Fishing for compliments: Precision and recall in corpus-linguistic compliment research

Jucker, Andreas H.; Schneider, Gerold; Taavitsainen, Irma; Breustedt, Barb

doi:10.1075/pbns.176.15juc

In:Speech Acts in the History of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 176] 2008
► pp. 273–294

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Fishing for compliments: Precision and recall in corpus-linguistic compliment research

Published online: 10 April 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.176.15juc

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