| Title: | Analysing sympathy from a contrastive pragmatic angle : a Chinese-English case study |
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| Authors: | ID House, Juliane (Author)
ID Kádár, Dániel Z. (Author)
ID Cang, He (Author) |
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| Files: |  RAZ_House_Juliane_2025.pdf (1,65 MB)
MD5: 8C3C6524639137C3DBD1FED6921FCDF8
 https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2023-0205
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Scientific work |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | applied linguistics, Chinese, English, sympathising, speech acts, ritual, interactions |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Article acceptance date: | 05.02.2024 |
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| Publication date: | 23.02.2024 |
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| Publisher: | de Gruyter Mouton |
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| Year of publishing: | 2025 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 849-875 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 16, št. 2 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-96101  |
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| UDC: | 81'33 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1868-6311 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 191774467 |
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| DOI: | 10.1515/applirev-2023-0205 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 24.02.2026 |
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| Views: | 152 |
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| Downloads: | 1 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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