Interpersonal involvement in discourse: Gender variation in L2 writers' complimenting strategies

This article reports on the use of complimenting as an involvement strategy in peer-review texts. The analysis explores how L2 writers vary their complimenting style according to gender of addressee. The data base is a set of 35 peerreview papers written by advanced L2 women writers. Four compliment...

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