20.500.12556/DKUM-94773 Offering food and alcohol in Chinese and English a contrastive pragmatic perspective In this paper, we compare conventions of offering food and alcohol in Chinese and English. We define offering as an interaction ritual because in many linguacultures, food and drink are offered by following certain conventions, the observing of which is a ritually sacred duty for the host. Foreign residents in China are often irritated by Chinese conventions of offering food and drink. We try to explain such irritations by investigating how Chinese and ‘Western’ offering conventions differ from one another. Our framework brings together speech acts and interaction ritual theory. We first present relevant experiences of English-speaking foreigners living in China. We then conduct a contrastive pragmatic study of English and Chinese food and alcohol offering conventions, followed by an interpretation of the irritations reported by our panel of foreigners through our contrastive outcomes. contrastive pragmatics Chinese English speech acts interaction rituals offering food offering alcohol kontrastivna pragmatika angleščina kitajščina govorna dejanja ponujanje hrane ponujanje alkohola true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2025-08-27 03:50:05 2025-12-19 13:30:05 2025-12-20 03:19:15 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 95-126 št. 1 Letn. 21 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 2024-06-24 2025-02-25 81'27 225809411 10.1515/pr-2023-0077 1612-5681 RAZ_House_Juliane_2025.pdf RAZ_House_Juliane_2025.pdf 1 67DD935CB97C150AA78651FA111BFB35 1fee220f782e786337666b88f3c24b54f59ee6d6df15d4c21a8c81f4d17d052c 6f2c4bd7-dcdc-11f0-a44c-00155d580e02 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201584 https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2023-0077 0 ebf8a9c8-dcd6-11f0-a44c-00155d580e02 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201576 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0