This paper uses an analytical model to examine the economics of compliments. Salespersons give compliments to clients. Academics give compliments to other individuals in the field. Employees in a company give compliments to peers and superiors. The central question of this research is who will invest more in a compliment and how does this investment depend on the receiver. In a model of full in...

Today, thanks to the development of pragmalinguistics, interest in study speech genres is growing. The term “phatic”, introduced into science by Bronislav Malinovsky, also attracts attention linguists as a form speech. Fatika short conversation on topic that not directly related transmission information (data) purpose communication, type verbal communication serves only maintain between interlo...