“You've Worked with Elizabeth Taylor!”: Phatic Functions and Implicit Compliments
by Ronald Boyle
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Reference:
Ronald Boyle, (2000), "“You've Worked with Elizabeth Taylor!”: Phatic Functions and Implicit Compliments", Applied Linguistics, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 26–46.
Bibtex Entry:
@ARTICLE{Boyle2000a,
  author = "Ronald Boyle", 
  doi = "10.1093/applin/21.1.26", 
  keywords = "Ethnomethodology, Complements, Phatic Communion", 
  journal = "Applied Linguistics", 
  number = "1", 
  pages = "26–46", 
  title = "“You've Worked with Elizabeth Taylor!”: Phatic Functions and Implicit Compliments", 
  url = "http://applij.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/1/26", 
  volume = "21", 
  year = "2000", 
}