Abstract
The purpose of this research is to investigate the type of speech acts young people use when evaluating others. It is necessary for foreign students living in Japan to communicate with Japanese students and they need to understand how the Japanese students communicate each other. The trend of how they communicate can be seen based on the speech acts they use while evaluating someone. However, the speech acts they use are complicated that it might be a trigger of a friendship discord. Therefore, this research is to clarify the popular speech acts types. The speech acts were divided into four groups following Brown and Levinson's “politeness strategies” and it was proved that the young people tend to use positive strategies such as "jokes" or "empathy" speech acts.
