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This study explores compliments given by judges to contestants on the TV talent show . A total of 120 comments from the third season 2014–2015 were analyzed for compliment types, structures, lexicon, and supportive remarks. Spenser-Oatey’s (2000, 2002, 2005a, 2005b, 2008) rapport management theory was employed to determine how judges managed rapport with contestants through compliments. The analysis shows that the majority of judges’ compliments on the show were that were based on three syntactic patterns and four types of positive semantic carriers conveying complimenting adjectives, verbs, nouns, and adverbs. A smaller category of involved such strategies as , , and . Both categories were typically qualified by supportive or weakening elements such as , , and , resulting in a third category of . The study shows that rapport management accounts to a large extent for the judges’ complimenting behavior.

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Keywords: sociality rights ; quality face ; compliments ; rapport management ; identity face ; interactional roles

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