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Publication details [#35013]

Herbert, Robert K. 1990. Sex-based differences in compliment behavior. Language in Society 19 (2) : 201–224.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complimenting | gender | sociology | women's vs. men's language

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper examines gender-based differences in the form and response types of English compliments and discusses the findings within a broader framework of male-female speech differences and the sociology of compliment behavior.