Who/where/when – Field – CA
Pomerantz (1978) used a conversation analytical approach to investigate compliments and compliment responses (Response – Field – CA). She quotes an impressive collection of compliment sequences from actual conversations but she does not offer any statistics on the frequencies of the different sequences and therefore her data do not allow any generalizations about who compliments whom in which specific situation.
Golato (2005) also uses a conversation analytical approach to investigate her data of German compliments. Her work is based on “30 hours of non-elicited videotaped face-to-face conversations and 6 hours of audiotaped telephone conversation between close friends and family members” (Golato 2005: 24). She does not discuss the demographics of the complimenters and the recipients, except in connection with the topic of the compliment.