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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis is a sociolinguistic study about compliment responses strategies
used by the female basketball players in my club in Surabaya. The compliment
responses I discussed are in daily conversation of Bahasa Indonesia. To find the
strategies of my respondents using those ways, and to find the influence of culture
and custom in using the compliment responses, I take three respondents in my
research. My respondents are my friends in the basketball team; they are Marry, Ann,
and Katty, who have different characteristics. I use a qualitative research to do my
study, in order to observe the topic deeply, not just observing the surface data.
Although my observation is in Bahasa Indonesia, I use Herbert?s theory as the main
theory on the types of compliment responses strategies. In the findings, I can show
that my respondents, who are female, tend to use `no acknowledgement? strategies in
responding to the compliment on ability, and they have their own reason to do that.
While in responding to the compliment on appearance, they tend to use `praise
upgrade? strategies, as their special characteristics of the basketball players who live
in a `mess?. Culture, society, and mood may have influenced people in using the
types of compliment responses. Besides, there are social factors (external factors)
and conditions such as relationship, status, and even internal factors such as mood,
age, which influence them in responding to the compliment. It depends on the
purpose and the intention of the speaker in using the compliment responses
strategies.