COMPLIMENT AND PRAISE AS MANIFESTATIONS OF EMPATHY IN SPANISH

Abstract

This article shows the importance of empathy in Spanish communication, describes compliment and praise as culturally conditioned verbal ways of expressing empathy in Spanish and Russian and their role in dialogic communication. The author Observes genre differences between these two types of replicas within rejectlog approach. The examples are taken from the novel by modern Spanish writer Torcuato Luca de Tena “Los renglones torcidos de Dios”. The author makes conclusion about the necessity of studying communicative functions of compliment and praise in teaching a foreign language to avoid failures in communication.