... STUDY ON AMERICAN – VIETNAMESE VERBAL EXPRESSIONS IN OFFERING A GIFT AND RESPONDING TO A GIFT OFFER NGHIÊN CỨU GIAO THOA VĂN H A VIỆT – MỸ VỀ CÁCH SỬ DỤNG NGÔN TỪ ĐỂ TẶNG QUÀ VÀ NHẬN QUÀ ... the study on the speech act of gift offering and responding to a gift offer (Ha, N.T.H., 2005) was the main source, and studies on the speech act of offering and responding to an offer (Blum-Kulla, ... have the same educational background. II.4. Coding of the data and mode of data analysis In this study, a response was everything an informant said in responding to a situation in order to...