20.500.12556/DKUM-94774 Offering gifts in Chinese an interaction ritual approach In this study, we investigate ritual features and strategies of offering gifts in Chinese with the aid of a corpus of naturally-occurring WeChat exchanges. As numerous studies have shown, offering gifts is a fundamental part of daily interaction in Chinese. We investigate offering gifts from a new angle, by adopting an interaction ritual approach which combines ritual, interaction and speech acts. Our analysis has revealed three recurrent features of gift offering behaviour in Chinese: interactionally varying multi-sequentiality, frequency of formulaic expressions, and prevalence of ritual ostensible aggression. We also identified conventional strategies of offering gifts: presenting the gift as a fait accompli, ignoring the refusal, and persuading the recipient. Our study contributes to inquiries into offering gifts behaviour and insistent ritual language use in Chinese. pragmalinguistics offering gifts speech acts Chinese interactional ritual convencional features strategies pragmalingvistika obdarovanje govorna dejanja kitajščina interakcije konvencionalne lastnosti strategije true false true Elsevier Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2025-08-27 03:50:07 2026-01-27 14:00:00 2026-01-28 03:13:05 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 60-77 Letn. 236 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 2024-12-20 2025-01-15 81'27 223065859 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.12.007 0378-2166 RAZ_Kadar_Daniel_Z._2025.pdf RAZ_Kadar_Daniel_Z._2025.pdf 1 F335ADDDC6DCBB36FD58BB829AA6E71D e9909306515d6441dbc24b00cbb1b687d210d09671ccf861b7448fb609319513 87e207dc-fb80-11f0-9c79-00155d00018d https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=202622 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2024.12.007 0 960f7e72-fb80-11f0-9c79-00155d00018d https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=202623 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0