The Study On Invitation Words In Modern Chinese

Invitation is a common communicative behavior in daily life,and invitation words is the expression form of invitation behavior.It is the words expression sequence for the speaker to do something or to participate in an activity in a certain place for certain communicative purposes.As a kind of speech act,the modern Chinese invitation language has its unique characteristics.This paper takes modern Chinese invitation words as the research object and uses inductive and deductive methods to invest the object according to the related theories in pragmatics,sociology and communication.A speech act is an invitation act when and only if:(a)Speech always involves the actions that the listener will does,and the actions is usually the speaker asks the listener to go somewhere to do something or to participate in an activity;(b)The listener has the ability to carry out what the speaker says;(c)The speaker thinks it necessary to let the listener do somewhere.;(d)Both the speaker and the listener understand that under normal circumstances the listener will not carry out such behavior;(e)This behavior may benefit either party or both;(f)The speaker is really trying to get the listener to act or participate in an activity;(g)The speaker regards the expression of speech as an attempt to implement the invitation.The invitation words of modern Chinese consists of three parts: Core components,Auxiliary ingredients and Additional components.According to the four classification criteria,such as different styles,sincerity,invitation and combination of elements,modern Chinese invitation can be divided into different categories.There are many strategies in the expression process of modern Chinese invitation words.It can be divided into imperative,declarative,inquiry and expression strategies according to the core component.And,it can be divided into seven strategies,such as explanation,possibility,doubt and praise according to the auxiliary ingredients as well.Since the invitation is an interactive communication,it is necessary to do an analysis onthe response to.The invitation reply strategy can be divided into two categories:acceptance strategy and rejection strategy.Verbal communication always comes with a certain context.The difference of context affects the expression of the invitation words of modern Chinese.Gender factors,influential factors and kinship factors in situational context,and the social customs,thinking patterns,values and other contextual factors in cultural context,all of them have exerted a significant influence on the expression of modern Chinese.