Publications

Publication details [#21031]

Wolfson, Nessa. 1981. Compliments in cross-cultural perspective. TESOL Quarterly 15 (2) : 117–124.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complimenting | culture

Language as a subject

English, American

Annotation

Analysis of the speech act of complimenting. The semantic and syntactic structure of compliments in American English is described and comparisons are made with complimenting behavior in other cultures.