Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21200915
AutoresAli Derakhshan (0000-0002-6639-9339, Golestan University), Zohreh R Eslami (0000-0003-2969-5056, Mitchell Institute), Farzaneh Shakki (0000-0002-2253-0876, Golestan University)
Año2024
Volumen15
Número2
Páginas320-344
Fecha de publicación2024-02-27
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPragmatics and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1878-9714 • E-ISSN: 1878-9722
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ps.22102.der
OpenAlexW4379516363
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas32

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

Creativity · Linguistics · Persian · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology