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Opis: In this study, we propose an integrative approach to Small Talk by bringing together routine and ritual, and also by approaching Small Talk through the lens of ritual, speech acts and discourse. Routine manifestations of Small Talk include banal phatic interaction, such as weather talk which follows conventionalised patterns, has limited bonding ca pacity and no deeper meaning. Ritual Small Talk, on the other hand, refers to phatic interaction which also follows conventionalised patterns but has a deeper purpose and meaning, and has a more lasting bonding capacity. We analyse a corpus featuring shop talk in a rural Chinese town, hence filling a knowledge since Small Talk in rural settings has been understudied. We conduct a bipartite analysis, i.e. we first consider how in teractions in our corpus tend to be opened and closed, and then we analyse our data through Small Talk themes. Our analysis shows that in Chinese rural shops routines do not simply dissolve when the participants become more familiar, but rather they transform into ritual. This finding shows that Small Talk in the setting studied operates differently from what has been observed in urbanised contexts.
Ključne besede: applied linguistics, Chinese, English, small talk, routine, interactions, ritual, rapport, rural shops, China
Objavljeno v DKUM: 26.09.2025; Ogledov: 0; Prenosov: 1
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Opis: In this paper, we explore how and why the realisation of the ritual act of congratulating may turn out to be challenging for foreign learners of Chinese. Congratulating and other ceremonial ritual acts are not only used when someone participates in an actual ritual event: they are also required when they are mentioned in mundane events, like casual interactions when someone talks about a family birthday or wedding. We define congratulation as an interactional move and systematically examine its conventional realisation patterns through a typology of speech acts. We approach congratulating moves by combining a speech act-anchored analysis with the field of study abroad and interaction ritual research. The results of our analysis show that various ritual occasions may trigger different types of inappropriate uses of congratulating by foreign learners of Chinese.
Ključne besede: Chinese, interaction rituals, speech acts, study abroad, congratulating
Objavljeno v DKUM: 20.02.2024; Ogledov: 445; Prenosov: 30
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