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Original Articles

Shopping in hospitality: situational constructions of customer–vendor relationships among shopping tourists at a bazaar on the German–Polish border

Pages 72-89 | Published online: 15 Feb 2010
 

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of a short customer–vendor dialogue between a German couple and a Polish vendor at a food bazaar on the Polish border with Germany. In this situation, interactants have to negotiate and construct framings of hospitality abroad, customer–vendor relations, as well as intercultural relations. It is assumed that individuals hold their own subjective concepts of these three variables. Using tools from ethnomethodology's membership categorization analysis, this paper will delineate aspects of this constructionist process in which participants make use of concurrent and alternative framings to steer the interaction to a positive end for themselves.

Abstract

Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert ein Verkaufsgespräch zwischen einem deutschen Ehepaar und einem polnischen Verkäufer auf einem Lebensmittelbasar an der polnischen Grenze zu Deutschland. Die Interaktionspartner müssen in dieser Situation Rahmenbedingungen und Umgangsformen zwischen Aspekten grenzüberschreitender Gastfreundschaft, Kundenservice und interkulturellen Beziehungen neu aushandeln und etablieren. Dabei wird angenommen, dass die Beteiligten vorab konstruierte und subjektiv vertretene Vorstellungen dieser drei Variablen in die Situation einbringen. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeichnet diesen Konstruktionsprozess mit Hilfe der Methode der Membership Categorization Analysis aus der Ethnomethodologie nach, in dem die Interaktanten versuchen, das Verkaufsgespräch durch die Einführung alternativer Rahmungen nach ihren Interessen zu gestalten.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Katarzyna Fus und Marcin Sikowski for providing the recording analyzed in this article.

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