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Publication details [#54889]

Rees-Miller, Janie. 2011. Compliments revisited: Contemporary compliments and gender. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (11) : 2673–2688.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complimenting | corpus analysis | gender | university | value

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Drawing on two corpora of compliments among status equals gathered on a small Midwestern university campus in the US in 2008 and 2010, this paper discusses how men and women revealed gendered values via the types of compliments they gave in both unstructured and goal-oriented settings.