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Publication details [#28889]

Ylänne-McEwen, Virpi. 1993. Complementing behaviour: A cross-cultural investigation. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 14 (6) : 499–508.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complimenting | crosslinguistic perspective | language and culture | language variety | response

Language as a subject

English, British | Finnish

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper explores the complimenting and responding-to-compliments behavior in three language varieties, namely British English, Finnish and the interlanguage of English learning Finnish.