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Complimentary language is a speech act that caters to positive face needs. Positive face, according to Brown and Levinson, is "the positive consistent self-image or 'personality' (crucially including the desire that this self-image be appreciated and approved of) claimed by interactions". [1]
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A compliment sandwich, [1] praise sandwich, or feedback sandwich is a rhetorical technique to deliver criticism in a way that it is accepted by the criticized person. It is named after the metaphor of a sandwich since it has three parts: [2] Praise of the addressee; Expressing what the speaker dislikes about the person; Further praise of the ...
Swift’s response to compliments isn’t just a childhood saying. She’s stuck with it all her life because it works and, even more importantly, it’s authentic .
Example of compliments slip, 1951. A compliments slip (or with compliments slip) is a slip of paper that contains the same name and address information that would be on a letterhead of formal letter stationery, the pre-printed salutation "with compliments" or "with our/my compliments", and space afterwards for a short handwritten message to be added.
At the beginning of the novel, Isabel's baby is three months old. Reflecting on philosophy and infancy, she muses that Immanuel Kant, "although he would have acknowledged, of course, that each baby should be treated as an end in its own right, and not as a means to an end," would most likely have found babies "too irrational, too messy," whereas her fellow Scot David Hume "would have found ...
[1]: 357 Reasons for calling them pronouns and not determiners include that the pronouns typically inflect (e.g., I, me, my, mine, myself), [1]: 455 while determiners typically allow no morphological change. [1]: 356 Determiners also appear in partitive constructions, while pronouns do not (e.g., some of the people but not *my of the people).
Something of Myself: for my friends known and unknown is the autobiography of Rudyard Kipling. Kipling wrote it in the last year of his life; the unfinished text was prepared for publication by his wife. It has remained in print since its first publication in 1937.