Compliment responses among British and Spanish university students: A contrastive study

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 107-127

  Lorenzo Dus, N ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compliment responses; Intercultural communication; Irony; Linguistic politeness; Relational procedural solidarity; Speech acts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041813031     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00127-7     Document Type: Article

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