‘Luck Talk’ in celebrating the Chinese New Year

Fong, Mary

doi:10.1016/s0378-2166(99)00048-x

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“…This is because the Chinese view external sources of luck, 运气 /yun-qi/ or 'lucky circumstances', as open to manipulation through culturally sanctioned practices (Pritchard and Smith 2004). Critically, this latter formulation of luck is consistent with the ubiquitous cultural practices of Chinese geomancy (Mak and Ng 2005), and "luck-talk" during Chinese festive occasions (Fong 2000) to alter personal fortuity.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…For our purposes, items from previous instruments (the Chinese Superstitious Belief Scale, the Superstitious Beliefs Scale, and the Indigenous Inventory Scale) were selected if they assessed prominent content domains of luck found in the literature (Fong 2000;Huang and Teng 2009;Hernandez et al 2008)-i.e., beliefs in the use of homonyms in speech, superstitions behaviours, crystals, Chinese geomancy, horoscopes, and charms to promote luck. A panel of seven Chinese people from a variety of East and Southeast countries (Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia) then indicated whether the collated items from previous scales were relevant to Chinese people from their own country of origin.…”

Section: Chinese Beliefs In Luck Scale (Cbls)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Chinese Beliefs in Luck are Linked to Gambling Problems via Strengthened Cognitive Biases: A Mediation Test

Lim

Rogers

2017

J Gambl Stud

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Problematic patterns of gambling and their harms are known to have culturally specific expressions. For ethnic Chinese people, patterns of superstitious belief in this community appear to be linked to the elevated rates of gambling-related harms; however, little is known about the mediating psychological mechanisms. To address this issue, we surveyed 333 Chinese gamblers residing internationally and used a mediation analysis to explore how gambling-related cognitive biases, gambling frequency and variety of gambling forms ('scope') mediate the association between beliefs in luck and gambling problems. We found that cognitive biases and scope were significant mediators of this link but that the former is a stronger mediator than the latter. The mediating erroneous beliefs were not specific to any particular type of cognitive bias. These results suggest that Chinese beliefs in luck are expressed as gambling cognitive biases that increase the likelihood of gambling problems, and that biases that promote gambling (and its harms) are best understood within their socio-cultural context.

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Chinese Beliefs in Luck are Linked to Gambling Problems via Strengthened Cognitive Biases: A Mediation Test

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Rogers

2017

J Gambl Stud

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“…From this perspective, speaking in a particular situation is associated with many factors in context. This framework is used in addressing such issues as who is involved in the encounter and where it takes place (Agyekum 2008;Duranti 1995;Fong 2000;Saville-Troike 1989Scollon & Scollon 2001). Duranti (1995) adopted a speech event approach in the description of Samoan.…”

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“…Application of the framework to sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology can be found and a variety of speech activities and acts are investigated. Fong (2000) applied Hymes' model to analyze the Chinese cultural event 'Luck Talk' for the New Year. Different components of the event were identified.…”

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Korean Interpretations of Western Business Meetings: The Language of Cultural Differences

Hahn¹

2010

J. Univers. Lang.

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As language education focuses on a variety of units associated with interaction as well as linguistics, it now covers a wide range of skills from grammatical and linguistic to interactional and social competence. This is reflected in the diverse situations and compartment specified in English-teaching activities. This study focuses on business meetings to examine and evaluate how Korean students perceive Western style business meetings. To understand the learner's perception of business meetings, this study employs an analytical framework (Hymes 1974) to take into consideration components accompanied in speech activities. In terms of methodology, questionnaires are drawn up to involve components of business meetings based on Hymes' speaking model. In this study, eleven components are investigated such as settings, ends, act sequences, and key. In many instances, social hierarchy is present in Koreans' consciousness with regards to business communication indicating they are influenced by different cultural values. This study has implications for teaching business communication in English to show cultural interpretation of Western style meetings. Findings of the study provide social and cultural features associated with speaking in the business context. It seems necessary for language 30 Korean Interpretations of Western Business Meetings instructors to help learners they must be aware of differences between cultures and how that would affect how it is being taught or learned. In addition these features are always changing and that must also be taken into consideration.

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“…This framework is used in addressing such issues as who is involved in the encounter and where it takes place (Agyekum 2008;Duff 1995;Fong 2000;Maduell 1994;Saville-Troike 1989;Tusda 1984). To understand communicative behavior, I focus attention on the situation in which the speech occurs, identifying the characteristics of individual speakers.…”

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Cultural Translation of Debate in Korean

Hahn¹

2009

J. Univers. Lang.

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Transformational processes of borrowed speech activities are addressed since the topic of debate. Debate is rooted in Western political discourse, and is now situated in Korean discourse. This study examines debate in order to understand the concept and rules of speaking which govern that activity. Considering the popularity of debate in Korean, particularly in educational domains, it seems only natural to see how Korean language/culture compares with and has modified a Western-oriented activity. The motivation of this current study is as a response to a prior lack of effort to look at language from a broader context. This study attempts to apply the ethnography of communication to debate proposed by Hymes (1964;1972;1974). From the ethnographic approach to communication, speaking is inseparable from the context in which it takes place. The need to examine contextual factors is taken into consideration, and a set of components are identified to study language in use (i.e. setting, participants, keys, and norms). In this view, debate is analyzed as a cultural product. Findings reveal certain diverse features of 'Koreanized' debate. The language of Korean debate in expressing disagreement tends to be indirect. While agreement is directly expressed, disagreement is likely to be realized by means of disarmers and prefacing statements. The expression of oppositional opinion also becomes longer. 36 Cultural translation of debate in Korean

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‘Luck Talk’ in celebrating the Chinese New Year

Cited by 41 publications

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Chinese Beliefs in Luck are Linked to Gambling Problems via Strengthened Cognitive Biases: A Mediation Test

Chinese Beliefs in Luck are Linked to Gambling Problems via Strengthened Cognitive Biases: A Mediation Test

Korean Interpretations of Western Business Meetings: The Language of Cultural Differences

Cultural Translation of Debate in Korean

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