A Pragmatic Study On The Speech Of Invitation In Chinese

Invitation is a common & typical language phenomenon in oral communication. By using some methods of discourse analysis,this thesis intends to make an all-round analysis from the point of view of Pragmatics.The result reveals that conversation process is of negotiation, there are two general sequential patterns of invitations in Chinese context:single adjacency pair and multi-adjacency pair.Of the multi-adjacency pair,there are pre-invitations,core sequences,insertion sequences and response sequences. According to the character of the process, there are two forms:question-solve and decline-persist.And an analysis is focused on the strategies of core,assistance and response.At last,an investigation is carried out into the realization of invitation.The result partically proves that power,social distance etc. play an important role in the choice of inviting strategies.