"We Have a Great Show Tonight!" A Contrastive Study on Compliment Use Among US-American and British Television Hosts of Late-Night Talk Shows

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: How do US-American and British TV show hosts of talk shows differ in terms of compliment use? In what part of the show, how often, on what topic and in which context do they use compliments? This paper aims at answering these questions with a focus on late-ni...