Ritual in intercultural contact: A metapragmatic case study of heckling

Kádár, Dániel Z.; Ran, Yongping

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2014.12.011

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“…Even translations that, on the surface, seem to be accurate do not necessarily render all of the aspects of the meaning of the original utterance. A relevant example was given by Kádár and Ran (2015), who discussed different ways in which the metalexeme "heckling" is translated and appropriated in Japanese and Chinese: The authors rightly pointed out that the process of translation involves intercultural appropriation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Interpreting Impoliteness: Interpreters’ Voices

Felberg¹,

Šarić

2017

FLEKS

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Interpreting Impoliteness: Interpreters’ Voices

Felberg¹,

Šarić

2017

FLEKS

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“…Notwithstanding this, in offering a perfunctory (Goffman, 1967) thank you to acknowledge the review, the hotel categorises the guest's comments as "impressions". The choice of this metalexeme (Kádár and Ran, 2015) helps to position the guest's experience as subjective. The guest's claims are only mentioned in the second paragraph of the response, showing concern for the client's dissatisfaction, although this is framed as more of an isolated incident (en esta ocasión/on this occasion).…”

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Global Expectations, Local Realities: All-Inclusive Hotel Reviews and Responses on TripAdvisor

Reiter

Downing

Iveson

2023

Contrastive Pragmatics

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In this article we examine online reviews and hotel responses of Spanish hotel chains in two overseas tourist destinations: the Caribbean and Mexico. Drawing on a dataset of 96 hotel reviews we examine the intercultural experience of travellers as mediated by direct or indirect prior knowledge of the tourist destination and subsequent knowledge that results from visiting the host country and interacting with the locals, primarily with resort staff. The analysis shows, on the one hand, the global stance taken by the travellers to construct their reviews where the creation of an “intercultural space” is typically resisted and challenged in favour of expected global standards. The hotels’ responses, on the other hand, are constructed from a local rather than a global perspective. Findings reveal the intercultural tension that arises when lived experience of the specific culture cannot be married with the expectancies of homogeneity created by an increasingly globalised experience of tourism. The article concludes with a discussion of the role of interculturality, as conceived of in pragmatics, in a contemporary era characterised by discontent with digital information systems. It includes a discussion of some of the challenges in deploying the contrastive pragmatics toolkit to capture the intercultural space reported here and the extent to which it allows us to portray interculturality in the present day.

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“…Turning to ritual, the most significant areas for future research include crosscultural and intercultural pragmatic inquiry. There has been little research done on these areas (but see Kádár and Ran 2015), in spite of the fact that ritual practices, in particular those that are normativised below the social level, tend to cause interactional difficulties in intercultural interactions and/or cross-cultural accounts to members of another culture. It is hoped that future research will pursue interest in this area, by exploring ritual practices in a wide variety of languages and interaction types.…”

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confidence: 99%