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Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media: New contexts and new insights
Edited by María Elena Placencia and Zohreh R. Eslami
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 313] 2020
► pp. 313–315

Subject index

A

  • advice column 190, 195–197, 207
  • affiliation see also facework, compliment functions
    • environment269
    • ambient270
  • Agreement Maxim 25–26, 37, 43, 101, 122, 292
  • Arabic speakers 104, 172, 178

B

  • bulletin boards see message boards

C

  • Chinese speakers 22–23, 26, 31, 37–43, 101, 106, 137
  • compliments
    • and advice-giving 149, 159, 160–161, 194
    • and age 10, 73, 76–79, 85–94
    • and congratulations 3, 5, 11, 14, 158, 191, 216, 226–227, 264–265, 272–273, 283
    • and gender 3, 8, 49, 158, 245
    • and (self-) praise 5–7, 169–170, 191–192 ; see also praise, self-praise
    • definitions 5–7, 25, 146, 169–170, 191, 216, 247, 265, 289
    • diplomatic 173–180
    • direct 147, 216–217, 221–224, 230–231, 249–250, 258, 263, 268–269, 273–279, 274–279
    • direct explicit 251–252
    • direct implicit252
    • explicit 79, 147, 149, 155–157, 160, 195, 216
    • functions 3–4, 88, 146, 148–149, 158–160, 169–170, 176–178, 193–194, 204–206, 230, 256–257, 265, 267–268
    • implicit 79, 147–149, 155–156, 216, 225, 244, 249–250, 268–269
      • indirect 147, 157, 216, 224–225, 268–269, 273–274, 279–282
      • indirect explicit 252–254
      • indirect implicit 253–254
      • multimodal77
      • non-routine 253–254, 258 ; see also routine
      • procedural 158, 160
      • public 168, 170
      • routine 100, 253, 267 ; see also non-routine
      • topics 30, 56, 148, 152–154, 169, 176, 197–198, 228–229, 232–233, 255
  • compliment responses
    • and age9
    • and compliment topic 30, 56, 59–60, 152–153, 233, 255
    • and cross-cultural 3, 9, 22–24, 28–29, 40–42, 101
    • and culture 22–26, 42–44, 101, 123–124
    • and gender 49, 52–53, 107, 127, 158
    • and strategies 33, 36–37, 39, 63, 122
    • and teenagers 100, 108, 117
    • return compliments 51, 61–63, 100, 110–115, 129–130, 135–136
    • taxonomies 31, 51–52, 60–61, 64 110, 129–131
  • computer-mediated discourse analysis 15–16, 146
  • congratulations see under compliments
  • context collapse 171, 175
  • corpus-based methodology 220, 233–234
  • corpus linguistics 196, 234
  • cross-cultural pragmatics244
  • cross-cultural differences 22–23, 29, 38, 40–41, 101
  • culture 9, 81, 171, 180, 245

D

  • digital diplomacy 166–167, 174, 180
  • digital health190 see also e-health

E

  • e-DCTs52
  • e-health 189–190, 194, 204 ; see also health websites
  • e-diplomacy see digital diplomacy
  • emoji 73, 75, 77, 81, 88–90, 94–95, 99–101, 106, 112, 114, 158, 193, 203
  • emoticons 28, 30–38, 55, 61–64, 125–126, 130, 216
  • English
    • American English speakers 22–23, 31–38, 41, 50, 79, 103, 113, 124–125, 146, 177, 192, 217
    • British English speakers 52, 101, 149, 220, 245
    • South African English speakers 244–245
  • expert identity 194–195

F

  • Facebook
    • compliments 73, 76, 92, 156, 191, 216, 244–245
    • compliment responses 31–32, 37, 49–50, 105–107, 121
  • facework 94–95
    • affiliation 150, 160–161, 268–70 ; see also affiliation environment
    • autonomy 150, 160
    • self-facework268
  • forms of address 64–65, 69 ; see also vocatives
  • forums
    • fitness 213, 218, 224
    • health 2, 194, 224
    • online 5, 6, 195, 214
    • web 5, 215
  • functions see under compliments

G

  • gender 3, 8, 77–78, 107, 127, 136, 154, 157–158, 249 ; see also compliments, compliments responses
  • globalization 2, 9, 21, 27, 41–43, 138

