Muhammad Husin Al Fatah , 2201407075 (2011) Compliment Responses Used by Students of English Department of Semarang State University. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This final project is a pragmatic study about compliment responses of the students of English Department of Semarang State University to respond to English compliments based on the compliment situation given. The data were collected using a discourse completion test (DCT) used to elicit compliment responses of the participants of the study. The data were analyzed using Tran‟s framework (2007). If the responses do not fit into Tran‟s framework, it will be classified as a new classification. There were 600 responses from 60 participants divided into three groups of twenty freshmen, sophomores, and juniors respectively. The results of this study showed that the students of English Department of Semarang State University used various types in responding compliments given. From fifteen types of Tran‟s compliment framework (2007), I found thirteen types of compliment responses, they are compliment upgrade, agreement, appreciation token, return, explanation, reassignment, non idiomatic, compliment downgrade, disagreement, expressing gladness, follow up question, doubting question. Appreciation token was the most frequently used in all situations given in this study, while non idiomatic response was the least response used. There was no participant who responded the compliment by using non idiomatic and disagreement token.

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