A Pragmatic Analysis of Compliment and Compliment Responses in YouTube Comments开题报告

As the Internet becomes the mostimportant part of life in the 21st century, network language has graduallybecome an important subject of pragmatics. As a new generation of Internetsocial networking platform, video websites also have a unique phenomenon of speechbehavior. As early as 2011, Francisco Yus, a pragmatist, divided socialplatforms such as Twitter into Web2.0 network media, and YouTube, a videowebsite, is of great research value as an updated network media. The15th International Seminar on Pragmatics found a new multimodal study of politenessin this international network environment.

The main conversation of YouTubetook place in the comments and the reply to the commentary. Themost common discourse in the comments is undoubtedly the compliment andcompliment response. Compliment, known as ''sociallubricant'', has always been a popular research topic amongsociolinguists. Compliment, like thanks and greetings, belongs to thecategory of sociolinguistics and is a polite and formulaic speech act. Holmes(1988)holds that compliment is a speech act in which the complimentee evaluatespositively, explicitly or implicitly, the characteristics or appearance,achievement or performance, moral character and skills of the complimentedperson. The use of compliments and their responses reflectsthe behavioral quality and politeness norms of the speaker in reality and isthe external expression of the speaker''s basic quality and linguisticcompetence. From the perspective of the network, it can help us to study howthe speaker compliments others and how the complimentee responds and have abetter understanding of the values, social structure and the languagecommunity''''s perception of the function and meaning of language use.

Since Pomerantz took the lead inthe study of compliments and compliments'' response forms, scholars at home andabroad have studied compliments from different perspectives, such as Herbeg''sstudy of gender differences in the use of compliments and their responses todifferent genders, Lorenzo-Dus, Dumitrescu and others in different languages.Cross-linguistic comparative study, Rose and Ng, Cheng and other scholarsfrom the perspective of second language acquisition on the use of complimentsand their responses by first language learners and second language learners,as well as Xia Shan, Yin Caiyan, Lan Chun from the perspective ofcommunicative participants and so on. Therefore, whether from the perspectiveof its research or from the language involved, the study of compliments andcompliments in response to speech acts can be said to be quite adequate. Atpresent, most of the corpus used in the study of compliment use and responsecomes from natural context or literary, film and television works, whileYouTube, a social platform widely used by the public, has not received dueattention.