Сompliment responses in Bulgarian
Сompliment responses in Bulgarian

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I have analysed compliment responses in Bulgarian and assigned them to different categories, drawing upon previous research on compliment responses, predominantly in English. I have suggested five broad categories of response strategies: acceptance, rejection, deflection, other interpretation and combination strategies. Based on a quantitative analysis of a corpus of naturally occurring compliments and responses, I have argued that acceptance is the preferred second part in a compliment–compliment response adjacency pair. This paper offers an analysis of the types of compliment responses in Bulgarian, including ambivalent responses. It also aims to work out the preference structure of compliment exchanges in Bulgarian. The analysis makes use of a corpus of 192 naturally occurring compliment exchanges collected through the method of fieldnote taking.

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