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The Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics /
Compliment
- Elina Weiste
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Description: Compliments are social actions that explicitly or implicitly attribute credit to a recipient (Holmes 1988). Most commonly, they are positive assessments that evaluate the appearance, personal qualities or actions of a co-present participant (Keisanen & Kärkkäinen 2014) but they may also take other forms, such as a question or correction (Shaw & Kitzinger 2012).