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A Case Study of a Preschool Child’s Compliment Expression Based on Schema Theory

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Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2023)

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Compliments, as an essential type of evaluation expression, are also considered an important factor in assessing pragmatic competence. This paper analyzes how children organize their compliment expressions under the framework of schema theory. It describes the characteristics and developmental trajectory of children’s compliment expression based on the four parts of language schema and 16 types of high-frequency expression. The analysis also reveals a continuity of sentiment strength, indicating that schema patterns differ significantly across various degrees of compliments. This novel approach can not only shed light on the realization of children’s compliment expression but also provide a new avenue for research of speech acts and enhance the accuracy of sentiment analysis in natural language processing.

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This research is sponsored by the National Social Science Foundation of China “A study on the construction and operation of Chinese preschool children corpus” (19AYY010).

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  1. Research Center for Languages and Language Education, Central China Normal University, 152 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, China

    Siqi Xie

  2. Surveillance and Research Center for National Language Resources (Internet Media), Central China Normal University, 152 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, China

    Siqi Xie

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  2. National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

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  3. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Jingxia Lin

  4. Leshan Normal University, Leshan, China

    Peng Jin

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Xie, S. (2024). A Case Study of a Preschool Child’s Compliment Expression Based on Schema Theory. In: Dong, M., Hong, JF., Lin, J., Jin, P. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14515. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0586-3_38

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