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This paper provides a critical literature review of research that has examined gender differences in complimenting behaviour in English and Mandarin Chinese contexts. It first explores the functions of compliments in social life and describes the syntactic patterns and topics characterising the compliments of women and men, and then compares different types of complimenting responses used by English and Mandarin Chinese speakers. Finally, the paper discusses different interpretations of the findings offered by researchers, and identifies some research gaps for further in-depth analysis in this area.
Sun Nan (Tue,) studied this question.