Abstract
In this study, the compliment in the conversation between first-meeting university female students in Korea and Japan were investigated with respect to the frequency of compliments, objects of compliments and response of compliments.<BR> The results are briefly summarized as follows.<BR> First, the frequency of compliment was higher in Japanese conversation than in Korean conversation. For the subjects of compliment, the frequency of personality was the highest in Korean conversation, and then the frequencies of appearance, related matter and ability were similarly high. However, in Japanese conversation the frequencies of the ability and related matter were relatively high. Next, for the response to compliment, the ratio of avoidance was the highest, followed by the negative response in the Korean conversation while the ratio of the negative was overwhelmingly high in the Japanese conversation. However, in both Korea and Japan, there was a common point that positive response did not appear when ability was the subjects of compliment, and positive response appeared when ability was the subjects of compliment.
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