Publications

Publication details [#6484]

Manes, Joan and Nessa Wolfson. 1981. The compliment formula. In Coulmas, Florian, ed. Conversational routine: Explorations in standardized communication situations and prepatterned speech. Mouton. pp. 115–132.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

complimenting | formulaic expression

Language as a subject

English, American

Annotation

An analysis of 686 compliments gathered through observation of everyday interactions reveals that the compliments in American English are formulaic in nature.