Expressing satisfaction in American English and Vietnamese

This cross-cultural study aims to investigate into the positive and negative politeness strategies manifested by Vietnamese and American natives to express satisfaction in different contexts.

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Based on the theories of cross-cultural communication, this study aims at investigating the similarities and differences in expressing satisfaction towards different co-interactants in the Vietnamese and American languages and cultures. It focuses primarily on the popularity of strategies of expressing satisfaction employed. The author takes into consideration such informants’ social parameters as age, gender, marital status, living area, and knowledge of foreign language(s).

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