Silvie Válková: Regulating Discourse: Compliments and Discourse Signposts. English-Czech Interface. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken 2012, 296 s.

Abstract

The review comments on the publication which is oriented at compliments and discourse markers in Czech and English. It also deals with didactic applications.

The author of original publiaction deals with politeness.

Keywords

• compliments
• discourse signposts
• positive face
• politeness