Sự Khác Biệt Về Giới Trong Cách Tiếp Nhận Lời KhenIn everyday life, there are a number of speech acts we can choose to show positive politeness, for example, greetings, hanks, friendly address terms and expressions of concern. ―A compliment is one of them, which notice and attend the hearer‘s interests, wants, needs, goods...‖ (Holmes: 1988) Since 1970s, linguists have attached the study of speech act, such as Apology, Request, Compliment & Compliment Response, Refusal and Complaint, etc. These studies show that, the social and situational factors, which will exert their influences on the use of the speech acts, include gender, age, level of education, social distance, social relationship, style, and ethnicity and so on. Compliments, as a positive speech act, will be inevitably influenced by these social factors. Luận văn thạc sĩ ngữ văn Chuyên ngành Ngôn ngữ Anh Người hướng dẫn: TS Hà Cẩm Tâm Tác giả: Hoàng Thị Minh Ánh Số trang: 51 File PDF-TRUE Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng anh Trường ĐH Ngoại Ngữ Hà Nội 2009 Link download http://dlib.vnu.edu.vn/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1014539 https://nitro.download/view/99476187760B3E9https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yLBzZ1rSQoNjmWeJTM6cEZ3WGQHg04L1