Refusing Offers In Chinese Asian Culture
Chinese Refusals - The Center for Advanced Research on Language ...
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Aug 22, 2018 .Chinese speakers express their intention not to comply with the interlocutor's proposed action plan, indicating "no" in a polite way. This type of negative response is sometimes referred to as "substantive refusal". However, in Chinese, speakers are generally not supposed to accept an invitation or an offer right away. They should normally refuse several times before accepting. Such refusals are termed as "ritual refusals" and are almost obligatory in Chinese.
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Cross-Cultural Differences in the Refusal to Accept a Small Gift: The ...
https://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/management/faculty.../cross_cultural_gifting.pdf
by H Shen - Cited by 94 - Related articlesNov 8, 2010 -
Asians are more likely than North Americans to refuse a small gift that is offered to them ....
These differences can lead representatives of different cultural backgrounds to misinterpret the intended implications of one another’s behavior. Consequently, they can have an adverse effect on interpersonal relations (Brislin, 2009). One potential source of misunderstanding surrounds the exchange of gifts. The offer of a gift and its subsequent acceptance or rejection are forms of social communication, and the interpretation of these behaviors, like other communication, is governed
by norms and values that vary over cultures and social groups.
Thus, for example, an individual’s offer of a gift to another is likely to be guided in part by the expectation that the gift will be appreciated. However, when recipients expect that if they accept
the gift, they are obligated to respond in kind, they may reject the offer. The failure to understand one another’s motives and reactions in such a situation could create hard feelings and damage the
personal relationship between the individuals involve
Giving a reason is probably the most commonly used refusal strategy in response to requests, suggestions, and invitations. However, in response to offers, giving a reason is not the most commonly used strategy. Refusing an offer actually minimizes the offerer's costs and is least likely to hurt the offerer's miánzi. Therefore, reasons are probably not required as much as in refusing requests, suggestions, and invitations.
(PDF) An Intercultural Communication Study of Chinese and ...
https://www.researchgate.net/.../271313366_An_Intercultural_Communication_Study_o...
Mar 31, 2015 - of insistence after refusing an invitation. aim is to seek the respondents' perception in the process of refusing an invitation regarding their cognition, language of thought, and perception of insistence after refusing an invitation. The subjects were selected from forty Chinese international students and forty Malaysian students at University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. Data were collected through a written discourse completion task and an immediate structured post-interview. An analysis of the data demonstrated that both Chinese and Malaysian respondents used similar type of strategies when refusing an invitation; however, they were different in terms of the number of strategies (i.e. frequency) used in each situation. It is hoped that the present research will not only make contributions to the studies of refusal behavior in the intercultural communication in general but to the pragmatic behavior of refusal to invitation between Chinese international students and Malaysian students in particular.
Theorizing Refusal: An Introduction — Cultural Anthropology
https://culanth.org/articles/817-theorizing-refusal-an-introduction
by C McGranahan - 2016 - Cited by 38 - Related articlesOur collective of scholars writing on refusal for Cultural Anthropology includes ... refusal in the United States, citizenship refusal by Tibetan refugees in South Asia, ... or lack but also as an insistence on a certain sort of grounding in the world.
The Challenges of Caring for Aging Asian Parents | Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/.../culture.../the-challenges-caring-aging-asian-pare...
Jan 31, 2017 - Ever wonder why aging Asian parents have such power over their ... t wasn’t until our son called us in Beijing while he was visiting my parents for Thanksgiving that we realized something was really wrong. He was alarmed because Gamma kept trying to speak to him in Korean, even though she knew he couldn’t speak a word. When he repeatedly asked her to speak English, she just talked louder in Korean. When my father got on the phone, he claimed that reverting back to one’s mother tongue was perfectly normal for older people, insisting that all of his Korean friends did the same thing. “She just tired. Beside the fact her English is not so good anyway…”
Etiquette in Asia - Wikipedia
Etiquette in Asia varies from country to country even though certain actions may seem to be ... Eating is a dominant aspect of Chinese culture and eating out is one of the most common ways to .
Chinese Refusals - The Center for Advanced Research on Language ...
carla.umn.edu/speechacts/refusals/chinese.html
Aug 22, 2018 .Chinese speakers express their intention not to comply with the interlocutor's proposed action plan, indicating "no" in a polite way. This type of negative response is sometimes referred to as "substantive refusal". However, in Chinese, speakers are generally not supposed to accept an invitation or an offer right away. They should normally refuse several times before accepting. Such refusals are termed as "ritual refusals" and are almost obligatory in Chinese.
