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Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media
New contexts and new insights
The present volume focuses on complimenting behavior, including the awarding of (self-)praise, as manifested on social media. These commonplace activities have been found to fulfil a wide range of functions in face-to-face interaction, discoursal and relational amongst others. However, even though the giving of compliments and praise has become a pervasive practice in online environments, it remains a largely underexplored field of study within pragmatics. Self-praise is an activity that appears at the present time to be rapidly gaining ground online, and the various functions it performs clearly also need further investigation. The different contributions to this ground-breaking volume – 12 in total – aim to address this gap in research by exploring and shedding light on a number of aspects of these phenomena in a range of languages and language varieties. New socio-digital contexts are examined, supported in some cases by social networking sites not previously studied in complimenting behavior research. These include Facebook, Instagram, Renren, Twitter, as well as web forums, message boards and live text commentary.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 313] 2020. xi, 315 pp. + index
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 November 2020
Published online on 26 November 2020
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- List of contributors | pp. vii–x
- Acknowledgements | pp. xi–xii
- IntroductionMaría Elena Placencia and Zohreh R. Eslami | pp. 1–18
- Part I. Complimenting behavior among friends and family
- Chapter 1. A comparative study of compliment responses among Chinese Renren users and American Facebook usersZohreh R. Eslami, Lu Yang and Chang Qian | pp. 21–48
- Chapter 2. “Gracias pana”: A glimpse into Ecuadorian male compliment responses on FacebookAmanda Lower | pp. 49–72
- Chapter 3. “Pero… y las caritas esas, ¿cómo se ponen?”: Age effects on Facebook compliments in Peninsular SpanishCarmen Maíz-Arévalo | pp. 73–98
- Chapter 4. “Tu masssss ❤ te amo”: Responding to compliments on Instagram among Ecuadorian teenage girlsMaría Elena Placencia and Hebe Powell | pp. 99–120
- Chapter 5. Compliment response behavior among Japanese-English bilinguals on FacebookMarina Ruiz-Tada, Marta Fernández-Villanueva and Elsa Tragant | pp. 121–142
- Part II. Complimenting behavior and praise in the political domain
- Chapter 6. Complimenting behavior in Spanish political discourse on TwitterAna Pano Alamán | pp. 145–164
- Chapter 7. #Lovely country, #wonderful people: Diplomatic compliments and praise on TwitterRoni Danziger and Zohar Kampf | pp. 165–186
- Part III. Complimenting behavior and self-praise in health, sports and fitness domains
- Chapter 8. The interpersonal effects of complimenting others and self-praise in online health settingsMarie-Thérèse Rudolf von Rohr and Miriam A. Locher | pp. 189–212
- Chapter 9. Healthy lifestyle, dieting, fitness and bodybuilding: Compliments in the context of Polish online discussion forums and message boardsAnna Bączkowska | pp. 213–236
- Chapter 10. “I want your brain”: Complimenting behavior in online Over by Over cricket commentaryDermot Brendan Heaney | pp. 237–262
- Chapter 11. Compliments in congratulatory tweets to Spanish Olympic athletesMaría Isabel Hernández Toribio and Laura Mariottini | pp. 263–286
- Part IV. Perception of self-praise
- Chapter 12. Modified self-praise in social media: Humblebragging, self-presentation, and perceptions of (in)sincerityMufan Luo and Jeffrey T. Hancock | pp. 289–310
- Name index | pp. 311–312
- Subject index | pp. 313–315
“This volume has contributed to different fields of research such as socio- and intercultural pragmatics as well as intercultural pragmatics, and also to the broad field of TMC. This publication constitutes an up-to-date and welcome addition to the field of pragmatics and should be of interest to graduate students, advanced undergraduates and scholars engaged in pragmatic research.”
Jianhong Wu, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, in Journal of Pragmatics 180 (2021)
“This book is particularly helpful for students and researchers in linguistic pragmatics, politeness research, cross-cultural communication, and technology-mediated communication.”
Mian Jia, The University of Texas at Austin, and Yi An, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, in International Journal of Communication (IJoC) 15 (2021)
“This volume is a valuable contribution to the field. It is a recommended reading to researchers interested in discourse analysis and social processes occurring in unison in online communicative situations, as well as to those interested in complimenting behavior research. The ability of the editors to impeccably mix ground-breaking methodological approaches to complimenting behavior and (self-)praise in different interactional domains with perceptual analysis of different online communicative situations in a diversity of languages and language varieties provides a timely tool for those interested in the study of linguistic and communicative capabilities across social media. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the collection, it should be of help to researchers with a multidisciplinary agenda, including but not limited to sociolinguistics, pragmatics, register studies, complimenting behavior research, discourse analysis, communication studies, and socio-digital studies.”
Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana, Louisiana State University, in Pragmatics and Society 15:2 (2024).
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