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Filipino Reactions to Compliments

The document proposes a social experiment to study how Filipinos react when called beautiful. Researchers will ask random people for permission to take their photo while telling them they find them beautiful. The experiment aims to observe the effects of genuine compliments. It provides background on compliments from literature, defining them as speech acts that attribute credit to others and discussing compliment responses as important to study alongside the initial compliment. The procedure will involve researchers photographing people and recording their reactions to being told the photographers find them beautiful.

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Filipino Reactions to Compliments

The document proposes a social experiment to study how Filipinos react when called beautiful. Researchers will ask random people for permission to take their photo while telling them they find them beautiful. The experiment aims to observe the effects of genuine compliments. It provides background on compliments from literature, defining them as speech acts that attribute credit to others and discussing compliment responses as important to study alongside the initial compliment. The procedure will involve researchers photographing people and recording their reactions to being told the photographers find them beautiful.

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EXPERIMENT PROPOSAL

NAME: CASTILLO, COLICO, DELA CRUZ, DIVERSON DATE:


SECTION: PCAS-06-501A SCHED:

GROUP #4

PROPOSAL # 4

TITLE:

COMPLEMENTING SOCIAL EXPERIMENT: HOW WOULD FILIPINOS REACT TO

SOMEONE CALLING THEM BEAUTIFUL

INTRODUCTION:

What if someone called you beautiful? How will you react? Through this experiment we

will witness how does genuine compliment do some magic.

“Compliment is a speech act that frequently occurs in everyday conversations. It is often

used to start a conversation or to „lubricate‟ the conversational interaction by reinforcing the

rapport between the interlocutors. Jucker (2009) classified compliments into personal

compliments, ceremonious compliments, season compliments and free gift compliments. It is

personal compliment that has aroused great interest in many fields of linguistic studies such as

sociolinguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis. According to Holmes (1986), a compliment

is “a speech act which explicitly or implicitly attributes credit to someone other than the speaker,

usually the person addressed, for some „good‟ possession, characteristic, skill, etc. which is

positively valued by the speaker and the hearer”(p. 485). Searle (1969) pointed out that for a
speech act to be felicitous it must satisfy a certain set of felicity conditions, composed of

propositional act, preparatory condition, sincerity condition and essential condition. The felicity

conditions of compliment were laid out by Thomas (1995): Felicity Conditions of Compliment

Propositional act: some event, act, etc., E related to H. Preparatory condition: E is in H‟s interest

and S believes E is in H‟s interest. Sincerity condition: S is pleased at E. Essential condition:

Counts as a commendation of E or tribute to H. (A: act; H: hearer; E: event; S: speaker) (p. 98) It

would be inadequate to study compliments independently without taking the other half of the

adjacency pair, i.e., compliment responses into account. Compliment response, is defined by

Yuan (2002) as anything that follows a compliment, verbal or non-verbal. Herbert (1990) argued

that “The actual sociology of compliment work cannot be understood without considering

simultaneously the whole of the compliment event” (p.202).”

PROCEDURE/METHOD:

The team will ask permission of random people to take photos of them saying “We are taking

photos of people we find beautiful” While they are being recorded.

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