@article{article_508018, title={Communicating Culture through Online Compliments}, journal={Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences}, volume={12}, pages={17–31}, year={2018}, author={Dörtkulak, Funda}, keywords={Functions of compliments,the relationship between compliments and culture,language on social media}, abstract={<p>Over the last decades, the expressive speech act of compliments has been the focus in <br>quite a few studies. Most of these studies focused on the structural patterns and/or <br>the topics of compliments. However, the excessive use of social media tools and the <br>increase in the use of compliments in these settings made it necessary to dig into the <br>cultural elements in compliment exchanges and analyse how the faces of self and the <br>other are co-constructed paying the compliment and responding to it because this <br>new mode of communication creates a setting where boundaries are vanished and <br>borders are blurred in interpersonal communication. This cross cultural <br>understanding can help understand how culture comes into being in online language <br>use. Compliments in online interaction have become an important research area in <br>different languages. However, the number of such studies is still quite very limited. <br>This leads to overgeneralized misconceptions on compliments which undermine the <br>cultural load of this speech act. This study, using a bilingual corpus made up of 200 <br>compliments collected from 100 participants, analyses the cultural elements in <br>compliment exchanges and discuss how these cultural elements reflect themselves in <br>Turkish and American English using quantitative and qualitative data analysis. <br> </p>}, number={1-2}, publisher={Cankaya University}