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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis Thesis is a sociolinguistic study about the compliment responses
between maJes and femaJes in bahasa Indonesia Through this study, the
writer wants to find out whether there are any differences between males
and females in responding to compliments in bahasa Indonesia
As her respondents, the writer takes 12 males and 12 females students
of the faculty of letters who are still in the first up to third semesters. While
in collecting the data, the writer is helped by two friends as her assistants
to state the compliments. The writer follows those two friends in turn and
write down secretly the compliments given by the assistants and the
responses given by the respondents.
The data which have been collected are analyzed based on Herbert's
theory on the types of compliment responses and then the results are shown
on some tables. At the end of the analysis, there is a summary table
containing the overall findings of this research. From that table then the
writer gets her conclusion.
As a conclusion, the writer finds that in Indonesian, males and
females tend to prefer different types of compliment responses. The type of
Indonesian compliment responses most frequently used by males is praise
upgrade, while the type of Indonesian compliment responses most
frequently used by females is scale down.