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References consulted in creating this module:

Achugar, M. (2001). Piropos as metaphors for gender roles in Spanish speaking cultures. Pragmatics, 11, 127-37.

Achugar, M. (2002). Piropos: Cambios en la valoración del grado de cortesía de una práctica discursiva. In Placencia, M. E. & Bravo, D. (Eds.), Actos de habla y cortesía en español (pp. 175-92). Munich, Germany: LINCOM Europa.

Alba-Juez, L. (2001). Some discourse strategies used to convey praise and/or positive feelings in Spanish everyday conversations. In Campos, H., Herburger, E., Morales-Front, A. & Walsh, T. J. (Eds.), Hispanic Linguistics and the Turn of the Millennium: Papers from the 3rd Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 364-80). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Hernández-Herrero, A. A. (1999). Analysis and comparison of complementing behavior in Costa Rican Spanish and American English. Kañina, 23, 121-31.

Kryston-Morales, C. (1997). The production of compliments and responses in English by native Spanish speakers in Puerto Rico: An intercultural pragmatics study. New York University. (UMI No. 9810491)

Lorenzo-Dus, N. (2001). Compliment responses among British and Spanish university students: A contrastive study. Journal of Pragmatics, 33, 107-27.

Valdés, G. & Pino, C. (1981). Muy a tus órdenes: Compliment responses among Mexican-American bilinguals. Language and Society, 10, 53-72.

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