In:Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media: New contexts and new insights
Edited by María Elena Placencia and Zohreh R. Eslami
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 313] 2020
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 17 December 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.313.toc
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Table of contents
List of contributors
VII
Acknowledgments
XI
Introduction
1
María Elena Placencia
Zohreh Eslami
Part I.Complimenting behavior among friends and family
Chapter 1.A comparative study of compliment responses among Chinese Renren users and American Facebook users
21
Zohreh R. Eslami
Lu Yang
Chang Qian
Chapter 2.“Gracias pana”: A glimpse into Ecuadorian male compliment responses on Facebook
49
Amanda Lower
Chapter 3.“Pero… y las caritas esas, ¿cómo se ponen?”: Age effects on Facebook compliments in Peninsular Spanish
73
Carmen Maíz-Arévalo
Chapter 4.“Tu masssss ❤ te amo”: Responding to compliments on Instagram among Ecuadorian teenage girls
99
María Elena Placencia
Hebe Powell
Chapter 5.Compliment response behavior among Japanese-English bilinguals on Facebook
121
Marina Ruiz-Tada
Marta Fernández-Villanueva
Elsa Tragant
Part II.Complimenting behavior and praise in the political domain
Chapter 6.Complimenting behavior in Spanish political discourse on Twitter
145
Ana Pano Alamán
Chapter 7.#Lovely country, #wonderful people: Diplomatic compliments and praise on Twitter
165
Roni Danziger
Zohar Kampf
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 settings
189
Marie-Thérèse Rudolf von Rohr
Miriam A. Locher
Chapter 9.Healthy lifestyle, dieting, fitness and bodybuilding: Compliments in the context of Polish online discussion forums and message boards
213
Anna Bączkowska
Chapter 10.“I want your brain”: Complimenting behavior in online Over by Over cricket commentary
237
Dermot Brendan Heaney
Chapter 11.Compliments in congratulatory tweets to Spanish Olympic athletes
263
María Isabel Hernández Toribio
Laura Mariottini
Part IV.Perception of self-praise
Chapter 12.Modified self-praise in social media: Humblebragging, self-presentation, and perceptions of (in)sincerity
289
Mufan Luo
Jeffrey T. Hancock
Name index
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Subject index
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