“Oh My God, You Look Gorgeous”. Polite but Inappropriate? A Gendered Exploration of Compliment Perceptions Among Young Irish Adults
Set against the backdrop of the #metoo movement which has positioned inter-gender communication as a “locus of struggle” (Watts, 2003, p. 21) with respect to what constitutes appropriate means of communication, the current study aims to shed light on how young Irish adult females and males aged 18-2...
Main Authors: | Anne Marie Devlin, Sarah Marnane |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
2021-11-01
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Series: | Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/693 |
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