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Troubles with assessments in gifting occasions
journal contribution
posted on 2016-03-10, 10:15 authored by Jessica RoblesThis article analyzes gift-exchange occasions as both a sequentially organized activity and as a ritual practice imbued with social and cultural meaning. Specifically, the article focuses on the
role of assessments in gifting sequences, the distribution of assessments across participants, and some of the possible troubles which can arise in doing assessments of gifts based on discourse
analysis of 44 gifting situations in one family’s 30 home videos spanning 13 years. I argue that participants encounter difficulties in the process of proffering assessments of gifts, and that such troubles revolve around the dilemma of constructing positive assessments as authentically given.
The analysis discusses the organization of action in gifting occasions, outlines the expectations and dilemmas involved in doing assessments of gifts, and presents participants’ discursive practices for
managing potential troubles in gift assessment.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
Discourse StudiesVolume
14Issue
6Pages
753 - 777Citation
ROBLES, J., 2012. Troubles with assessments in gifting occasions. Discourse Studies, 14(6), pp. 753-777.Publisher
© The Authors. Published by SAGE PublicationsVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2012Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Discourse Studies and the definitive published version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445612457490ISSN
1461-4456eISSN
1461-7080Publisher version
Language
- en