Komplimente in Erstkontaktversuchen von Polen am Beispiel des Dating-Portals sympatia.onet.pl Eine linguistische Analyse
Compliments in First Contact Messages of Poles on the Dating Website sympatia.onet.pl. A Linguistic Analysis

Summary/Abstract: Alongside the increasing number of people looking for their life partners on the Internet, there is also a significant growth of interest among linguists regarding the behavior of dating website users. The main aim of this article is to analyze the ways that people make contact in this specific context. The key issue addressed by the author in her article, is to study the use of compliments in first contact messages sent by users of a well-known Polish dating website sympatia.onet.pl. The analysis has covered 17% of 100 messages from Polish male users to female users of the website, i.e. such messages that contained compliments. The characteristics of morphological, syntactic, lexical structure (especially the focus (HERBERT 1990) in the compliments) and the objects of compliments, is the subject of the analysis, based on examples found in this study.

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