The sequential organisation of gift offering and acceptance in Chinese

Hua, Zhu; Wei, Li; Yuan, Qiming

doi:10.1016/s0378-2166(99)00039-9

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“…Many scholars (e.g. Hua, Li, & Yuan 2000; Good & Beach 2005; Robles 2012; Sicoli 2018) note that gift giving and receiving are sequentially organized: when gifts are given and accepted, receivers recognize and open them, display assessments of the gifts, and express gratitude.…”

Section: Collaborative Eatingmentioning

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Eating together multimodally: Collaborative eating inmukbang, a Korean livestream of eating

Choe

2019

Lang. Soc.

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Mukbang is a Korean livestream where a host eats while interacting with viewers. The eater ‘speaks’ to the viewers while eating and the viewers ‘type’ to each other and to the eater through a live chat room. Using interactional sociolinguistics along with insights from conversation analysis (CA) studies, the present study examines how sociable eating is jointly and multimodally achieved in mukbang. Analyzing sixty-seven mukbang clips, I find that mukbang participants coordinate their actions through speech, written text, and embodied acts, and that this coordination creates involvement and, by extension, establishes both community and social agency. Specifically, recruitments are the basic joint action of eating, as participants, who are taking turns, assume footings of the recruit and the recruiter. The host embodies viewers’ text recruitments through embodied animating and puppeteering. As in street performance, the viewers often offer voluntary donations, and the host shows entertaining gratitude in response. (Mukbang, footing, recruitments, agency, involvement, constructed action, multimodal interaction, computer-mediated discourse)*

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Section: Collaborative Eatingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eating together multimodally: Collaborative eating inmukbang, a Korean livestream of eating

Choe

2019

Lang. Soc.

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“…First, the Koreans and the Chinese frequently downgrade the value of the gift they offer to other people. Gift givers tend to employ belittling expressions such as "small" or "a little" to describe their gift although they, in many cases, spend much money on it (Hua, Wei & Yuan, 2000). In the Chinese data, the offer is often made on behalf of someone else although that "someone else" does not necessarily have ISSN 1948-5425 2014 a role in that offer.…”

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Strategies Employed by the Vietnamese to Respond to Compliments and the Influence of Compliment Receivers’ Perception of the Compliment on Their Responses

Pham

2014

IJL

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This research explores the strategies employed by the Vietnamese to respond to compliments and the influence of compliment receivers' perception of the compliment on their responses. Three hundred and sixty compliment/compliment response sequences were obtained from 120 extended interviews with 126 participants (6 interviewers and 120 interviewees). The conversations were tape-recorded. The interviewees' interpretation of their compliment responses was also recorded. The results show the Vietnamese have a high tendency to reject compliments because they want to be perceived as modest people by the compliment giver. The analysis of the compliment/compliment response sequences and of the participants' interpretation of their responses indicates that responding to compliments in Vietnamese is a complex speech act. Besides three major strategies used in compliment responses (i.e., acceptance, rejection and deflection), there are cases where the two opposite strategies acceptance and rejection appear in the same response. This reflects the Vietnamese tension between modesty/self-denying and self-appreciation. In other words, different principles involved in replying to compliments interact both between responses and within responses. The act of responding to compliments in Vietnamese is also complicated in that the receiver of the compliment can use the same strategy to convey different meanings. For example, in deflecting compliments the compliment receiver tends to shift the praised credit to other people, luck, fate or God to acknowledge their contribution. However, compliment receivers International Journal of Linguistics ISSN 1948-5425 2014 www.macrothink.org/ijl 154 also tend to use this strategy to show themselves to the complimenter as modest and tactful people, especially when they know that their credit shift does not influence the way the complimenter perceives the praised attribute.

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“…This section discusses the conversation analytic approach to gift exchanges which sees them as sequentially-organized. Hua, Wei and Yuan (2000), in addition to looking at gifting as a unique cultural phenomenon in Chinese gift offers and acceptances, also analyze how gift exchanging is sequentially organized in talk. The authors note distinct sequential stages of gift-giving and attendant expectations involved.…”

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Troubles with assessments in gifting occasions

Robles

2012

Discourse Studies

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This paper analyzes gift-exchange occasions as both a sequentially organized activity, and as a ritual practice imbued with social and cultural meaning. Specifically, the paper focuses on the role of assessments in gifting sequences, the distribution of assessments across participants, and some of the possible troubles which can arise in doing assessments of gifts based on discourse analysis of 44 gifting situations in one family's 30 home videos spanning 13 years. I argue that participants encounter difficulties in the process of proffering assessments of gifts, and that such troubles revolve around the dilemma of constructing positive assessments as authentically given.The analysis discusses the organization of action in gifting occasions, outlines the expectations and dilemmas involved in doing assessments of gifts, and presents participants' discursive practices for managing potential troubles in gift assessment. Key wordsGifting, discourse analysis, ritual, morality, assessments, authenticity, alignment, communication dilemmas Assessments in Gifting 3Bio note: Jessica S. Robles (PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder) is a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire. Her research looks at discursive and embodied communicative practices, particularly with regard to morality, trouble and conflict, in various institutional, interpersonal, and cultural contexts. Assessments in Gifting 4 Troubles with assessments in gifting occasionsThe giving and receiving of gifts is a practice which is both ordinary and special, one with its own cultural, social, and relational expectations. Occasions for gift exchange are organized and orderly, yet fraught with assumptions and face demands. This paper analyzes giftexchange occasions as a sequentially organized activity and as a ritual practice imbued with social and cultural meaning. The paper focuses on the role of assessments in gifting sequences, the distribution of assessments across participants, and some of the possible troubles which can arise in doing assessments of gifts. Based on discourse analysis of 44 gifting situations in a collection of one family's 30 home videos spanning 13 years, I argue that gift recipients, givers and onlookers encounter difficulties in the process of proffering assessments of gifts. These include interactional dilemmas, involving choices in what to say and how to say it, as well as sequential concerns with the placement and production of assessments. The care with which assessments are collaboratively constructed, and the trouble participants may confront doing so, indicate an ideal of authenticity which underlies gifting occasions and which is at odds with the social expectation that gifts must be assessed positively.The next section covers the site of the gift-exchange occasion as a ritual practice and a sequentially organized activity, then reviews assessment as central to gifting. The section thereafter outlines the methodological approach, then presents the analysis of examples from 44 giftings, beginning with the sequential...

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The sequential organisation of gift offering and acceptance in Chinese

Cited by 43 publications

References 9 publications

Eating together multimodally: Collaborative eating inmukbang, a Korean livestream of eating

Eating together multimodally: Collaborative eating inmukbang, a Korean livestream of eating

Strategies Employed by the Vietnamese to Respond to Compliments and the Influence of Compliment Receivers’ Perception of the Compliment on Their Responses

Troubles with assessments in gifting occasions

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