... closeness of relationship and gender.465 utterances are obtained from the two sets of questionnaires, of which 210 utterances are made by 14 native speakers of English and 255 utterances by 14 ... it can reveal the linguistic strategies used in many contexts in a given language and culture. However, this method seems to be infeasible in Vietnam because Vietnamese people do not want to ... amount of data quickly, creating an initial classification of semantic formulas and ascertaining the structures of speech acts under consideration.” However, a major difficulty in using a DCT...