20.500.12556/DKUM-96101 Analysing sympathy from a contrastive pragmatic angle a Chinese-English case study In this study, we provide a replicable language-anchored framework for capturing expressions of sympathy in interaction, by contrasting Chinese and English sympathising behaviour. Our framework combines interaction ritual and speech acts, and it captures sympathising without associating it with one particular speech act from the outset. Methodologically, we follow a tripartite design: First we identify puzzlements which ritual sympathising can trigger for Chinese expatriates living in the US and American expatriates in China. We then conduct Discourse Completion Tests (DCTs) to identify conventions of sympathising in the two linguacultures. Finally, we interpret our expatriates’ puzzlement through the outcomes of the DCT analysis. applied linguistics Chinese English sympathising speech acts ritual interactions govorna dejanja kitajščina angleščina interakcije ritual true false true de Gruyter Mouton Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2025-12-02 03:10:10 2026-02-24 14:54:03 2026-02-25 03:27:57 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 849-875 št. 2 Letn. 16 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 2024-02-05 2024-02-23 81'33 191774467 10.1515/applirev-2023-0205 1868-6311 RAZ_House_Juliane_2025.pdf RAZ_House_Juliane_2025.pdf 1 8C3C6524639137C3DBD1FED6921FCDF8 21bd831eae0fbf71ef84fd52f3fa57ea2f34df01c9bc39f966686596b64f653b 83519726-1188-11f1-a1a6-00155d580e1a https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=203781 https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2023-0205 0 07ca9377-cf24-11f0-9f24-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201023 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0