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by Didi Sukyadi Fiftinova Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

SOCIOPRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF COMPLIMENTS AND COMPLIMENT RESPONSES: THE CASE OF AMERICAN AND INDONESIAN IDOL. by Didi Sukyadi Fiftinova Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. Background. Cultures and gender are suspected to influence the nature of compliments presented.

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  1. SOCIOPRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF COMPLIMENTS AND COMPLIMENT RESPONSES: THE CASE OF AMERICAN AND INDONESIAN IDOL by Didi Sukyadi Fiftinova Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

  2. Background • Cultures and gender are suspected to influence the nature of compliments presented. • American and Indonesian Idols are entertainment programs in which compliments to distant relationship frequently happen. • Different from traditional format, in Indonesian and American Idol, judgment is explicitly given.

  3. Compliments: theories • are influenced by social status • from someone higher in position goes in the form of encouragement • From someone lower in position tends to be in the form of appearance

  4. Gender differences • Women are frequent recipient possession of compliments regardless of their status. • Holmes (1988) states that women give and receive significantly more compliments to each other than they do to men or men do to each other

  5. Compliments are used: • for establishing solidarity, replacing greetings or apologies, opening and sustaining conversation, or reinforcing desired behavior. • to soften face-threatening acts such as apologies, requests and especially criticism (Brown & Levinson 1978).

  6. Responding to compliments • can be verbal and nonverbal behavior (facial expression, gesture, or body language) such as smiles (Holmes, 1987). • In Indonesian culture smile shows pleasure, acceptance, friendliness and situation-shooting. In American culture it shows friendliness. • Verbal compliment responses may include acceptance, rejection, mitigation, no response, and request interpretation

  7. Methodology • Population: American Idol season 7 and Indonesian Idol season 5 both the commentators and the contestants. • Participants: 3 commentators of each program (American and Indonesian Idols) and the top 8 contestants (4 males and 4 females) • Length of observation: two weeks of performance. • Data: all utterances of the commentators and the competitors. • Source of Data: from the recorded video which was downloaded from www.i-tune.com and from watching and audio taping the show every Friday on 8 p.m. in RCTI. • Non-verbal behavior such as smile, body language and gestures that support the compliments and responses were observed and noted.

  8. Findings • American tends to give more compliments and more expressive than their Indonesian counterparts.

  9. Expressiveness

  10. Types of Compliments • Most of commentators gave compliments to the contestant’s ability such as “Great performance”, “You’re fantastic” or “That was the best performance I’ve ever heard”. • The emergence of two other topic compliments (appearance and personality) was not so often used by the speakers because Idols program is merely a singing competition. • This reality is different from daily life context in which the topic of appearance will come first.

  11. No difference in compliment topic

  12. Topics of Compliments

  13. Appearance • Female American commentators offer more compliments on appearance • Male American commentators seldom give comments of one’s appearance but on contestant’s ability. • Female American commentator compliments not only woman’s appearance (“You look beautiful”) but also man’s appearance (“I like your hair cut”).

  14. Compliment response:Indonesian • Indonesian people have a tendency to accept compliments. • “Thank You” (Appreciation Token) • “Okay, okay” (Comment Acceptance); • “Saya akan berusaha keras lagi (Comment Acceptance); • “Ini yang saya nanti-nanti” (Comment Acceptance). • ”Gara-gara Mas Andy Riyanto, keren banget aransemennya” (Comment History). • smile and gestures when responding to compliments.

  15. Compliment responses: American • They did not choose acceptance only (“Thank You”). • reject (“I thought no, that’s not good”), • give return (“Your hair looks great Paula”) • give no response. • Similar to Indonesian, more expressive nonverbal gestures found in American Idol are smiling, jumping, punching hands, or other kinds of body language.

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