Abstract
Abstract
There has been ongoing research contrasting online vs. Face-To-Face (FTF) interactions for more than a decade.
This study fills the gap in the literature considering FTF vs. online contexts by comparing the norms and patterns of
complimenting in Persian and explores the complimenting strategies, syntactic patterns, and internal and external modifiers used
in each setting. The corpus included 366 FTF compliments related to the topic of appearance. Findings demonstrated that in both
settings explicit and formulaic compliments are used more frequently than implicit and non-formulaic ones. However, implicit
compliments in FTF interactions were less prevalent than those in online settings. FTF compliments did not show the same level of
creativity as the online ones did and a more diverse set of adjectives were used in online vs FTF compliments. Finally, the paper
provides implications for further research.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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