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Publication details [#58136]

García-Gómez, Antonio and Carmen Maíz Arévalo. 2013. ‘You look terrific!’ Social evaluation and relationships in online compliments. Discourse Studies 15 (6) : 735–760.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complimenting | evaluation | internet | language and culture | social relationship

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines how online social network (like Facebook) users employ compliments to evaluate others and reinforce social relationships in English and Spanish. Despite surface resemblances, the remarkably distinct compliment frequencies reflect profound cultural differences.