The Chinese Context Praised Response Study

In the past four decades, the response of compliment has been the focus of research on language; research has been involved in pragmatics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, cross-cultural communication and other fields. But most of them are based on English culture; the research in the Chinese Context is still inadequate. The current research of compliment response behavior on Chinese are based on self-examination style more than the qualitative discussion and lack of evidence base; In spite of a few empirical studies, research results to differ materially. In addition, as the Chinese society has been changed in economic, political, cultural, values and other profound, the traditional language usage patterns are also different. Among them, the change on response strategies of compliment is the most remarkable, but so far little research has involved. Therefore, the social theory and methodology of linguistics are applied in the compliment response of the Chinese context and the changing patterns of variation is also used in the description, a more comprehensive understanding of the overall distribution of Chinese compliment response strategies and their preferred mode of different social groups.In this paper, the principle of cooperation, politeness, face theory, variation theory are the framework for the study. There are differences on different gender, age, educational level in the complement response of Chinese policy between social groups. The research establishes two kinds of variables: the social variables and linguistic variables. Social variables including gender, age and educational level; language variable is Compliment Response Strategies. Correlation exists between the two systems interact.In this paper, four research questions: 1. What is the overall tendency for native Chinese speakers to respond to compliments; 2. Do men and women respond to compliments differently? If so, what are they? 3. Do people of different age respond to compliments differently? If so, what are they? 4. Do people of different educational level respond to compliments differently? If so, what are they? Quantitative and qualitative research methods combined. To "judge sample" of 198 selected from different gender, age, education level of Chinese native speakers as subjects through discourse completion test, access, and natural observation to collect corpus, the Chi-square test using SPSS for quantitative analysis; from qualitative discussion of sociolinguistic perspective.Results show that the current compliment response strategies of Chinese and the traditional patterns are different: 1. Chinese compliment responses of receiving are more than the rejected; implicit acceptance is the preferred strategy. 2. More women than men tend to explicitly accept; while men more likely than women to direct refusal. 3. The younger the more likely to accept clear, the older the more likely a direct refusal. 4. The group of higher level of education tends to explicitly accept the group of lower level of education is more inclined to direct refusal.This study systematically investigated the response of Chinese praised speech act, from a social point of view of linguistics, expanded the scope of application of variation theory, and reveals the social and cultural factors in the important role of language use, and better cross-cultural exchange, while Teaching Chinese to Foreigners also have a reference value.