Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN (Dec 2014)

Types of indirect compliments in Russian and Vietnamese communicative cultures

  • - Nguyen Thu Huong

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 1
pp. 19 – 25

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The article studies compliments as speech acts in Russian and Vietnamese communication and discusses the usage of some types of indirect compliments in the communicative cultures of the two. A comparison showing their similarities and differences and frequency in their usage in cross-cultural communication has also been undertaken.

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