[PDF]
Cross-Cultural Differences in the Refusal to Accept a Small Gift: The ...
https://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/management/faculty.../cross_cultural_gifting.pdf
by H Shen - Cited by 94 - Related articlesNov 8, 2010 -
Asians are more likely than North Americans to refuse a small gift that is offered to them ....
These differences can lead representatives of different cultural backgrounds to misinterpret the intended implications of one another’s behavior. Consequently, they can have an adverse effect on interpersonal relations (Brislin, 2009). One potential source of misunderstanding surrounds the exchange of gifts. The offer of a gift and its subsequent acceptance or rejection are forms of social communication, and the interpretation of these behaviors, like other communication, is governed
by norms and values that vary over cultures and social groups.
Thus, for example, an individual’s offer of a gift to another is likely to be guided in part by the expectation that the gift will be appreciated. However, when recipients expect that if they accept
the gift, they are obligated to respond in kind, they may reject the offer. The failure to understand one another’s motives and reactions in such a situation could create hard feelings and damage the
personal relationship between the individuals involve
Giving a reason is probably the most commonly used refusal strategy in response to requests, suggestions, and invitations. However, in response to offers, giving a reason is not the most commonly used strategy. Refusing an offer actually minimizes the offerer's costs and is least likely to hurt the offerer's miánzi. Therefore, reasons are probably not required as much as in refusing requests, suggestions, and invitations.
(PDF) An Intercultural Communication Study of Chinese and ...
https://www.researchgate.net/.../271313366_An_Intercultural_Communication_Study_o...
Mar 31, 2015 - of insistence after refusing an invitation. aim is to seek the respondents' perception in the process of refusing an invitation regarding their cognition, language of thought, and perception of insistence after refusing an invitation. The subjects were selected from forty Chinese international students and forty Malaysian students at University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. Data were collected through a written discourse completion task and an immediate structured post-interview. An analysis of the data demonstrated that both Chinese and Malaysian respondents used similar type of strategies when refusing an invitation; however, they were different in terms of the number of strategies (i.e. frequency) used in each situation. It is hoped that the present research will not only make contributions to the studies of refusal behavior in the intercultural communication in general but to the pragmatic behavior of refusal to invitation between Chinese international students and Malaysian students in particular.
Theorizing Refusal: An Introduction — Cultural Anthropology
https://culanth.org/articles/817-theorizing-refusal-an-introduction
by C McGranahan - 2016 - Cited by 38 - Related articlesOur collective of scholars writing on refusal for Cultural Anthropology includes ... refusal in the United States, citizenship refusal by Tibetan refugees in South Asia, ... or lack but also as an insistence on a certain sort of grounding in the world.
The Challenges of Caring for Aging Asian Parents | Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/.../culture.../the-challenges-caring-aging-asian-pare...
Jan 31, 2017 - Ever wonder why aging Asian parents have such power over their ... t wasn’t until our son called us in Beijing while he was visiting my parents for Thanksgiving that we realized something was really wrong. He was alarmed because Gamma kept trying to speak to him in Korean, even though she knew he couldn’t speak a word. When he repeatedly asked her to speak English, she just talked louder in Korean. When my father got on the phone, he claimed that reverting back to one’s mother tongue was perfectly normal for older people, insisting that all of his Korean friends did the same thing. “She just tired. Beside the fact her English is not so good anyway…”
Several months later, my father finally agreed to have Gamma evaluated by a geriatric neurologist. But when I arrived from Beijing to take her to the doctor’s, my father announced he had cancelled her appointment because he had decided there was nothing wrong with her! When I somehow managed to convince him otherwise, I couldn’t get an appointment for her for another six weeks. I was beside myself with frustration, having made the nearly 19-hour trip from Beijing several times already in the past few months. But to complain would have been against Confucian rules of behavior, and besides, it would have made Dad so angry that I knew he would just cancel her appointment again.
When at last Gamma was diagnosed with “euphoric dementia,” which I was told occurs in roughly four percent of dementia patients, my father’s frustration and impatience with her suddenly disappeared. The knowledge that she had early stage Alzheimer’s seemed to change him overnight into a solicitous and loving caregiver, although he wasn’t always realistic about her increasing limitations.
Etiquette in Asia - Wikipedia
Etiquette in Asia varies from country to country even though certain actions may seem to be ... Eating is a dominant aspect of Chinese culture and eating out is one of the most common ways to .
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- It is a faux pas to accept a gift when it is first offered and the giver is expected to offer it multiple times (usually 3 times). Gifts are generally not opened in the giver's presence.[13]
- Hosts typically insist that guests keep eating. One needn’t eat much, but should at least taste a bit of everything on the table and express appreciation for the taste and quality.
