A Contrastive Study Of Korean And Chinese Compliments

Compliment is the speaker for praise or compliment material objects to make a positive favorability rating or representation, thus exercising the evaluation function of speech acts. And by the behavior of others compliment, praise the advantages of an object or objects to praise the performance of intimacy and affection, and then play a role in strengthening the bonds of human relationships.Korean and China relations for thousands of years, through a lot of cultural exchange,Korea and China have a lot of similarities. But Chinese belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family, Korean Altaic,in different languages Compliment response should be a lot of different points.For the majority of responses, Compliment studies have stayed at what Compliment answer mode is often used, what percentage of this stage.Although able to correctly select the type of response Compliment, but inappropriate expression, can not say that the dialogue was a successful exchange. Because language is used as a means of communication, in order to maintain and develop the social composition of members of the community, people use language and build social relationships. Therefore, the people in order to maintain good relations with others and achieve their needs, using the best means of expression.By collecting drama lines, according to different themes and objects, collation and analysis of data. On this basis, in this paper, under the theme of praise and praise objects of different situations, by analyzing the characteristics of Korean language Compliment responses and characteristics of Chinese language Compliment response, noting similarities and differences, and to analyze reasons.