2.1Compliment formulae (Manes/Wolfson 1981: 120–123; results by Rose 2001)
2.2Felicity conditions for Positive Remarks, compliments and positive assessments
2.3Response categories following Pomerantz (1978)
2.4
Herbert’s (1989) distribution of compliment Response Strategies
2.5Distribution of the Response Strategies used by Americans (Chen 1993 and Schneider 1999)
2.6Connection of compliment formulae and response distribution (Sims 1984: 99)
2.7Frequency of compliment topic and compliment response function (Sims 1984: 110)
2.8Positive Remark abbreviations in the working model
3.1Conversations chosen from the Santa Barbara Corpus of spoken American English
4.1Levels of pragmatic analysis (Schneider/Barron 2008: 19–21)
4.2Coding of references in the PosR sequence
4.3Syntax patterns 3, 4, 6, and 8 (Manes/Wolfson 1981)
4.4Combination of syntax patterns 3, 4, 6, and 8 into a supercategory
4.5Syntax patterns 1 and 9 with their positive semantic core
4.6Rearrangement of the syntax patterns into four supercategories
4.7Formulaic overview of sequence organization
4.8Preliminary grouping of Response Strategies according to the function of the Positive Remark
4.9Response Strategies in Positive Remark sequence
4.10Groupings of Response Strategies: preferred strategies
4.11Groupings of Response Strategies: dispreferred strategies
4.12Structural categories of turns following a Positive Remark
4.13Overlap and parallel conversation coding
4.14.Types of listener responses (O’Keeffe/Adolphs 2008: 74–80)
4.15Sentence types and functions
4.16Topic categories and samples
5.1Comparison of the percentages for AmE compliments
5.2Syntax patterns of the four supercategories
5.3Total numbers of PosR supercategories
5.4Topics of the Positive Remark supercategories in the present data (overall sequences and individual utterances)
5.5PosR categories and distribution of their responsive turn categories
5.6Substrategies of opting out in the tuoth_non-addressee turns
5.7Substrategies of opting out in the tuoth_addressee turns
6.1General description of reference in subcategories
6.2Numbers and examples of _adj_ realizations
6.3Realization patterns of subcategory _A1_
6.4Realization patterns of subcategory _A2_
6.5Forms of listener response
6.6Realization patterns of subcategory _A3_
6.7Realization patterns of subcategory _A4_
6.8Realization patterns of subcategory _A5_
6.9Interactional structure of _adj_ and its subcategories
6.10Numbers and examples of the _noun_ realizations
6.11Realization patterns of subcategory _N1_
6.12Realization patterns of subcategory _N2_
6.13Realization patterns of subcategory _N3_
6.14Realization patterns of subcategory _N4_
6.15Realization patterns of subcategory _N5_
6.16Interactional structure of _noun_ and its subcategories
6.17Numbers and examples of _verb_eval realizations
6.18Realization patterns of subcategory _V1_
6.19Realization patterns of subcategory _V2_
6.20Realization patterns of subcategory _V3_
6.21Realization patterns and numbers of subcategories _V5a_ and _V5b_
6.22Realization patterns and numbers of subcategories _V4_ and _V6_
6.23Interactional structure of _verb_eval and its subcategories
6.24Turn organization of the supercategories
7.1Comparison of Positive Remark and compliment distribution inresearch
7.2Distribution of address terms in the respective supercategories
7.3Usage of subcategories in respective supercategory
7.4
opting out distribution (TUOTH only)
7.5
explaining distribution (TUOTH only)
7.6
agreement distribution (TUOTH only)
7.7
agreement distribution in _adj_ subcategories (TUOTH only)
A.1Abbreviations used
B.1Listing of appendix tables from Appendix B
B.2Overview compliment research
B.3Selected studies on Response Strategies based on Pomerantz (1975, 1978).
B.4List of intensifiers
B.5Detailed account of Response Strategies in Positive Remark sequences
B.6Structural features of utterances in PosR sequences
B.7Distribution of Response Strategies
B.8Distribution Response Strategies and topic
B.9Interactional structure of the subcategory pron/det_head verb(int) adj.
B.10Distribution of Response Strategies used in _adj_ subcategories
B.11Distribution of Response Strategies used in _noun_ subcategories
B.12Distribution of Response Strategies used in _verb_eval subcategories
B.13Response Strategies distribution in _adj_ tuoth_non-add
B.14Response Strategies distribution in _adj_ tuoth_add
B.15Response Strategies distribution in _noun_ tuoth_non-add
B.16Response Strategies distribution in _noun_ tuoth_add
B.17Response Strategies distribution in _verb_eval tuoth_non-add
B.18Response Strategies distribution in _verb_eval tuoth_add
B.19Address in PosR
B.20Wordlist of chosen texts (top 20)