Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2009 The cquia sition of pragmatic competence: compliment response strategies in learners of Spanish James Bryant Smith Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations Part of the Linguistics Commons Recommended Citation Smith, James Bryant, "The ca quisition of pragmatic competence: compliment response strategies in learners of Spanish" (2009). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 2569. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/2569 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please
[email protected]. THE ACQUISITION OF PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: COMPLIMENT RESPONSE STRATEGIES IN LEARNERS OF SPANISH A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy In The Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics by James Bryant Smith B.A., University of Southern Mississippi, 2003 M.A., Louisiana State University, 2005 December 2009 DEDICATION This dissertation is dedicated to the faculty and students, past and present, of the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics at LSU. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would first like to thank my parents for their support throughout my academic career. Without their patience and understanding in this long process, you would not be reading this dissertation. I would also like to thank my friends for their emotional support, especially Molly Kimble (Campbell), Rebecca McNair-Calissi, Marty Johnson, Britton Jones, Dr.