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Publication details [#28107]
Cordella, Marisa, Heather Large and Verónica Pardo. 1995. Complimenting behavior in Australian speech and Spanish English. Multilingua 14 (3) : 235–252. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0167-8507
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper focuses on type, function and dependence of compliments performed by both English and Spanish speakers of both sexes in an Australian context. The findings show that complimenting depends on social distance between speaker and interlocutor and on the recipient's sex and age.