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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study about compliment-giving is conducted to find out what topics
that are used and most occurred on the "CERIWIS", a talk show program on
TransTv. Since there are 2 presenters whose gender are female and male, the
writer of the present study is interested to investigate what topics of compliments
are preferred by each gender, and whether there are any similarities or differences
between them in giving compliments to their female and male guests (artists).
This research was a qualitative research. The writer got the data from 5 episodes
of the talks show program. She transcribed the conversations among the
presenters and their guests. Then she classified the topics of compliments. Finally
she analyzed and calculated the data to answer her research questions. The
findings show that the female presenter uses four topics of compliments, namely
ability, appearance, possessions and speech act whereas the male presenter only
uses two topics, namely specific act and appearance. The female presenter mostly
compliments the female artists for their appearance and the male artists for their
ability. The male presenter, on the other hand, compliments his guests for their
specific act. However, both presenters had similarity, i.e. they did not comment
much on their guest? possessions.