Proleptic praise: A social function analysis.

What is praise? I argue that we can make progress by examining what praise does. Functionalist views of praise are emerging, but I here argue that by foregrounding cases in which expressions of praise are rejected by their direct target, we see that praise has a wider, and largely overlooked, social...

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Published in:Nous (0029-4624) Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 905 - 927
Main Author: Holroyd, Jules
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2024
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