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participants, an implicit and ‘detouring’ approach was at least as desirable 
as an explicit CR. This was in line with modesty and collectivism—pillars 
of Chinese culture. Australians on the other hand prefer using explicit 
CRs. Other results showed that the Chinese participants used far fewer 

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combination strategies than the Australians, indicating that the Australians 
made more effort when responding to compliments. 
Other research was conducted by Ngoc (2011), entitled 
Gender 
Based Differences in Compliment and Compliment Responses in the 
American Comedy TV – Series “Ugly Betty”. 
The aim of this research was 
to differentiate the compliment behavior and compliment response 
strategies in American English between males and females. The data were 
collected from the ten episodes in the first season of the American 
Comedy TV series “
Ugly Betty”. 
The results showed that there were 
significant differences between males and females in giving compliments 
and using the response strategies. Females tended to compliment other 
females more whereas males complimented females far more than they 
complimented other males. In terms of functions, females used 
compliments most often to establish, confirm or maintain solidarity while 
male compliments more often offered admiration. The findings of the 
differences in response type frequencies from the two groups revealed that 
there was more likelihood of a non-agreement than agreement. 
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Research Method
This study uses of descriptive qualitative method which conducted by 
collecting data, classifying data, analyzing data and drawing conclusion. The 
data are the utterances that contained compliment topics in 
The Romantic 
Movies manuscript. Technique of collecting data is documentation. The 
object of the study is compliment topics uses Holmes’s theory (in Paulson 
and Tucker, 2003) conducted on pragmatic analysis found in 
The Romantic
movies manuscript.