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The present volume focuses on complimenting behavior, including the awarding of (self-)praise, as manifested on social media.These commonplace activities have been found to fulfill a wide range of functions in face-to-face interaction, discoursal and relational amongst others. However, even though the giving of compliments and praise has become a pervasive practice in online environments, it remains a largely under-explored field of study within pragmatics. Self-praise is an activity that appears at the present time to be rapidly gaining ground online, and the various functions it performs clearly also need further investigation. The different contributions to this ground-breaking volume –12 in total – aim to address this gap in research by exploring and shedding light on a number of aspects of these phenomena in a range of languages and language varieties. New socio-digital contexts are examined,supported in some cases by social networking sites not previously studied in complimenting behavior research. These include Facebook, Instagram,Renren, Twitter, as well as web forums, message boards and live text commentary. -- 'backcover'

Discourse analysis --- Social aspects --- Mass communications --- Pragmatics --- Compliments in social media. --- Compliments. --- Praise in social media. --- Praise. --- Social aspects. --- Compliments --- Praise --- Compliments in social media --- Praise in social media --- Social media --- Effect of praise --- Learning, Psychology of --- Psychology --- Etiquette --- Interpersonal relations --- Discourse analysis - Social aspects

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The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. The volume brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings. The number and variety of languages involved both as the first language (e.g. English, Finnish, Iranian, Spanish, Japanese) as well as the target foreign language (e.g. English, French, German, Indonesian, Korean, Spanish) makes the volume specially attractive for language educators in different sociocultural foreign language contexts. Additionally, the different approaches adopted by the researchers participating in this volume, such as information processing, sociocultural, language socialization, computer-mediated or conversation analysis should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the area of second language acquisition.

Language and languages --- Pragmatics --- Second language acquisition. --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Study and teaching. --- Philosophy --- Second language acquisition --- Study and teaching --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Language and languages - Study and teaching --- Pragmatics - Study and teaching --- L2 learning. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- conversation analysis. --- foreign language learning. --- language socialization. --- learning pragmatics. --- pragmatics. --- second language learning. --- sociocultural theory. --- teaching pragmatics. --- testing pragmatics.