H

  • hashtags 149, 158, 270, 278, 300
  • health discourse see under e-health
  • health websites 195–196, 205–206
  • Hebrew speakers172
  • homogenization 27, 42
  • humblebrags 289–296, 300 see also self-praise
    • and impression management 297–298
    • and modesty290
    • and self-presentation 293–297
    • and social judgements 301–303
    • topics294
  • humor 104, 111, 128, 131, 136–137, 205, 245, 255–256

I

  • Instagram
    • compliments 77, 149, 152
    • compliment responses 99–100, 107–108, 110, 113, 117
    • features 102, 300
  • intensifiers/intensification devices 63, 69, 81, 84–85, 88, 147, 149, 203, 217, 222–223, 227–228, 270, 273–279
  • internal modifiers/modification 69–70, 149, 275–276 ; see also intensifiers
  • interpersonal pragmatics 190, 194, 196
  • interviews 124, 196
    • ethnographic104
  • irony 52, 81, 104–105, 159, 257 ; see also self-irony

J

  • Japanese speakers 123–4
  • Japanese-English bilingual speakers 121–2, 126–8, 132–138

L

  • laughter 15, 57, 63, 69, 81, 88, 114–115, 131, 137
  • ‘like’(function)/likes 15, 28, 31–35, 37, 52, 55, 58–59, 61, 63, 67–68, 105–106, 126, 129–130, 132–133, 135, 151, 158
  • live text commentary (LTC) 239–240, 242

M

  • message boards 213–215
  • modesty
    • and cultural values 25–26, 28, 63, 68, 100, 102, 107, 123, 126
    • and humblebrags 290, 299, 304
    • and self-praise 115–116 ; see also humblebrags
    • false modesty 110–111, 115, 290, 297
  • Modesty Maxim 22, 25–26, 37–38, 42–43, 101, 123, 135, 192, 207, 292
  • modifiers/modification 114–115, 149
    • external 55, 62–65, 70, 149, 216, 228, 264
    • internal 69–70, 149, 216, 228 ; see also intensifiers
  • modified orthography see prosodic orthography
  • multimodality see also under compliments see emojis, emoticons, hashtags

N

  • netnography 73, 82
  • non-verbal see under emojis, emoticons, hashtags, prosodic orthography

O

  • online community 8, 22, 24, 84, 125, 214, 243, 246
  • Over by Over commentary (OBO) see sports discourse

P

  • participation framework 247, 249
  • Persian speakers 107, 125
  • piropos 157
  • Polish speakers 213, 217–18, 221–234
  • politeness maxims 25, 101, 122
  • politeness strategies 4, 51, 88, 124–125, 145–146, 150, 168, 242, 245, 256, 267 ; see also facework, relational work
  • political discourse 11, 146, 150, 166–168, 180
  • praise 5–7, 11, 148, 154, 160–161, 167–169, 173–180, 198, 254 ; see also self-praise
  • prolixity 81–82, 92–95
  • prosodic orthography/spelling 114, 149, 157, 216, 228

Q

  • questionnaires
    • discourse completion tasks/tests (DCTs) 26–27, 38, 52, 103, 123–124 ; see also e-DCTs
    • multiple-choice124
    • open-ended103

R

  • relational work 190, 204–205 ; see also facework, politeness strategies
  • Renren 23, 31–32, 35, 37, 105–106, 125–126, 133, 138
  • role-plays 123–124

S

  • self-irony 248, 254
  • self-praise 2, 115–117, 191–192, 197, 200–207, 289–290, 297, 304 ; see also humblebrags
  • sociability 167–168, 173
  • social networking sites 2–3, 23–24, 73, 129, 242, 299
  • solidarity
    • establish and maintain solidarity 101, 113, 167, 256, 295
    • reinforce solidarity67 see also compliment functions
  • Spanish
    • Ecuadorian Spanish speakers 13, 49–50, 57–70, 100, 109–116
    • Mexican Spanish speakers 104–105
    • Peninsular Spanish speakers 52, 73, 76–77, 101–104, 113, 125, 147–148, 153–160, 272–282
  • sports discourse
    • Live Text Commentary (LTC)239
    • Minute-by-Minute (MBM) commentary239
    • Over-by-Over (OBO) cricket commentary 238–230, 240–252, 254–258
  • status updates 122, 126–127, 191, 299–302, 309

T

  • taxonomies see under compliment responses
  • topics see under compliments
  • Twitter 145, 165, 269–271

V

  • vocatives 274, 278 ; see also forms of address