A Pragmatic Study On Invitation Speech Act Of Donggan International Students In Central Asia

The invitation speech act is much frequently used in our daily life.Inappropriate use or response to invitation is easy to cause emotional barrier and communication failure.With the support of Conversation Analysis and Speech Acts,this study combined with the research results of Searle and Gu Yueguo to define the concept of Chinese invitation behavior and classify the turn pattern and behavior strategies of Chinese invitation speech act.As there is no previous research on Chinese invitation speech of Donggan international students,so this study makes a survey to Donggan international students and Chinese students in the Northwest Normal University by the questionnaires.Referring to the Chinese students,the analysis of the survey results shows that:(1)Donggan international students are prone to pragmatic errors in social address forms,and are not good at using reminders.Polite words also appears to be misused on occasions.(2)Donggan international students seldom use greetings and praising strategies when using the initial invitation.Even in the face of familiar friends,they also use the strategy of exploring possibility too much.(3)Donggan international students prefer conventional strategy when using core invitations.When faced with an equal role relationship,they also use conventional strategy too much to send out invitations,and rarely use indirect reasoning strategy.(4)When Donggan international students respond to the invitation,their words are blunt and their expressions are single.In the face of multi neighborhood dialogue rounds,most of them insist on the first response attitude,and nearly 50% of them can not correctly distinguish the ostensible invitation.Finally,based on the analysis results,this paper analyzes the oral textbooks used by Donggan students,finds that the textbooks have some problems,including the monotonous dialogue scene,single invitation and invitation response strategies,etc.In response to the lack of pragmatic knowledge in the textbooks,we make relevant suggestions to Donggan international students and Chinese language teachers.Chinese language teachers should combine the language knowledge in the textbook with daily pragmatic knowledge;Donggan international students should also develop a pragmatic awareness of Chinese.In the process of communication,they should put Chinese culture first and take the initiative to communicate with Chinese people,only when have a better understanding of Chinese culture can they improve their language communication ability and pragmatic ability.