」策略是高職生最常使用的讚美回應策略。此結果顯示，台灣年輕族群正處於一個由謙虛準則到接受準則的過渡階段。研究結果亦發現，性別顯著影響讚美回應語策略的使用。此外，研究結果顯示台灣高職生仍受中國傳統文化規範，但同時又極渴望展現個體的獨特性。因此，充滿創意以及性暗示的讚美回應語似乎成了台灣高職生最夯的獨特回應方式。

關鍵字

性別 ； 讚美回應語 ； 讚美回應語策略 ； 語篇補全測試

並列摘要

The present study investigates compliment responses employed by Taiwanese vocational high school students through use of the Discourse Completion Test (DCT), in which 8 scenarios of daily life events were described with 4 major topics. Seventy-nine subjects were asked to provide the compliment response they found socially appropriate for each scenario and gender. The significant finding of this study is that the subjects reported using amendment strategies the most as their compliment responses, which demonstrates a transition from the modesty maxim to the agreement maxim among Taiwanese young generation on compliment response strategies. The findings also indicate that gender greatly influenced the use of compliment response strategies. Finally, the results suggest that Taiwanese vocational high school students still carry the Chinese traditional cultural norms, but at the same time they value the importance of the ego and have a strong desire to express individuality. It appears that creative and sex connotation compliment responses are in fashion at vocational high school level.

並列關鍵字

gender ； compliment responses ； compliment response strategies ； Discourse Completion Test (DCT)

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